No Relief

WHEN WILL THIS HEAT END??!!

I am getting really tired of the heat!

Of course I could handle it when it nicely cooled off at night, but when the house is feeling hotter at night than it did during the day, I can't hack it!

Last night Leah and I slept in the basement on the hide-a-bed, but poor daddy had to fight the heat as well as ELijah and Caidy.

They are saying it will be 40 or more on Friday, ummmm ya.

I can't wait for Winter!!

BRING ON THE SNOW AND MITTS AND -30!! (he he he)

Powder Room

I am so happy that 1 room in the house is now FINISHED!!! I finally hung up some decorations to pull everything together and the Powder Room is done. From my earlier post you may remember me saying that even after we finished painting the countertop we had to redo it because of the verithane, and then after the 2nd time painting we went out and bought the right verithane and there are STILL yellow spots!! AHHHHH!!! I guess it is just the paint reacting and we will never get a true white counter, but at least I now am comfortable enough to show pictures!!

Summer Fun

I love having Raspberry bushes in the back yard, between James and the kids it has been a fight to be able to have enough, but today I was able to get out their early enough ... to make a delicious fresh Raspberry Cheesecake!!
And then today Elijah and Leah thought it would be fun to have a mud-fight while I was busy picking. They have been told so many times to not play in the mud, but this was ridiculous!!
I think Leah was trying to pose so that you couldn't see all the mud that was thrown on her back and down her legs...
And finally to end the crazy day, Elijah playing in the ball pit we bought for his birthday from Great Grandma and Grandpa Johnson.
As much as I love the summer and being able to play outside, I am beginning to notice it is way more work than any other Season. Between loads of laundry after the beach, or playing in the yard and, of course, mud fights. My days are getting longer and longer as the summer progresses. I am really glad, though, that here is cools off so nice in the evenings, that by the time the kids actually fall to sleep James and I can sit outside and relax. I really love the patio furniture we picked out and am loving the time we spend enjoying it!!

Happy Birthday Elijah!!

It is hard to believer that my baby boy is 3! Elijah is such a great little guy, he is sweet, kind and a little shy! He is crazy at times, doing things that I would have never expected out of a 3 year old and always amazing James and I. He already loves baseball and all sports for that matter. He also is mesmerized with music and we are really excited to maybe get him into guitar lessons in the next year. Elijah is definitely my little monkey and I love him to pieces!!!

Elijah during his birthday dinner! We asked him what he wanted and steak and shrimp it was!! The boy has great taste and it was a great day!!

Christina Lake

Leah digging a trench, her and Elijah were trying to make a hottub! Caidy walking in the water

Leah "swimming"!
Elijahs nice sandy back!

We have been spending quite a few evenings at the lake trying to cool off. It has just been so hot during the day, that we have opted to go out in the evening and let the kids cool off before bedtime.

June 28th Pictures in Wild Flowers

I can take a hint!

Subtle or not :)

I have had 5 people in the last day tell me that I need an update on this blog! Hmmmm I guess I can think of something to tell you all!

I feel like it has been so busy in the last little while and I am really loving it. There was something intimidating about the city for me that kept me cooped up in the house more than I would have liked too be, but here in a smaller town I am loving the feeling of freedom. Although they are over now for the year, I was kept busy during the week with play groups and bible study. Now that summer is here the other moms and I try to get together at least once a week, for our kids and our own sanity! We went up to Christina Lake today with 2 other families and had a great time, the kids loved the water and although I was great about sunscreen for them I am bright red! Oh well, at least they aren't. I am also looking forward to go tubing down the river, everyone spends the day at the river here and am hoping James will give it a try with me!He has never liked swimming, but maybe for me he will :)

We have also been doing tons of Reno's around here. It feels like the more we do, the more doesn't get finished!! Right now we are waiting for an electrician to clean up the mess we made from removing a wall, and once that is done we can paint and finish the island and get counter tops!! We also scraped the old ceiling, WOW that was way more work than I expected, but that also has to wait for the electrician before we can paint and finish! James has been trying to get a couple different guys in here to look, but they are pretty booked up.

I have also been working on the powder room on the main floor. It was dark forest green and AWFUL!! They painted everything from the fan to the outlet covers green. A very big job to clean up, but it was well worth the work and was looking great... Until I decided I wanted to paint the counter top. The old owners had spray painted it, it looked retarded and was super ugly. I painted it with a melamine paint and had just started putting urethane on it when a problem arose. The lady at the store gave me tinted stuff instead of clear, it looked so bad. I tried to sand it off, and got impatient so tried to scrape it and then scraped to the old counter top and now we will have to get an electric sander and sand it all down and start again.... AHHHHH just when I think at least one thing can get finished I have to start again.

The kids are all dong well, Elijah has his 3rd birthday coming up on Sunday, the 8th and James' parents are coming out for the weekend. Leah is loving the sunshine and could spend hours running through the sprinkler. Caidy has almost started walking!! She can take about 5 steps in a row before she starts laughing and falls down, I don't think it will be too much longer, this morning she walked to me without me even having to coax her.

I can't really think of much else to say, we had some professional pictures taken last week from a girlfriend of mine so I will post some of those soon!!