Painting, And Carpet, And Cleaning Oh MY!

The painting and carpet is finally done. Well, lets be honest- the painting that we had planned to do. Now of course we are in the mode to do the bathrooms, kitchen, etc. But now maybe only one room at a time. Instead of, lets pull up the carpet, paint the entire living room, hallways and our bedroom, change out all light switches, outlets, beezwax the baseboards, clean the light fixtures, blinds and windows, all in a weekend. Seriously, I think we may have pushed it a little. I don't think we thought about how the dogs or Gavin could not be downstairs walking with the tack strips. Trying to keep Gavin cooped up into one room is NOT FUN. The boy needs his space. But in the end, the paint looks great and the new carpet is wonderful, hides everything! I absolutely love my orange walls, they actually make the room come together. I have posted some pics of before and after, what a little paint does for a room! This is our bedroom, pics before, during and after.

The Living Room (With of course pics of Gavin on the VERY TALL ladder, which he was fascinated with and kept trying to climb):

These 2 pics just make me laugh, the one of Greg was taken at about midnight after we had been out for dinner and drinks- but alas, came home to do some more work! The other picture is our dining room, where everything was stashed, it was packed full of crap!

This past weekend we went up to a cabin outside of Jefferson (near South Park) with Mom, Marv and the Alexander's. It was a lot of fun, not such great weather, but we managed to do some rock climbing, jumping on the tramp, running around!

And of course we colored some eggs and ate a ton of chocolate and jelly beans. Gavin was so sick of me putting those ears on him that he has tried numerous times to throw them away. Granted right now, he tries to throw everything in the trash, but especially those darn ears! Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!