A few weeks ago I came across a quote that said  "the bank will give you a loan once you prove to them that you don't really need it" -Bob Hope. Between that and buying a house from Fannie Mae this has been a real experience. But I am happy to say we finally closed on the house last Wednesday and it is officially ours.
So what did we do? What any other family would do, we started painting.

I have to be honest I climbed up the ladder to the top and kind of freaked out. Which is so crazy because I painted our last house in the entry way with those tall ceilings and didn't even mind. So Mike took one for the team and went up the 20 foot ladder and got it all taped.  Just FYI he hates heights. So I spent the next few days getting so mad at myself until I just got up there and worked it out and am back to doing the painting.

 That must be a very nice mom that lets her kids graffiti the walls.

We have been working on it for almost a week and we are half done, half moved in and half crazy!