Primer, Paint, & Pumpkins - Oh My!

This was yet another packed full weekend for the Schmidt family. Operation "Finish the basement before Abby's birthday" was in full swing with A LOT of painting this week and weekend. Tim and I have been painting after we put Abby to bed and this weekend got a second coat on all the big rooms. Closets, hallway, and bathroom are still "in progress". All I know is that I love the 18 inch roller. Beyond home improvements we also managed to do some fun things this weekend. Tim's parents and sister came to visit Saturday afternoon and we headed out to McCoy's pumpkin patch for some fun.

Here is Abby inside the log cabin, you'll notice from the photos she was in there quite a bit, she was having tea parties with other kids that would come in.

Here she is in the maze. I'm not sure what it was growing other than she kept saying "Ouch" as she walked through. I doubt she was really in pain, she just likes to say ouch these days.
There were some very small baby kittens that Abby had to keep checking on. The mom was in there for a while to feed them and then went off. Abby made it her quest to find her and try to bring her back. She ran around saying "Meow - where are you?". It was pretty cute. She wasn't too thrilled to find the dad cat, he was a little bit bigger.
More action in the cabin, just checking out to see where we are at, and to see the donkeys.
This was Abby's view outside the window of the cabin. The McCoy's have a small herd of donkeys.


More time in the cabin, she really didn't want to leave that part.


Tim thinks he can build one in his free time.....
Photos of the basement - this is the hallway. The door on the right leads to the great room and the door on the left is the bathroom, closet straight a head. This actually only has primer on it, a darker color is on it's way this week.
Here is what is going to be the spare bedroom downstairs. It actually does have the second coat of paint on it but looks a little funny with the flash, it's just beige, nothing exciting there. Especially when it's in all three rooms, you get a little tired of it.
Decisions, decisions......

We also managed to watch Mizzou get stomped and why Texas is really #1. We'll see if there is a rematch in the Big 12 Championship game IF Mizzou can pull off the Big 12 North. That is still to be determined. The Slenker's & Rice's came over to watch the game and BBQ but left at halftime since it was such a blowout. I was asleep not much longer after that, I didn't see a comeback in the future for Mizzou. At least Iowa beat Wisconsin so the weekend wasn't a total loss in football.

Next weekend is a wedding in Carrollton, so expect to see pictures of Abby getting her groove on with her cousins. She's been practicing her dancing.