WOW! It has been a crazy summer so far. With the floods, company, camps, cleanup, etc... it has been crazy this month and we are sure hoping that it settles down for the next two months of summer. Not that we haven't had some fun, but with the two semi-disaters in the basement and company in town for both of them and then surgery the next week-it wasn't quite what it should have been. Among all that we did get some fun in- We had the Payne family in town from Farmington, NM Joanne, David, Brian [a buddy], Josh, Jared, and Issac all came in Sunday night. Joanne and I took the 3 oldest: Ashleigh, Brian and David to Provo the next day for EFY at BYU. Then shopped our hearts out on the way back. It was then that we came up with this master plan. . . We stopped by Rod Works in Lehi and saw a great frame on the wall. I have been wanting to get this huge saying put up on my wall but just couldn't quite come up with a way to put it all together on the huge, tall wall that accompanies the stairs in our house. So.....let the work begin. Joanne and I did most of the prep work and then on the weekend when her husband George came into town Nef and he got up on the ladders and hung everything and got it almost all done! Just one little thing-one of the boards that I had painted got cut wrong at the ends-or we would have had it all finished before they left. It is almost done though and I'm loving it. I will have to have Joanne email a picture of her wall when she gets it done and then I'll add it to my blog too. Lots of work and had she not been here it would never had been completed-Thanks Joanne!!!
We marked the walls, figured out where to center it, then got up on ladders that were not all too stationery on the stairs. I forgot to take a picture of that - and then used a plastic bag to paint the wall. We both agreed that we spent more time looking for the right baseboards, paint and supplies than we did actually putting the project up on the wall!
Look-3 sides of the frame are up and now the words are going on the wall-slow process-making sure every little bit goes on straight and none of the letters get mangled or bubbled when they were put up on the wall-that is what George was good for-very patient-in fact the room had to be SILENT while he was working and he had Brian and David holding the ladders for him. He freaked out when he saw what he had to climb up on and how we had rigged the ladders with phone books and Harry Potter books to be even and lean against the walls. We were all laughing and it was truly causing him great stress. All turned out well-as you can see.
Look-3 sides of the frame are up and now the words are going on the wall-slow process-making sure every little bit goes on straight and none of the letters get mangled or bubbled when they were put up on the wall-that is what George was good for-very patient-in fact the room had to be SILENT while he was working and he had Brian and David holding the ladders for him. He freaked out when he saw what he had to climb up on and how we had rigged the ladders with phone books and Harry Potter books to be even and lean against the walls. We were all laughing and it was truly causing him great stress. All turned out well-as you can see.
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