Brenda's Very Own Home Makeover

After working on Brenda's house this week, I think Ty Pennington has some competition on his hands. Here are some pictures of Brenda's house. She took all of the BEFORE pictures, so I only have the ones I took AFTER. But I think you can all visualize what it looked like before.

The Living Room: New Piano:
The Kitchen:

New Food Pantry:

Stuff we hauled to the DI:

Makayla having herself a tupperware party:

Do we look EXAUSTED?

Makayla was such a good baby this week. I really couldn't have got done what I did without her being as good natured as she is/was. It would have been nice to have Grandma Carley up here to entertain, but we seemed to manage with all of Vanessa's friends that came over.

In addition to cleaning the living room and kitchen, we also cleaned out all of her cupboards in her laundry room. The hallway was cleared of all the debri, and it also has some fresh paint. This week's task is to work on the bedrooms so we can move Vanessa into the bigger room.

I know some people may think I am nuts, but I feel really good being able to help Brenda out. I think she just needed a little help getting going. Heck, when we left last night at 11:30, she was still working on DIing some of Vanessa's clothes. It actually surprised me how easy it was for her to get rid of things once we started. On Friday night after we left (at midnight), she went to Walmart and bought $200 worth of stuff: new rugs, new garbage can, plants, ... Her house really does look different!