Service Projects!

Although we played a lot over the holiday break it wasn't all play and no work! We had our fair share of work during the week! For Nate's mom's Christmas present she wanted to redo her guestroom. Nate and I offered to paint it for her and I sewed curtains for the window. It was nice to be painting someone's house other than our own, we've had quite the practice in our own house!

This is the before picture. It wasn't really that bad to paint, and I think the hardest part of painting is picking the color not the actual painting!

This is the color Nate's mom chose, it's actually the primer, but was tinted so we would only do two coats of paint. (What's up with subliminal messages with paint?!!!)

It's always fun working side by side with my husband! We have a good time listening to music (and sports radio!), talking, laughing! Grandma watched the kids while we painted, not a bad deal right there!!

This isn't quite the after shot, but although this color looks great in this photo the real color and the actual room was very bright and intense! As we painted we kept asking Nate's mom if she liked it her response was always "I LOVE IT!" When we were all done and we saw the paint color it was a little too bold than she wanted to go! So over the next week she found a little softer yellow and now it looks great. I can't wait to see the room all done with new carpet and the bedspread and curtains I made! It will be a beautiful room to stay in!

The next project we took on was in Chelsie's house. We drew names in Nate's family and we chose his sister Chelsie's name. We offered to do service in her basement instead of buying a gift. It was quite the job of spackling the walls, painting the ceiling, and walls. Taking out carpet and that was all we had time for! There was still more to do! We got a good start on it for her and it turned out looking great. Once again I didn't get an after shot, but last week Nate went over and helped work on the flooring and soon it will be completed.

This is what got us through our manual labor jobs! A little ice cold coke to give us some energy!!

It was a good experience for us serving our family members. We are grateful for their love and support and help to us and grateful we could help those who needed us!