Friends, Paint and More

We've had a fun couple days here in Utah (besides the election results of course). Wednesday was sort of a bummer day but after talking to many people, I've come to the conclusion that it's for the best. Thursday I got a text from one of my most favorite people in the world saying she was in Utah. We met many years ago while our husbands were in dental school and she is pretty amazing :).

She has had a pretty rough year. Her oldest was diagnosed with bone cancer and has been in Seattle at the hospital there for the past 8 months. They found out while Cherish was a few months pregnant with her sixth child and she moved to Seattle with her oldest while her other kids stayed back at their house (the youngest being 18 months). So she went through the treatments with her daughter and had a baby 3 months ago. Just this last weekend her daughter was released from the hospital. So thankful that they are together as a family again and that their daughter is cancer free! It was so good to catch up with her and meet her newest little cutie pie. I don't think I've met anyone who is so calm with her kids. You would never know she had 6 kids with how well she handles everything and how positive she stays with everything she goes through!! I'm pretty sure she doesn't read this but Thanks for visiting me Cherish!!! We sure love your cute family! :) I feel like I have been painting since I moved in and I am able to say that I am done painting now!! Yay! The kids didn't have school this past Monday so while they were here I decided to paint my bedroom. (I remembered to take a picture after I started so you could see what color was there)

We have played name that paint color and some names we've come up with were: throw-up, puke, ugliest color you've ever seen, etc. They called it gold but I don't think thats possible. So I painted it without Josh knowing to see if he would notice. This is post painting:

He went into the room 5 times without noticing and I kept texting my sister to keep her updated and that I couldn't believe he hadn't noticed. At 10:30 that night I was giving my sister a final update that was going to say I can't believe he can't smell the paint and I started laughing and he came over and grabbed my phone to see what was so funny and read all the texts. It was pretty funny cause then he goes in and his mouth drops. He said it just looked natural and that he probably wouldn't have noticed for a while. Men! I don't know if he felt guilty about not noticing cause when I went into the office yesterday and starting removing wallpaper he jumped right in and helped take it all off- without me asking!! Be prepared for the following picture this wallpaper was pretty Loud to say the least-

I documented my hubby helping cause he wanted to keep the wallpaper. It was "golfy" to him. Actually it was because he thought it would be too much of a pain to remove it. Fabric softener and hot water makes it come off quickly and my house smelled soooo good after we were done :). Here is the final results:

We love it! The paint we used was supposed to be the match of the rest of our house but Lowe's was way off by about 5 shades being too dark. I'm glad we were able to put it to good use. Lastly I thought I would post a picture of Halloween. Cambry was an angel and looked so beautiful but they were at the bus stop when I realized I hadn't taken her picture and by the time I ran out with my phone they were climbing on the bus:(. Cal wanted to be a witch but I convinced her to be a super hero like Court. I thought their outfits should coordinate and I think they looked cute. One little boy told them they weren't twins anymore though cause they weren't dressed alike.

This was the best picture I got of Isaac. He just wore his karate outfit. Lots more to blog about but for now this'll do :).