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All Work & No Play

Published August 24, 2006 by Erin
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What a month August has been. We closed on the new house July 31 and have been working on it ever since. We spent the first 2 weeks up till 11 or 12 every night painting EVERYTHING in the house…. woodwork, walls, doors, cabinets, you name it. Painting takes a long time. We even had a “Painting party” to give us that extra “push” we needed to get everything done before we moved in. Thanks to our wonderful friends and family who came out to help us get lots of color on the walls… we couldn’t have done it without you! And we had lots of fun in the process! :) Here’s some pictures to reflect on the weekend.

gram & gramp
Gram and Gramp were pros at cleaning the windows which desperately needed it! Look at the difference from the top left window to the right in this picture!

viles
Kevin’s parents joined in on the fun too… they came down from Detroit! Thanks!!!

jens & melis
Gotta love the church family. Jens and Melissa were gracious enough to help us AND our pastor (painting and moving the same time we were) all in one day. :) We love you guys!

chris & heather
Kris and Heather also joined us from Detroit. They never quit! They painted 3 rooms for us, in 2 they put 2nd coats on!!!! What a blessing they were to have help!

mom
Mom and dad (not in the picture) were huge helps too! Working late into the night many times to help us get things done. And then the following weekend helping us move in! Always going above and beyond! We so appreciate and love you!

hallway

ethan painting
Even Ethan wanted to get in on the painting. He grabbed his paint brush and bucket and knew what to do by watching us over and over dip our brush into the bucket and paint on the wall. :)

popcicle
But he soon needed a break! :)

ethan


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  1. Jen
    Posted August 25, 2006 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

    love the pictures! let us know if you’d like us to come down and help next weekend — even if its not electrical, we’d like to do what we can. :) *lots of love*

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