Week 8 - Day 50+2 "Mommy's Home"

So sorry everyone for the 2 day late thing. As most of you probably saw on my Facebook we had no power on Sunday for 7.5 hours. So I was not able to do anything. I couldn't weigh, blog or farm. Hehehe...I have issues. It was so darn hot but let me come back to that.

The week started off good. We finally went to Gillespie's Carpet in Fairfield and got our carpet ordered. They said they had to order it from the warehouse so we knew it would be 2 weeks before we had to do anything else. My mom finally came home from Texas on Tuesday. I was anxious all day waiting for time to pass so I could get pick her up. Wednesday was the usual "Fresh Choice Wednesday". So yum. I don't know where it came from but then my husband says, "Lets go to Ashley Furniture and see what kind of deals they have." We had nothing better to do so we did. $1300 later we have a new living room set on the way within in a couple of weeks. Thursday my husband finds out that the carpet is ready and can be installed next week. NEXT WEEK??? Oh crap. We thought we had time to paint and such. Well now we have to kick it into high gear because carpet will be installed on the 1st of July. Oh boy, time to go to Home Depot. Chris made a stop there Thursday afternoon to pick up a bunch of paint samples so I could decide on colors. My inspirations was a few pictures that we have at home with different bible verses. They have a lot of earthy tones. So once I got home Thursday (left early that day) I looked at the samples and made a decision in under 5 minutes. Where is my Staples Button? "That was easy!" So Chris and I were off to Home Depot to get the paint. We decided on one gallon of the accent wall color and 5 gallons of the other wall color. Worked out perfectly. When I got home I started pulling everything off the walls so Chris could fill in holes and prep. By the evening we starting painting accent walls. By 8:30 that night I decided I better take Friday off. I called Howard (my business partner) and said I have to stay home. Friday morning we all got up early and painted ALL DAY. OMG it looks far better than I could have dreamed. Chris had photo shoots on Saturday and his parents coming over on Sunday so we wanted to get as much done as we could Friday. Well it turned out very well.

Saturday my mom and I did some window shopping looking for items to match the house with no real luck. We decided to get my car washed, grab some lunch and go home to watch a movie. We watched "When in Rome". Really cute movie. Later that night we decided to do a Bingo marathon. We started at 4pm and finished just after 1am. So much fun but man were we tired. We went to Vaca Valley Bingo in support of the Scarlet Brigade (my former high school band, which I was a part of).

Sunday was a mad dash in the morning. Chris and I went to Home Depot and Walmart to get items for the house. We found at Walmart great curtains and Home Depot the curtain rods. We then went to Raley's to pick up some drinks and buns for the pulled pork sandwiches Chris made. So good. Chris' parents came and went. And so did the power. Chris was in the middle of hanging the curtain rod for the dinning room slider when everything just turned off. So luckily he was hanging the rod because with the sun hitting that side of the house it was going to get really hot and fast. We expected the power to come on quickly but as time passed it got hotter and hotter in the house. Soon we were hanging out in the front yard with the sprinkler on for Christian. As the sun set behind the houses we moved to the backyard for Christian to play with his toys. While Chris ran to Subway to get dinner, I walked around to neighbor houses to make sure they had candles. I didn't want anyone left in the dark. Finally at 11pm we gave up and went to bed and of course no one could sleep because of the heat. Well by 12:30am it came back on. We were out of our bed so fast to turn off lights and close windows. And we were out. So tired.

Fun and busy week for sure. This week is just as crazy but I will report on Sunday. Same time, same channel.

As for my weight, well I am doing fine. I just don't know my exact weight from Sunday night so I guess I just have a bye this week and I will give an update next blog.

Have a good week everyone!

xoxo
Niesse

PS... Final painting pics to be posted on next week's blog.