While You Were Out...

Have you ever seen the show While You Were Out? If you haven't then here's a brief overview of the show... a homeowner sneakily sends his or her spouse, parent or roommate out of town for a couple of days as While You Were Out brings in a designer and two handypersons to work around the clock to create a new look for the person's room. At the end they bring in the person for the big surprise transformation and the homeowner announces, "Look what happened While You Were Out!" WELL, my friend Amy Lopez, her daughter Kinsey's 14th birthday was this weekend. Kinsey is the one who always babysits for us and the kids LOVE her. So Amy had me come over on Friday morning about 10:30 a.m. after Kinsey had left for school. She was going to a friend's house after school and was sleeping over. We started working on her bedroom. Here is a picture of her bedroom before we started.

We were changing from bright green to yellow so to start we had to prime the walls. Then while the primer was drying we worked fast and furious on all kinds of projects. Amy had already sewn some of the pillows, had found the most beautiful bedspread and curtains at a garage sale, and then we painted accessories. Then back to the room to paint the yell0w on most of the walls and then white on one wall as a base for our yellow and white stripes. While the white was drying we were putting up the curtain rod and doing all the other odds and ends. Then we striped the wall and we couldn't wait to put it all together! In fact I'm sure we could have left it to dry till morning, but I couldn't get myself to leave until I saw a few accessories in there. After we got a few accessories in there then we couldn't wait to see the painting tape removed, as soon as we removed the tape then we wanted to see the bedding in there. So one thing led to another and the room was almost all put together by the time I left at 2:30 a.m.!!!!! Amy just had to hang the pictures on the walls! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fun! Amy even took footage and we acted like it was an episode of While You Were Out!

I forgot to mention one of the funniest things that happened. We were juggling kids all day until our husbands got home to rescue them from the craziness. Everything was going pretty smooth. Amy's daughter Kennedy and Emma helped with our 2 babies, and after Luke and Carver got home from school they just entertained themselves. We thought they were staying out of trouble UNTIL we were downstairs working on some painting projects of accessories in the garage. We heard Luke and Carver's little voices yelling to Carver's friend from the upstairs bedroom window, Kinsey's upstairs bedroom where trays of white primer were laying around!!!!! We didn't think anything of it until I went up a few minutes later to start painting the yellow on the walls. I walk in to find a little spot of white on the carpet. I was about to go tell the boys not to come in the room anymore because they must have stepped in the primer and then tracked it onto the carpet...little did I know it was much worse then just stepping on some of the primer. They had decided that they wanted to help paint and so they grabbed a roller and rolled the primer on the top of Kinsey's wood dresser!!!!!!! And then they did a few rolls right across the screen on the screen window!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I panicked! I ran to Carver's room and immediately asked if they had done it. Luke quickly fessed up! He has been lying so much lately and we have really been after him and so he knew it would just be better to get it out on the table right then and there! I was proud of him for the honesty but LIVID that he had caused such mischief! Luckily we scrubbed the top of the dresser with baby wipes and so it really wasn't noticeable. As for the screen...very noticeable! We're lucky they didn't do more damage! They were punished by having to clean up all the toys that had been drug out all day as we were frantically trying to keep babies and kids entertained. :) Pretty funny! :) I was so shocked and I was trying so fervently to get it clean that I didn't think to stop and take a picture of the damage.

Kinsey came home Saturday afternoon and I ran over there for the "reveal". She was so surprised and excited! It turned out so dang cute! I got home and my house seemed so blah and it made me want to do something fun to my house! :) Except for one thing...I don't have any energy to do something so ambitious! It will have to wait until I get my second wind! (which could take months lol)