Another Saturday of work

Today we tried to make things more comfortable for Edie who was stuck with us all day. The older two  had friends to visit or birthday parties to attend and Edie got the great joy of running yet again to Home Depot with us and picking out a power sander. Part of how we convinced her to come back to the house to work with us is that we brought a sleeping bag, DVD player, snacks, and let her just lay and relax for awhile.

Owen was being whiney at dinner, so we put his butt to work learning to use the new power sander we got. We pulled the gross carpet from the stairs and found a whole lot of glue under it that needs to come off so we can paint the stairs. This is not exactly fun, but keeps people busy.

We started priming walls!

Here are the stairs. Obviously there is a whole lot more to do yet! I promised the kids mini blizzards if they bust their butts working on them tomorrow.

The hall is all primed and ready to be painted.

We need a different light in the hall. This one is not at all our style.

Owen's room is primed and ready to go blue. It was a dark purple/pink color. 3 coats of primer. I am pooped!

We will need to get out the extension ladder to finish the rest of the hall that goes above the stairs.

Joe patched up the wall in the girls' room where he removed a half wall thing. We want to go back in and paint this.

Joe also filled all the cracks in the upstairs walls and our ceiling. Tomorrow we should really get somewhere on the painting and priming. How else would Joe want to spend Father's Day? :)