Valentines Day and House Progress

As tradition in my house growing up we had giant Valentine cookies.  I didn't want to make giant cookies, so I made smaller bite sized cookies.  Connor had a great time helping.

We raided my Valentines from school to find candies to add to the cookies.  I had bought the cinnamon pieces ahead of time, but thought we had sprinkles at home as well...we didn't.

Peter made his cookies look like they had the chicken pox.  Connor thought that was a good idea, so he decorated his cookies quite similar.

He also had a great time sampling the frosting.

This weekend we worked on the house as usual.  We made several trips to Home Depot and a trip to Lowes to pick up our bathroom vanity that finally came in.  Then today we worked on painting the downstairs.  I painted as far as I could reach in the living room while Peter and Connor made a trip to Home Depot for more supplies.  When they came home, I was nearly done with the room.  Peter used a super extended pole to reach all the high areas.  When nap time rolled around someone refused to stay in bed.  He crashed on the floor around 4...it's hard work fixing up our house.

This gray room will be Connor's room.  We finished removing the baseboards and tack strips today.  The wall has a few holes that need to be patched up and then Frank will re-texture it so we can paint it.  It will have a jungle/safari theme to it.

This is the closet area.  The previous owners removed two of the closets in the upstairs rooms.  We will put them back in.  The floor will also be carpeted.

This will be the nursery-minus the toilet of course.  It will generally look like it did in the condo.

Here's the closet space.  We'll repaint and add more shelves and baskets to hold stuff.

Here's the pergo that we started ripping up.  The upstairs will be all carpet.

Here's how the bathroom is coming along.  Frank is going to come by sometime this week and texture the walls.  Then we will have until Friday night to get primer and two coats of color on the walls.  Since the vanity is here, it will be installed on Saturday as well as the flooring I think.  Once it is installed we have to call our granite people and have them install the counter top.  Then the back splash can be installed and the bathroom will nearly be done.....aaahh I see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Here's more of the pergo being removed.

These next three pictures are the living room.  They were taken at the same time of the day, yet all three look quite different.  The color is Toasted Cashew from Behr.

Here's Peter painting the downstairs hallway.  My mom painted the closet Cottage White over the weekend.  The walls are Toasted Cashew, which when done will really make the closet stand out.

We thought about having a painting party, then realized we only have two rollers.  So we did it ourselves today as we had the day off work and were very surprised at how fast we got the first coat done.