Living room almost done

Here's a picture of the living room after the new coat of paint. It's a grayish green but looks darker at night. The ceiling and walls are painted in the living room. All that's left is the baseboards and touch ups.

Darcie starting to paint the cupboards with the first coat. Below are her feelings after realizing they'll need more than one base coat.

Painting Ceilings Is The Worst

My extension wasn't very good so I painted like this for about 30 seconds until I snapped the roller handle. Had to upgrade to better extensions/poles

Painting Time

Some of the supplies

Didn't take long to get paint on us

Eating donuts before starting the ceiling

I painted the furniture while Darcie painted the ceiling

Pictures of grease

Sorry It's Been So Long

Here's some photo's of our new apartment. We've taken some before photo's so you can see the comparison before and after once we're finished. We've had to do a lot of cleaning, especially in the kitchen as you can see from some of the 'grease' pictures on the walls, stove, and cupboards. Probably years of cooking oily foods and not cleaning up afterwards.
Yesterday, Mason from BC who goes to school with Darcie came over to help us paint the ceiling which was really nice of him. That's the first time we've painted. We're doing the walls in the kitchen and living room next. Can't wait for paint to be done and have things set up normally again without plastic draped everywhere.
We couldn't believe the difference in the new paint on the ceiling and the color of the existing paint. We didn't think it looked as dated or dirty until we had the new white paint on. It was such a difference - like gray and white. Maybe you can see it in the pictures. Of course, we ended up needing more paint then we thought. Always the case isn't it. Paint will definitely be our most expensive costs with the changes we're doing. Weird thing was after we were done painting last night around 12, there were so many flies that found their way into the apartment, probably came up through the vents in the building. I suspected they smelt the new paint smell and congregated. Anybody else find that happen after they painted?

Family portraits

I thought it'd be fun if Darcie and I went to Value Village, bought some outdated, hidious clothes and got some pictures of us wearing them. Darcie was a little hesitant at first but got into it more once we got to Value Village and started finding the worst clothes we could. We got the pictures done at Wal-mart. It was a little embarrasing at times because people could see us dressed up getting the pictures taken but after a while, it didn't bother us. We were laughing a lot with the photographer because as soon as the picture was taken, you could view it on a computer screen to see if you wanted to keep it or not. We ended up having a lot of fun. Best part is, we exchanged all the ugly clothes for ones we actually would wear once we were finished with them. Well, Darcie did anyway.

I call this one The classic 80's couple portrait

Soap opera pose

Our first family portraits, continued

Motivational speakers

The outgoing, sporty couple

Kid entertainers

Classic 80's portrait
Psycho husband in 80's portrait