Growing a Little Schulze

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Getting Daniel's room ready

After hemming and hawing, I finally committed to having the girls share a room and changing Ellie's room into Daniel's room. So the second weekend in November, my mom and I made a plan to paint! Here's the before.

First we had to get all the decals off the wall. I started on Friday. But even peeling off every single petal in those pink flowers was tedious so we had to finish the task Saturday morning. Then we were able to start with the paint. Here's the navy wall getting started!

And the medium blue for the rest of the walls. Once it was done it didn't seem much different than the aqua was there. But I have this photo for proof that it's a different color!

Wall are done! My sister showed up Saturday around noon with flowers, lunch and ready to work! What an awesome surprise!

Time to start the stripes I had in mind. Lots of measuring and deliberating about where and what color stripes to do. I finally decided and we got one coat of red on Saturday night.

Finished the red stripe and added the blue stripes on Sunday.

A before and after comparison of the accent wall

And a week or two later, the curtains I ordered arrived!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Halloween 2014

Lots of Halloween festivities to document. Here comes the parade of pictures!

Pumpkin Carving

Jeff cuts the top

Ellie isn't too sure

Claire digs right in

Ellie likes the scooper

Finished product!
Designed by Claire, cut by Mama

Halloween Playdate

Tinker Bell drives the train

Cupcake slider

The crew

Halloween party for the adults

Mommy and Daddy have a night out at
a party downtown by Jeff's co-worker

Miscellaneous

Halloween outfit for school

Pumpkin painting

Preschool Halloween party:

Pumpkin rice krispie treats

Costume parade

Claire's class with Ms. Jan and Ms. Liz

Halloween photo booth

Halloween story

Watermelon monster

Claire and Mommy

Trick-or-treating with cousins:

The cousins

Our girls

Ellie with her grandmas

She's fascinated by the skeleton

Riding in style!

Tinker Bell is ready for candy!

Reviewing the haul

Cutest cupcake on the block!

And a throwback to 2012 for
Claire in the cupcake costume

Monday, November 10, 2014

October 2014

October - the month of P!
For pumpkins and Paaps!
Two visits to a pumpkin farm plus celebrating my Dad's birthday. Another botanical garden trip and miscellaneous things to keep the girls entertained.