Fun with Friends

Saturday night Cliff and I caught up with some friends from our days in the Victory Temple youth group. Jessica and Jody Wright and Ruben and Angela Rodriguez have lived in the DFW area for years now, and we amazingly are living close to them again. We ate at Saltgrasss and then went on to Starbucks for coffee. Since I am not a coffee drinker and can't figure out why everyone goes crazy over Starbucks, I did find something I could get addicted to....Apple Chai tea. It was great! Anyway, we had a great time catching up on old times and just enjoyed hanging out with them.

The girls listening to Ruben tell a story....

Ruben making everyone laugh!

Goodbye Gold!

The time has come for the gold to go away! We've already changed the gold light fixtures, and now we working on the last part...the knobs and hinges for all the doors. We are doing it a little at a time so I am having to be patient. This is really not that exciting to most people, but I am so glad it is going away even if it is a slow process! I have been looking forward to this day since we bought the house. What is really exciting is that I have changed out a lot of the knobs and hinges myself! I love using power tools, but I am not a pro! I get started and Cliff usually has to come bail me out! I look forward to trying to learn how to do more things as we remodel.

Here's some before and after pictures even though they are two different doors.

Before

After

Fun Painting

Cliff and I took on the job of painting our house. I was a little unsure of the my color choice, but I do think that it is growing on me. I'm glad that I am liking it more because we used it in our den, breakfast room, kitchen, dining room, halls, and laundry room. So, it is almost everywhere! We learned a painting trick from our pastor that made it so much easier and made the job go by much faster!

Before pictures of the Den

The Den after painting.

The Breakfast Room

The trick we learned from Pastor Jerry made our job so much easier. All we had to do was tape the ceiling off. Our tape is actually on the ceiling. Then, we used caulk to run a line along the side of the tape that is touching the wall that is being painted. Next, Cliff smeared the caulk along the tape. This created a seal that prevented the paint from seeping through and onto the ceiling. When he peeled the tape off...we had a perfect line and ceiling did not get painted!