What a busy holiday weekend!

Wow, we have had a super productive holiday weekend so far! I have done a LOT of painting, and McGee has finished a million other items from our to-do list. One of the many things that McGee did was switch out our hallway light! The light fixture that was there was very 80s and brassy (there's a lot of 80s brass around our house...), but we love the new light we picked out. 

The original light fixture... 

And our new one:

I've been working very hard on painting (I somehow even gave myself a few blisters on my hand from painting?). Our living room is painted (except for our accent wall, which will eventually be a nice blue color), and our halls are all painted now. All of the walls in our house were coated in primer by the last owner, so they were all white but starting to pick up smudges and dirt (oh the joys of having a dog...). Here are some pictures of the newly painted living room and halls:

I don't know how well you can tell in this pic, but the living room is a nice beigey grey color now. 

Ignore the boxes everywhere! That's stuff for our bathroom (lighting, sink, etc). And the wall on the right (that isn't painted yet) will be blue. 

Here's our hall (with the new light!). It's a darker beige-grey color. 

Here you can kinda see the difference between the two colors. 

McGee also got our bat house attached to one of our trees, and the biggest thing the McGee did this weekend (I told you he was busy!!) was he fixed a leaky pipe in our basement. This was something that HAD to be done before we head to CA, because the pipe wouldn't have been ok leaking for that long. Poor McGee had to make 3 trips to Home Depot, but he did an amazing job of fixing the pipe!  

There's our bat house! It's probably about 18 or 20 feet off the ground (they recommend at least 15 feet off the ground). 

Here's the pipe that McGee fixed! He had to cut it in a few spots and attach some stuff... I know nothing about it, but it looks impressive to me and it's bone dry now!