I Just Love Mondays

NOT.

I really hate Mondays if you want me to be completely honest, but at least I get to offer you a Memoir Monday (hosted by Mrs. Ruby), recapping our much-needed 'kick-start to our basement project' weekend.

Oh joy, we started painting. Another thing I love so very much. We started with the trim, going from oak wood to clean creamy white, and will hopefully paint the walls this weekend. The room has a ledge that goes around the entire middle of the wall, so it will take a few days to get several coats of prime and paint applied.

However, I keep telling my overly-anal husband, that if we would just go to town on priming/painting and not get too caught up in sanding, removing floor trim from the wall, sanding again, etc. etc, these projects would go much faster. But he doesn't listen.

He wins most battles when it comes to painting.

And as I stated in my last post, we had some time to do a little family photo shoot for our Christmas Card. The photographer you ask? Only our good friends, Tripod and Timer. Tripod is very trust worthy and always stands very still.

Not sure which one(s) we will use, but I think we have some pretty good choices considering our quick, self-photo shoot, sans photographer, at a park near our house.

Brian hates this one because of his culdesacs, but I just love it:)

Isn't Jake such a cutie? He was such a good boy while we were snapping photos on the bridge. He stayed close by and wasn't even leashed!

So, I was so excited seeing the photos on camera screen that I applied them to my Shutterfly drafted cards last night. I am very pleased with how they turned out, but am even more confused on which card to go with now! The colors in a photo can make the card look completely different.

Sunday, we had the pleasure of visiting the Greens and baby Grace. More to come on that adventure, along with the crock-pot taco soup recipe I took over there. Delish.

Here's to a happy Monday!