Kids school carnival

Yesterday the kids had their school carnival.  Usually they have a bunch of bouncy house type things to do but this year they just had games, a haunted house and a dunk tank.  Tanner had fun watching his teacher get dunked over and over again and his principal.  Micah just chilled in his stroller, only cried when it was time to feed.  Savannah spent most of her time waiting in the long line to get her face painted and Spencer had fun fishing and getting his face painted as well.  We didn't bring our camera but we did have our phones. 

Savannahs room

When we found out that baby Micah was a boy we told Savannah that we would have to move her out of her room and into Spencers and then move Spencer into her room.  She was worried that Spencer and Micah would both break all her toys.  After she realized all her stuff would come with her to her "new" room she was ok with it but then asked if we would finally paint her room.  We have been promising her that we would paint her room ever since we moved in but we never got around to it.  Thankfully we waited or poor Spencer and Micah would either A) be sharing a pretty small room together or B) be sharing a pretty girly room! 

So labor day weekend we went and got the paint and got busy.  She had requested a pink, purple, yellow, green and blue room.  I had once seen a room with 4 different colors on it in a magazine and thought it was adorable so I tried to recreate it for Savannahs room.  She loves butterflies and flowers also so we put those on her wall. 

We forgot to get before pictures so we took a picture after 2 of the walls were painted.  It was a little tricky for me to help all the time since I had to nurse Micah or pay attention to him (which I love doing!).  So it took us a little longer then I had thought it would.  We worked on Saturday night for about 4-5 hours.  Then again on Sunday night for 3-4 hours.  And then spent most of the day on Monday doing touch-ups.  Darin took a break with the 3 older kids and took them to a movie (the kids get free movie passes from school to the dollar theater in Spanish Fork).  While they were gone I did more touch ups took down the tape and got ready to put the butterflies and flowers up.  We had originally wanted to do a stencil boarder but when I put it up on one of the walls I didn't like it so we painted over it and did something different.  Once the kids went to sleep we got busy and again and spent another 2-3 hours stamping and putting her room back together.

I think we did a pretty good job and it turned out pretty cute.  When Savannah woke up on Tuesday morning she was so thrilled to see that it was all finished.  Now I need to find out how to refinish old furniture.  A few years ago my Uncle gave me a pair of dressers that belonged to my Great Grandma.  I was pregnant at the time with Spencer so I didn't want to do it then and well.... 3 years later I still haven't gotten around to it!  Oh well it still looks ok in Savannahs room.  Spencer is now asking us to paint his room.....  I told him I would paint it white!  No one day we will get around to Spencer's and Micah's room.

Littlest Pet Shop stolen by a Squirrel

Here is the picture I promised of the littlest pet shop that was stolen by a squirrel while camping.  Once he realized it wasn't any good he dropped it