Holy projects, Batman! My husband has had the past 2 1/2 weeks off of school and we have been trying to tackle projects outside and around the house. Some of his buddies also had a fence and a floor to install, so they went from house to house helping each other. Here they are working on our fence!

getting a little tired of working together...

Do you think we need a new fence?

I am just kidding! I'm just being dumb. It was in such awful shape and was barely holding on through our last wind storm. My husband is actually working on that this week.

Even more important:

American Idol.

Which David are you rooting for?? We're pulling for Archuleta here~he just has an angel voice, and seems like the sweetest guy. BUT, I do love Cook's Always Be My Baby. So, vote in our very official poll on the side here and we'll compare notes after the finale!

Odd socks.

Remember the good old days of SNL and Jack Handey? We were just being dumb last night and remembering~I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

*It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

*Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Thanks for all your comments with the beams. I loved hearing the different perspectives and my husband was thrilled that his thoughts on the beams won out! Wednesday was an awful day! I really have lost all shame to post a picture of me and my house looking like that, but welcome to a day in our real life. I drilled my finger, I ran out of paint, my baby only took a one hour nap, and I repainted the faux finish by the fireplace 3 times! I had done the one above the piano on Monday night and when I went to do the other on Wed, I could not get them to look even closely the same. Lesson to be learned: if you do the faux paint finishes, do them at the same time!

Another question that people love to ask: how do you paint with 4 kids? My one year old's naptime and from 8:30-midnight are our magic transforming times, my friends. This is a painfully slow process. In blog time, it looks like it happens overnight, but mostly it' s just an hour here and hour there. Wherever I am painting is always just in shambles...sheets everywhere, paint supplies strewn all over, furniture pushed to the middle. But when people come over, you just say, excuse the mess, we're remodeling. What am I going to say now?

Okay, rambling! My final answer for the beams right now? Drumroll........(like you haven't already scrolled down and seen the pictures!)