My Paint Stripping Nightmare

My post title might sound a little funny...but this is a REAL nightmare! We decided the french doors going into our family room needed to be painted from tuscany red back to white for selling our home. I had never been quite satisfied with the red doors and my realtor confirmed it for me so it was time to work on it. Randy has been working so many hours on his side job so the doors were assigned to yours truly to finish. The doors stick a little already with the paint on it so we had to either sand off the old paint or strip it off. I went with the paint stripping choice but looking back, sanding would be a whole lot easier!

My first day of trying turned out to be a disaster! The material only works when it is wet...I discovered after using half of the solution to cover both doors. It was way fumey and it took hours for me to scrape small sections off. Both Randy and neighbors watching me agreed that it might be better to buy new doors. What! $110 dollars when these doors are perfectly fine except the paint mess all over it?? I don't think so! So yesterday was try #2. I took off to lowes and this time came back with a citrus stripper that was supposed to stay wet for 24 hours so it can be stripped in one swoop. Well, it is not as good as it sounds, but 10 times better than the first one! Here is my efforts of hours upon hours of work yesterday.

Not only do I still have hours of cleaning up the left over sludge before I can paint it..but it makes quite a sticky mess with the paint scrapings...

Yuck! I don't recommend doing this to anyone who thinks it might be fun. I might have a little handy mam experience now, but I would take handy man Randy's help any day over this!!!

Riding The "Fries" At Lagoon

Randy's work party was held at Lagoon this year. Connor was so excited to ride the "fries" as he calls them. The boys had lots of fun. Kyler fell asleep on the way to Lagoon, so the first couple rides were a little rough for him. Poor guy looked like he was going to throw up!

Connor's favorite ride was the train. He was so excited to get on that he kept on trying to cut in line.

And this was the result of a hard days play..and a very quiet ride home!

Fabulous Finds!

We wanted to give a little freshing up to the house as we get ready to list it again. So we bought some furniture....used of course. But I was able to get some fabulous finds at some great prices. I cannot believe the difference it has made. Here is the new/used living room furniture.

A cream microfiber loveseat and couch










Imagine going 2 years without a dresser...I don't know how we did it so long. But we finally have some bedroom furniture and I am loving all the drawers!! These are also used and we picked them up at great prices too!


An Amoire




Wide Dresser with mirror



4 poster canopy bed and tall dresser in the background.



I haven't gotten any bedding for the bed yet. I am imagining cream curtains in the corners of the bed and cream bedding with lots of pillows. The bed was so tall in the beginning I was afraid of rolling off in the middle of the night. I'm starting to get used to the height now and really like it.

Carnival Fun

This last weekend we took a trip up to my parents house for my 10 year highschool reunion and The Preston Rodeo Days Parade and Carnival. It was nice to spend time with the family, the boys love their Grandpa. Here is a picture of my cute little sister Tara. I wish we lived closer to them because it would be fun to spend more time with her family.




They rode rides with their cute cousin Kyree.

And the guys had fun too. ;)