Painting DONE and TATS!

Well this past week was BUSY.. no other way to say it then just that, lol. Monday night was the start of painting the room at church which we got a TON done thanks to an awesome army of 14+ people! Tuesday AM & PM.. more painting but it was done after just two days! 6 hours in total!! That is amazing!! Considering there are 4 coats of yellow and red (one way is all red and then there are 2 walls with red on top) and 2 coats of all other colors except one! That is the power of awesome people!! We have a wonderful group... this I already knew.. but this past week really made me love them so much more! Thurs, I went shopping with Jill at Hobby Lobby and got a TON of awesome things to help decorate the room! Jill found some really great things before I got there! I am planning to work on the room some next week, but next Saturday will be the real work day! There is some wood working things to be done by the handy men and then painting of all that. It is coming together SO good! I totally forgot to get before pics... but I am going to steal some of other rooms people have taken. Then I will have LOTS of pics when it is all complete as it ROCKS! The kids are going to FLIP! I want to spend time in the room too!! ;)

Mark worked Tues and Thurs night and with church on Wed night, that made for a LONG week of me with the kids! Oh throw in two nights were I got only 4 hours of sleep...... aghh!! It felt so good to get so much done this week though, so I am focusing on that!

Last night, Mark and I went on a date.. ohlalala! Lori watched the kids.... and she is a saint for making us have a date.. thank you so much! We went to Nashville! It is sad... that was really the first time that Mark and I have done that by ourselves. We take peeps into Nash when they are in town and we go with the kids a good amount... but not just us! Of course, I can count the number of dates we have been on in the last year on one hand, lol. We had dinner at Jack's... that place is SO good! Then we walked along Broadway for quite awhile! I LOVE, LOVE city's.. love to be in them and do all the city life....... prefer to not live in them though.. now at least. I still have thoughts to live in Chitown! We went to an Irish Pub and had a drink or two (Mark his one limit, lol) and me two. Then we went to a tattoo place!!! :) I have been itching to start my back for years now and that helped inspire me! I would have gotten the first piece (a heart in the center of my back) if we had the money for it right now. I am going to use some of my bday money, I think. I am not going to cover my back at all... just pieces that symbolize me, Mark and each of my kids!! Yes, tattoos are SUPER addictive... and YES I love them... but NO I do not want many more... maybe, lol.

Tomorrow is a VERY big day for me.. Mark too! I am VERY excited and quite emotional as well! I canNOT wait to get immersed in the name of Jesus!!! :)