Happy ARBOR DAY!

I joined the arbor day foundation a few weeks ago.  With my membership I was given 10 free trees to plant!
 http://www.arborday.org/shopping/memberships/memberships.cfm?trackingid=528
I gave away several of them, because they probably wouldn't grow well in Corinne (according to some people) and they weren't really what I have planned for our yard anyway.  But I did plant the few I kept.  They are just tiny little sticks in dirt right now, but it will be fun to watch them grow at our new home, as the years go by.
I also got 2 more free trees today.  I had to swing into walmart to get more tape for packing boxes, and Nucor Steel was out in front giving away the state tree to celebrate Arbor day!  Blue Spruce wasn't in the landscaping plan either, but now I think I will incorporate them anyway, cuz they are so cute :0)  Probably going to be putting them between our yard and the Hardy's on the west side of us.  Not sure yet if I want to put them in the front of the yard or in the back yard.
To learn about the first Arbor day go here:
http://www.arborday.org/arborday/history.cfm

I love nature and love that I get to have a beautiful yard full of beautiful plants and trees.

and since you have been so patient

here are the colors on the walls......

Packing and Stacking

I definately want to take these fellas along :)

It is starting to get mighty crowded around here.

So tomorrow, Sat. May 1 !!!!  is National Scrapbook Day.  It is not my fault that my big scrappy day landed on the weekend we should be moving in.  As we got closer to being finished, Tyson said that we could move in slowly, and that I could scrapbook on sat.  Well, he changed his mind (I thought only women were allowed to do that).  He announced that Monday would be our big move in date.  So instead of taking my time getting the walls painted, then packing and moving things a little at a time - I am stressing out, I painted every free second I had, and packing is just crazy, and then we had to take our SUV to the shop, so I couldn't even move stuff after I packed it- the boxes literally have no where to go in this tiny apartment.  I tried as hard as I could to keep my "ME" day, but alas, in order to have anyone to help us, we had to do most of the moving on sat.  (most people don't have mondays off, like Tyson does).  So I am determined that I will get at least 5 hours (7am to noon) of my scrapping, and then I will relinquish myself to the "important" tasks that demand my time.
I don't have a lot of scrapping people in my life (just my online scrapjazz friends) - so no one understands this fight I have been putting up.  my brother tried to tell me that I could celebrate national scrapbook day next weekend instead -- to put it into terms others could understand I said "telling a scrapper they don't need to scrap on National Scrapbook Day cuz they can do scrapbooking any other time, is like telling a soccer player they don't need to go play in their game cuz they can kick a ball around anytime."
last year I actually won a BIG prize - it was so sweet to get rewarded for doing my hobby that I love (and spend so much $$ on LOL).
so anyway -- tomorrow, the big MOVE starts -- well, actually I moved clothes over today - just put them in big black trash bags after sorting and folding the clean laundry.  I ran some over while Thomas was at school.  Then ran over a second load after he came home.  He thought it was so cool that we had clothes in our closets :)
We also walked next door to visit his buddies Nicholas and Joshua.  They are the boys he's been playing with this whole time we have been building - they moved today.  So when I told him we were going to go see them at their house, he started to head to the car, and I told him we were just going to walk there.  He was a little surprized, I think, to finally understand that they are going to be NEXT DOOR!!!!!

paint is done

I know this post is worthless without pictures, but my camera battery is dead, so you will have to wait.
But I am so in love with all the colors.  It was long hard work, but I am done, and I am happy with the results.  (except the laundry room, I bought the color on a whim, and it will take some getting used to - or repainting  - I wanted a color to brighten up the room, but the light shimmery blue that I picked just makes it look darker.  so we will see about that one)

now to pack and make the big move.

picking the colors

the cutest helper EVER

so today I sat out at the house for a little while.  I spread all the color samples out on the blue carpet, and  tried to decide which "tan/brown" I liked for the living room, and which blue for the bedroom.  It was a lot harder than I ever imagined.  LOL.

but after much deliberation here are the ones I have settled on!!

midnight dream (dark blue) for the bedroom

Frappe' (grey) for the dining room

and Cafe' Au Lait (I don't even know how to pronounce that) (tan) for the living room

Keep your fingers crossed for me, that it all works out awesome in the end!

aww, I am flattered

Thomas is getting better at drawing.  This, he says, is a picture of me.  isn't that sweet!

Sneak Peek Tour

made a video for ya'll to see my house in the final stage!!!
It's still dirty cuz I did the video before I finished the cleaning up, cuz I wanted to do it in the daylight (those cfl lights are a bit dim)
I wonder when the reality of it all is going to hit me?