Ingram Family

Mike and JJ have been working non-stop on the basement. My dad is coming to visit at the end of September and he's bringing his boys so I want to make sure I'm utilizing all the space in the house so we're all as comfortable as possible. This way it'll also add another futon and then everyone will have beds including the guests. I could have double bunked some of the girls but you know it's nice to give everyone a little space and the reality is the rec room needed to get done anyway! Now I just have to start picking out colours to paint. I'm a little stuck on which way to go. The main floor is all browns and beige with a slight flare of red, Kelsey's room is bright pink and bright yellow, Cait's is several shades of orange .. my question, should I keep the basement more natural so it goes with the flow of the rest of the house, or should I keep the rec room flowing with the girls rooms more funky and bright colours. In my mind the rec room is more as the kids own living room, where they can play their kids, chill with the friends that sort of thing which is making me lean more towards keep with their colours .. but what do you think?

I had a huge yardsale on the weekend, with mom's help of course and made over $350 selling the junk out of the basement that we had to get rid of to make room for JJ to work downstairs to finish the rec room. I would say it was a huge success. Now $350 really isn't that much, but when you consider most of everything was priced at either .25 cents or my big thing was fill a bag of baby clothing for $3 .. that was a huge seller. Kelsey was a little annoyed with me at times for what she thought was way too low pricing, but the thing was I was going to donate it all, I didn't want anything for it, I just wanted it gone ... and this way it'll pay for some of the flooring and it was less for me to drive over to the donation bin!

We still have a lot of stuff packed into the last few days we have. Nanny is down visiting as we speak. We have the cornboil coming up in a few weeks at Henry's and my Dad is coming for a visit. Dad has never met JJ, Joeye or Josh so this really should be a lot of fun! Not to mention I haven't seen him or the boys in ages either.

Should I even mention my excitement for Henry's Hurricane's?

Hope everyone is having a great summer! I'll add a few random pics of summer, maybe camping although I don't seem to have many of those .. some filler pics to make my post look bigger anyway.