Paint Day Recap

We started off Saturday with almost the whole upstairs primed and ready for a topcoat.

 

Our paint color is Valspar's Mesa Tumbleweed. We had some great help getting it on the walls. Thanks to our friends and family that could come and help.

We have carpet coming in the next couple of weeks so we still have a lot yet to paint and a few bathrooms to tile. It's hard work but a lot of fun. 

For fun, here is Carissa, who has started telling me that the flash is "bright" and covers her face.

Painting

That's all we've been doing this week. Carissa has steered clear until now because she doesn't like to get dirty. Tonight was a different story though. She was quite pleased that she had painted her hands, but she wanted them cleaned off immeadiately.

Missing My Baby

This was sent to me from Bekah who is watching Carissa today.  She apparently can take pictures of herself with other peoples cell phones. Too smart for me.

Kind Coffee

Even bears like it.

I'm at the Vineyard National Worship Leaders Retreat in Estes Park, CO this week. I am badly missing my wife and baby girl though. I'm here until Friday and then I'll get to see them again.

We're hanging out at Kind Coffee in downtown Estes Park this afternoon during our free time today. The retreat has been great so far. We've had some awesome times of worship and some good small group times.

Boots

We were at out on the deck at our new house today and Carissa was really enjoying the sound her boots made on the wood. She would march and stomp around trying to be as loud as possible.

About Our New Home

Some of you know this already, but the previous owners of the house were the Wilson family.

Wade was the senior pastor at Vineyard in Rolla until 2007 when his family, along with a few other people, left for La Crosse, WI to plant a church.

Wade and Lynne had the house built back in 1998. God blessed them so much with this house by loving on people using their house. I got to pray with them yesterday before they went back to Wisconsin and we prayed that God would continue to bless this house and that we would be able to love people with the house just the same.

The coolest thing about the house is in the basement. In the closet under the stairs, the Wilson's recorded the heights of their four children as they grew up on the door jam. It is going to be awesome to add Carissa's height along side theirs.