It's a Jungle...In Here?

Ok, so as part of "M's Birthday Prep Week, Part 2" we are starting redoing R & E's room. The people who lived in this house had a boy, so the girl's room was covered on two walls with glued brown paper sacks that looked like this:

That is essentially brown paper sacks, and Elmer's glue, lots and lots of glue. Good news was if we got it wet, it would start to peel off! 2 walls had this on it and 2 walls looked like this:

Do you remember that scene on "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" where she said the neighbors could check out their subtle tribute to the Greek flag, then it pans up and their garage is painted to look exactly like a greek flag? Yeah, that came to mind when I saw this room! Check out the star, it is a window shade!
Ok, so we peeled paper and peeled paper and under the first wall we found this:

That is khaki and those are stenciled animal prints around the closet door (BTW the closet door was red to go with the Texas theme.
And then under the next wall we found this:


Giraffe, Leopard, Tiger and Zebra? What? Keep in mind as I took this picture, the walls to my right and behind me, still look like the Texas flag! Wild! The girls though this was funny, but, mind you, continued to ask when we could get to the pink paint!
Needless to say we are priming the walls!
This is what happens when you buy a house with lots of history!!!

Back to the land of the living!

So, sorry for no correspondence with anyone the last week or two, our computer went kaplooey. It was anticipated, but as always, ill-timed since we are waiting on the insurance adjuster to give us the verdict on our roof. You know, the hail storm..... Anywho, I am overhauling the house in anticipation for M's 1st birthday party next weekend. All grandparents will be coming so I am working on getting the girl's rooms rearranged and ready. It will be lots of fun when everyone is here, but right now I have an overwhelming todo list! I finished the back flower beds today though!

I totally finished the study so I will post pictures of that when we get the computer box out! Woohoo! Another room bites the dust!

Tom got an unheard of 4-day weekend for the 4th so we got to see all of my family! That was great, and a major blessing to get to see Bonnie and Scott before they head out this next weekend! :-( Their moving is giving us an excuse to plan a field trip to Pennsylvania! Independence Hall here we come!!!!

Well, I am off to enjoy the rest that naptime brings to Mommies before the evening commences!