Cake

I love this ribbon, it's so fitting.... Trisha gave me this and its my new favorite quote...I was thinking about wearing it as a belt, a hair thing, arm band.

Mid Week Musings

Yesterday Ashley and the kids and I loaded up and made a quick trip to Lind to see Lyndsy while he is driving wheat combine. It was a beautiful day and a nice little mid day get away.

And since we were only minutes from this gal we stopped to see Lyndenn for a short visit! Always fun though!

Summer Sunsets during storm season are always gorgeous!

Skunks, Trenches, and Sarah

Friday afternoon I took off for a visit to Sarah in Puyallup and to shoot a wedding with her on Saturday. Which means Brian was left to his own vices...Saturday he dug a huge trench in the lawn to revamp some of the sprinkler system. I think he is just making projects up to use the backhoe. Sunday morning Maddy got skunked, this is problematic for 2 reasons. She stinks and she HATES baths. Actually Brian and I have NEVER bathed her...so when I got home we took a crack at it. Lets just say she was mad at us for a little bit.

Sarah and I at the wedding! Gotta love this girl, whenever we hang out it is never short of lots of laughs and fun!

TA-DA and Weekend Guests

Saturday morning when I left my house looked like this.....

Saturday night when I came home from a wedding my house looked like this....my husband is a saint. He worked from 5:30 am to 5 at night, with no lunch mind you. A painter came over and helped him, so that was heaven sent. But they worked really hard! Sad to say I have no pictures of the progress cause I was gone most the day.

Here's the other side. Yay! Once the new windows arrive we can finish the trim work and be done! Wahoo!

This weekend Alan, Amy, and little Miss Nora came for a weekend visit. We did all kinds of fun stuff like take advantage of the hot weather and run around in a diaper, Nora not me, played in the hose, went swimming, etc.

We took naps on the lawn in the shade.

We ate corn fresh out of the field...I love the first corn of the season....so good!

We played in the back of the truck with the dog.

We even did manual labor. She's old enough right. In the final prepping for the painter we trimmed the shrubs and cleaned it all up. Nora was a big help.

We even went down to the river for a swim! Phew, what a weekend!

Progress

My husband really is the hardest working dude I know. Not only does he go to work at some insane hour, every chance he gets he is working on the house. He has been doing alot of this lately....

Maddy has been doing alot of this...

And me, well let's just say I am slacking in the painting department...Emily came up to see her mom for a quick trip so Jonda and I ran to Wenatchee for lunch and a little visit! We some how ended up wearing very similar outfits...random...great minds think alike!

Miss Mary Jean

Saturday Jonda and I shot the wedding of Rob and Jen in Moses Lake...2 reasons I had fun at this wedding, 1 becuase it was a wedding and I got to eat cake, and another reason, I got to see Mary Jean. Jean has been a friend since we were little...I was a bridesmaid in her wedding and her and Jeremy were a huge help at our wedding. They moved to Colfax a few years ago and I love when I get to see her, she is a kick in the pants!

Adventures in House Painting

The man lift was completed and works like a charm...it spins and even he even built a power box on it to plug things in....i told him it was missing a cup holder. This weekend has consisted mostly of prepping...which is by far the worst part of painting.

We completed the power washing, moved onto scraping, re-caulking, and sanding.

Maddy and Brian enjoying a ride on the hoe.

It's even handy for those hard to get to light bulbs!

I did accomplish 1 thing and that was getting the cat condo painted. Here is the color we chose, its called bean pot, I have a thing for brown....Its my go to color. This just needs some touch up and trim work and it's done!

The biggest thing Brian got accomplished was this wall! The south side of the house gets hammered with sun, therefore it was the worst and needed the most prepping. He finished it today and I got it all primed!

Slowly but surely we will get this daunting task completed, it might take another 2 weeks atleast....I actually contemplated falling off the ladder today in order to get out of it...