don't faint...but it really is a post.....

I told the kids we couldn't decorate for Christmas until the living room was painted....as I didn't want to put the living room back together and then take it back apart to paint. It's been torn apart for a few months now..... So we pushed, all of us pushed, and got it painted in the last week.

All five boys....at one time........well ok, it was three paint rollers and one paint brush, so only four boys.....all painting at the same time.....yes, really. It would have been all five, but I didn't have enough pieces to have all five at one time. So they rotated.

Anyway the final result was so worth it. We LOVE how it turned out. This first picture is of the boys FINALLY getting to decorate the tree this year. (we still have plastic on the carpet in the background, I'm still painting some other stuff...)


Lee decorated this window with our stuffed snowmen...

The brown is called chewy caramel, the white (which was supposed to have a hint of tan in it), footprints.....

Lee is putting the nativity scene up on the piano. The boys are so happy to have the piano back where it belongs!

Our three living room windows.....

AND.....we have NEW living room furniture coming....well new to us and it was generously given to us by a ward member. It's a medium size sectional and it's about four years old, but looks brand new. No pets, no children......we'll fix that....... We're hoping to get it tomorrow night.