WE'VE BECOME ONE OF THOSE COUPLES

"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time."

Yep, we're with you there Frank The Tank. We actually look forward to going to Home Depot on the weekends now, especially after discovering their monthly Kids Workshop. Every first Saturday, Home Depot holds a free class for the little ones in the morning. This week, while going to stock up on more paint supplies, we actually came across a workshop in which Fayte got to build her own Tony Stewart Home Depot Nascar vehicle! It was pretty neat. Next month, Fayte will get to get her hands dirty with a custom planter. The new baby's hoping it's a potato plant!


Check out the apron!


Evidence clearly indicating that Mommy was the one who put the wheel on backwards.


The finished product.


Fayte trades up to something a little more rugged.



Oh and speaking of building, it took two straight days (especially because we're down a Le due to the pregnancy) but we finally got the kitchen walls peeled and texturized! We're hoping to paint sometime this week if there's time. Otherwise we'll wait until this weekend. We got some snow today here in Dallas so if it stays frozen tomorrow morning, then we might have a chance!


Someone decided to hide out while the painting was going on.


Though Cousin Connor did show up to help us move.


Wait, that's not Connor!


There he is! Fayte practicing her Big Sis skills at the Messersmith's.

PIMP MY KITCHEN

We didn't wait to start tearing down the nasty wallpaper in the kitchen. Unfortunately, we didn't realize how extremely difficult it is. There's nothing you can apply to it that will allow you to just peel off the panels. Instead, it's a painfully slow process that feels like peeling off tiny slivers of tape that's been super-glued onto the wall one tiny piece at a time. This is even after scoring it and drenching it in wallpaper remover solution. And you know what else? After we started tearing off shreds of the green wallpaper, we found another layer to have to deal with underneath of it! Our workload was doubled.



And then guess what? We found another layer! Hello 1970.



After getting through that layer, we found yet another layer, we actually continued traveling through time. Hello 1960. This one resembled rudimentary cave drawings of barns and wagons. Seriously, it looked like Fayte took a #2 pencil and drew on the wall.



By now it became comical. So with all of the wonderful new surprises, this is all we got done after one full day of merciless peeling.



As you can see we didn't even get to the other side of the kitchen. After another day of around-the-clock labor, we finally did it! Next up, texture, primer and finally paint...as soon as we find the fingernails we lost while peeling through time.