I think the best part of the evening was my new (size 12!) dress!
Girls are so much fun to shop for because they have ADORABLE little dresses like this :)
So much fun!
We're done! Thanks for being my master's degree partner in crime!
2009-MA Education, Curriculum and Instruction
The 5:30 pm Wednesday night group is a bit rowdy, but wonderful. We decided to wear pink! This is about 1/3 of our group before starting the 5K.
Wendy's goal was to finish strong and she did it! I've loved getting to know her over the past few months as she's kicked some weight loss butt!
Jeanie is another member who makes me laugh throughout the entire meeting each week. 
Donna is our meeting leader and the best one there is in the organization. Her meetings are packed each week (we have 65 members in ONE meeting) because she is amazing.
A few more people joined us at 11 for the second 5K; a few of us decided to do it again!
Riverside is hot. Especially after walking 6.2 miles. I was hot, thus the face. 
Reese was tired. She walked all 6.2 miles of it too.
As Dave learned in other rooms, texturing without protecting the ceiling and floor is a bad idea. After using a $2.15 roll of paper to protect our hard work, we had to figure out how to block off the part between the addition and bedroom.
Reese wanted to be our constant compainion, but kept getting in the way. She didn't really like the top of the ladder though.
Dave mixed the texture to the right consistancy (pancake batter according to Dave).
Reese just wanted to sleep in my hands (notice the drowsy look on her face) and she didn't really like the fact that I wasn't sitting. I needed one of those baby biorn things to carry her around in.
With the help of the air compressor and Dave's Harbor Freight texture gun, the texture in the addition was done in less than 20 minutes.
Our house has all plaster ceilings and because we're cheap (plastering is beyond Dave's expertise and hiring someone to do it is REALLY extensive), we were not able to have a "plaster" ceiling in the addition. We have drywall, smooth drywall. The problem lies in Dave's need for perfection--plaster and drywall will not match naturally, this began our need to texture to ceiling so thinly that it didn't look textured, yet match 71 years of paint (paint rolling bumps). After 30 minutes of messing with the mud and practicing on scrap pieces of wood and drywall, it took Dave 10 minutes to texture the ceiling.
This handy set up was used to keep the texture in the room where it belongs instead of all over the place--it was the originally part of the drywall hanging experience.
With the door and windows tapped off, this texture experience took 20 minutes and the ceiling added another 5! By 11:30, we headed off to eat. Farmer Boys was calling our name (since it was no longer breakfast time) and Home Depot couldn't be avoided. Harbor Freight got our attention for a paint sprayer (pink closet will be white soon) and Baker's provided a well-deserved Oreo milkshake.
5 minutes later, she was tired, but kept going and going...
20 minutes later she was done and dirty!
While Melissa sanded, Dave and I cleaned up all the dust (seriously, dust go away!!) and began painting. We have a green tinted primer that will help dramatically when we paint the green wall color onto the wall. We used almost three gallons of primer because the new drywall and texture suck up the paint pretty dramatically.
I cut in the corners and ceiling while Dave rolled the high parts.
(This color is only the primer--the "real" color hasn't been put on the wall yet)
