The new house has been an adventure already!! We were unloading a truck load of furniture when we heard a loud hum coming from the roof...
Bees!!! Wow! Seriously??! I discovered a few years ago that I am actually allergic to bees. I don't think its a severe allergy, but I stepped on one and my foot swelled up like Fred Flinstone's and the lower part of my leg started to get puffy. No fun. So, my cute husband made us stay in the house and called a Bee Guy (What else do you call them? They aren't all Bee Keepers...).So, this guy came out and did his magic.
He got honey half way up his drill and said the bee hive has likely been there a few years!! 
It sounds like we will have a bee problem every year until we take apart the chimney stack and remove the hive and make the smell go away so it doesn't attracted other bees who will "raid" or claim the hive as their own. Fun, fun, but as it gets hot outside, my living room has a very sweet smell coming through the vents of the fireplace...So, we dealt with the bee problem, decided to take a break from all of our moving and spend the day on the lake with our friends. When we came home, we found this new "friend" on our front door!
OH MY!! It looks like it could eat me!! YIKES! So, Jason caught it, but only after we sprayed it with some serious bug spray!
THEN, we are closing up for the night and I see the little guy hoping down the hall. 
Yes, same day. I don't know why but the whole "lions and tigers and bears" thing came to my mind and I just couldn't get it out. Maybe it was because I kept saying and thinking "Oh My!".The frogs, I don't mind. It reminds me of when I was a kid and used to catch baby frogs. The kids think its funny when I jump or let out a little surprise gasp if one jumps across my foot! "Will someone come get the frog out of the house?" is quickly becoming part of my regular vocabulary.
They are actually kinda cute and have provided hours of entertainment for Ashlyn ...
So, the frogs were helpful and allowed me to spend the better part of a few weeks with a paint brush in hand!
This room was turned into our guest room/office
before
after
This room was painted purple to look like Ashlyn's room in our old house.
My mom came over and helped us preserve the castle. I thought it was too cute to paint over.
Now it looks like this
I painted the bathroom neutral.
Austin didn't think he could sleep in a purple room so this room went from this
To this
The girls still want their rooms painted and I have a few other rooms that I would like to paint but, because they don't look terrible with what I put in there, they are going to have to wait until we get all the way moved in and settled.
The girls still want their rooms painted and I have a few other rooms that I would like to paint but, because they don't look terrible with what I put in there, they are going to have to wait until we get all the way moved in and settled.I'll post house pics when we are settled. I am still trying to figure out where to put things and keep getting distracted by the pool in the backyard!
Oh, on that note... guess what the kids found in the pool a few days ago? A MOUSE!!!! Ewwww!!! It must have been kicked in by the yard buy when he mowed the lawn earlier in the day. "Seriously?!" I don't think anything will surprise me anymore.
June 23
Okay, so I posted some house pics in our picasa album under New House. I only have pictures of the rooms that we are mostly moved in to. I'll post more as we get settled.
4 comments:
I love the house. so fun! The paint colors all look so great. Good job!
We have a horrible problem with spiders here in SoCal. If you spray your windows and doors with lemon pledge, they won't come in! Beautiful house.
You guys have made so many improvements already to make a very nice house even more beautiful!
Tara I LOVE the colors! That guest room looks mighty nice! I might just have to try it out sometime soon! Can't wait to see the rest of the house with all of your stuff in it! It already looks so much better!
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