Our First Reveal!!

Yes, I know...it's been a while. But we're finally ready for our first big reveal!! Since our last post, we made some decisions about the color for our first room (the 2nd bedroom) and had one solid weekend of getting a couple coats of primer on the walls. Then...well...we did this:

Here you'll see Jeff's mom standing second from the right with her brothers and sisters...who all had kids...who had more kids...who all got together at a fun little campground in Illinois for a weekend. Holy cow, I met a LOT of new people that weekend! Then we did this:

That tiny little guy dressed in white is our beautiful godson, Anthony. We were so excited to be in St. Louis last weekend for his baptism. Such a sweet little guy, and a wonderful family, too.

SO. Painting has taken a little longer than we initially thought it would, but we're blaming it on our short little spurts of "enough time for one coat on two walls" evenings. (And I'm happy to deny that it has anything to do with our less-than-pro comfort level with Green Frog Tape or having 17 different kinds of paint brushes that we MUST try out). Right before the last post, the room looked like this.

It's actually a pretty nice green color, but this room is one of the brightest rooms in the house. We decided to celebrate that and go even brighter. I'll be honest here - I was a bit unsure of our color choice for a little while. When we first opened the paint can, I thought to myself..."Wow. Creamsicle. What have we DONE?!?!" But Jeff's encouragement to relax, get it on the wall, and re-evaluate later was great. I'm loving it now, and I think it's going to be even better with furniture in the room and the right decor. So....with no further ado...

 
 "Beth, do we really only get to see this corner of the room?" you say. Ok, fine, here's the rest:

Yes, I absolutely refuse to move all of our supplies just for a good shot of the other half of the room.

There's still more to do - we need to figure out a few of the details, but we're on our way. This weekend's projects include fixing up the very neglected closet in that room (seen here after I did some scraping and steel wool sanding of all the flaking paint)...

...and breaking ground in the bathroom.

Yes, this is the ceiling after a not-so-hot paint job (from before Jeff bought the house) started falling off in chunks. (We're HOPING that's the real reason...and not some scary water damage under there!) I see a crick in my neck and some amazingly strong biceps in my near future...