Redecorating, part 2

Finishing touches have been made to our redecoration. Here's a look...

Here's our bedroom.

Not really different except the wall color.

The elliptical is what is under the sheet above. My last one broke. This one is huge but I love it. Thankfully Brett let us move his desk into the guest bedroom (currently Silas' room) so there would be space since the machine was too big for the living room.

I had ordered a wall verse (from trading phrases) and my mom sent it and the package arrived this week. When Jessica was over for dinner, I used her help to put it up. This area is quite high- we are standing on a ladder on the kitchen table so that we could get high enough to reach the verse.

1 Chronicles 29:14 Everything comes from you and we have given you only what comes from your hand.

I think the boys' room is my favorite room of all that we painted. It kind of had two themes- blue and then safari. I was going for "boy blue" but it ended up looking like I just tried to make a Caroline blue room. I'm ok with that. :)

Here's the before:

Gotta love the pink flowers that were there for years.

And the after...

We just got the third bed today. Even though I wanted all the beds to be the same, each one is different. The carpenter always had the measurements. And pictures. But nothing is precise in Mali. The new bed, which was supposed to be Silas' was about 6 in taller than the others. (I knew the drawers looked bigger but I couldn't figure out why. It's hard to tell when they aren't with the others). So now we've had to switch beds and Dawson gets the biggest bed and Silas will take Dawson's. Funny, because when we got the second bed, we had to give Dawson's to Kenan and Dawson take the new one because they had made it too wide and it wouldn't fit where it was supposed to. The boys wanted to sleep in the same spots so we had to change beds. So Dawson has gotten to use all three of the beds. :)

I got the shelves from Target and then the animal baskets to go with the pictures on the wall.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14

These are from the safari we went on while we were in Kenya. So not only are these cool shots- they are the animals we saw in person. I think that's fun for the boys. They chose which animals they wanted and I think they picked what goes with their personality. Not surprised at all that Dawson took the lion, after all, he is the king of his brothers. :)

Kenan picks animals in numbers, 3 zebras, two giraffes. He loves being around others.

Ok, don't know how these as much fit with Silas' personality, but he does love these animals. He's always talking about "go on el-phant" and then raises his hand as he makes noise like an elephant. No, we didn't ride an elephant, but he definitely remembers seeing them.