Sunday Funday

The next big project we have for the house is painting the basement.  Since we have a Michigan basement it can look sort of grungy and gross.  When we walked through houses on our house hunt, we noticed that painted Michigan basements (gray floors and white walls) looked so much nicer.  We bought the floor paint and floor cleaner shortly after moving in and now we just need to get stuff for the walls.  We will need a paint sprayer because the walls are sort of crumbly.  

So, on Sunday we spent whole afternoon cleaning out our basement.  Almost everything is in plastic bins that we invested in after getting the house (highly recommend getting 15-20).....and yes I also get the colorful holiday bins for my holiday decorations :).  Of course I couldn't just move them...I had to go through them as well!   I had (no joke) 5 or 6 bins of stuff that I had saved for a classroom....overkill much?  I grabbed the stuff I wanted to bring to school and condensed the rest of it into one bin.  The one bin I couldn't bring myself to look too closely at was my bin of college papers and notebooks that I saved in case I needed to reference some historical subject (yeah right...google here I come!)...but I also couldn't bring myself to dump it quite yet.  Poor Brandon had the job of carrying all of the bins (including the super heavy college and book bins) all the way up to the second floor bedroom.  Here are some pictures of the process.  

We had these bins up on pallets in case we got water in the basement....but we didn't!  You never know in a new house.

We vacuumed off the lids because they had already gotten dusty and ear-wiggy....yuck.

After...all cleared out.

Stuff to bring to school....do we own a truck?

My hot husband (both figuratively and literally...lol) carrying the pallets out to the garage.

Our guest bedroom now :). 3 bins deep and 3 or 4 high!

The corner is all cleared out!

We spent the last hour going through all of the tools and, can I call it crap (?), that was all over from all the different projects.  We returned stuff to my dad, put things away (Brandon needs a big ole' manly tool chest for Christmas) and started 2 garage sale boxes.  Phew.  Needless to say, we got a LOT accomplished!  

We ended our night by taking Zoey for a nice walk and spending some time with her.

She loves us. :)