Fun times around the house!

Pictures from the outside. Aaron's been busy chopping trees down and taking loads to the dump. We didn't water this back part, because it was just a bunch of weeds, so the ground looks pretty dry. However, the other day, Aaron just watered for a few minutes and the next day there was a bunch of grass that had come up. We didn't know there was any grass seed back there. So now we are starting to water back there. It helps that water is cheaper here in Pilot Rock.
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Looking at these before and after pictures, I feel like I'm doing a make up ad. You know how they have the person look their absolute worst in the before picture and then they change clothes, erase wrinkles and do whatever they need to in order to make the person look their absolute best. Well, these pictures are similar. In the original ones, the curtains are pulled, so it is darker than normal, which in turn make the after pictures look really bright. Taking out the paneling did lighten things up though. Leslie came and helped us tear it out, pick out paint, and paint the room. She thought we should choose a light green. Aaron and I weren't really sure. We felt better about browns. I went with Leslie to the store to get paint. We found a light brown called "spiced sugar." I wonder how they get these names anyway. We painted it and Samuel says, "Is this dark white?" I think his name was better. I really like the lighter walls. It seems to make the room bigger. And at nighttime, when our lamps and lights are on, the room almost looks like a light green. Aaron teased Leslie, "Hey, Leslie, I guess you got your green anyway!"

We have renamed the living room and family room since the original house posts. The kids would run from their bedrooms to the family room to play which was fine except their path went through the living room. So now the living room will be at the end of the house and the family room will be the room just down the hallway from the bedrooms.
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Living Room closets Before:

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These next two pictures are at different angles of the living room. I didn't have before pictures in these places.


Bathroom Before:

After (you probably can't tell much of a difference. I just painted the walls a baby boy blue instead of the greenish/blue it was.)