Frenzy

Finding out we were having a girl made me feel all this zealous energy to have to do stuff to my house to get ready.  As most home improvement projects, it starts out with one thing and spirals into several.  It started with me feeling like if we were going to have 3 girls, they needed the bigger room.  I am not yet willing to give up my guest room (its the only room I can always count on to be clean), and so I measured the two kids rooms and found Lyman's was bigger.  Okay, not a lot bigger but enough.  Problem one: his had boy colored walls and a car boarder.  So down came the boarder and we rushed to get the two rooms painted a neutral tan color.  The girls' room was a girly light green so it had to go too.  We worked hard and painted it.  But then I thought, we have gross carpet in the living room.  It was bad when we moved in and its the worst of the whole house.  It didn't match the rest of the house either because it was never changed when they did the other parts for some reason.  So then the carpet had to be changed (which was on our to do list for years).  We couldn't just change one room, so I thought we would change all the carpet on main floor.  But then I thought - it wont match the upstairs!  (Horror!)  In then end, after budgeting, and looking at our options it looked feasible to do the whole house and so we did.    This is the after results.

 The carpet is so cozy and soft.

 The master bedroom.  Seriously getting new carpet is like moving house.  Everything has to be broken down (beds) and moved.  It was hard work and not a process I want to do soon.  Good thing for nice warranties on carpets.

 Lyman's new room in the girls' old room complete with new wall color.

 The girls' room before we put up the crib on the empty wall across from their beds.  Corilynn loves sleeping in the top bunk and Ruby loves to do it too on her naps.