Who knew all of three of you were still out there keeping an eye on my little bloggy world? Thank you for your kind comments about my happy kitchen project!As a token of my appreciation, I will share this moment of vacation-y scrumptiousness:
The Bambino(3) LOVED the wading pool when we went to Sunriver last month. He especially liked the fountain in the middle. The Scoutmaster caught him mid-shower.
It was a very good day.
The Scoutmaster and the Boy Scout have been off at Boy Scout camp this week. They're having a great time!
Meanwhile, back at the House of Coast, I took on the fun task of painting the kitchen. I just finished. I LOVE IT! It makes me disproportionately happy. Now I'm itching to paint the rest of the house, pronto! Thankfully, this should be the most challenging room, dealing with all of the cabinets and windows. Ack! The cutting-in!
You can see a picture of what it looked like before (blah!) here.
I'm not sure if the color is just right in the pictures, but it's close. It's a really nice, deep orange. I might take another picture tomorrow in the daylight.
In case you were wondering: Yes. The Scoutmaster approved the color before he left. In fact, I was on the verge of wimping out and he went to the store and bought the orange I really wanted. He's the best!
I chose the color using the awesome tools at the Sherwin-Williams website, by the way. It was really fun to try different colors on the wall and to get a feel for what they would look like.
Sorry, Tami, I don't mean to cause you project-envy. I'm sure the Engineer will let you paint something when he gets back!
Ack! So sorry I've been conspicuously absent from the blog lately. Summer is keeping me busier than usual and I'm finding it difficult to sit down and process pictures, much less coherent thoughts.
We are having a really nice summer. The Ducklings are swimming every day. We finally had a return to summer weather after a week of miserable clouds and cold. We spent the Fourth with good friends and family. Boy Scout Camp is zooming into view, with my high school reunion right on its heels.
I love summer! This year I find myself struggling to balance everything and get it all done in a day, but I'm hoping to find some kind of rhythm soon... although it's not likely. Soon enough, swimming will be done and we can return to some sense of "normal." Hopefully, by then, I'll have it all together. Ha!
Love,
Brenda
While on vacation this weekend, we spent some time at a really nice swimming pool. The weather didn't cooperate, but the pool was beautiful. It has a large pool with a slide for the swimmers and a huge wading pool with a fountain for the littles.
The Boy Scout, D, and Girlfriend swam until they'd had all they could take. Girlfriend conquered the slide, now that she is swimming so well.
Sunshine and The Bambino were super happy in the wading pool. I'll share some great pictures of all the wet Ducklings later.
The Sprout hung out with The Scoutmaster and me. Before long, he was feeling quite confident and comfortable in the new surroundings and he began toddling around exploring. He is at such a fun age right now. He's so much fun to watch. Everything delights him and he loves to entertain us. We've always loved the 15 month stage.
It's all so bittersweet, watching the baby grow up. We love every new, joyful thing he does, but we know it will pass all too quickly.
We are all, here at the House of Coast, hopelessly smitten with this little man.
Summer has swung into high gear here at the House of Coast! I just downloaded a bunch of great pictures from my camera and got them backed up, but it will take me a few days to get some edited for sharing. Lots of fun stuff!We were away for the weekend and had a wonderful time relaxing as a family. None of us wanted to come home. But good things awaited here, too. Today we had swimming and The Boy Scout started Jr. Sailing School out at the lake and we have a little girlie friend over for all day. The energy level is running very high - the kids' not mine! And we are enjoying the sunny, windy coast day.In Central Oregon over the weekend, my sweet girlies found these wild irises and buttercups way out in the woods and brought me a few as a gift. I hated to throw them out when we left to come home, but knew they wouldn't survive the trip. So I took a picture.
Back soon with more!
Just popping in to say that the S OR Coast has not fallen off into the ocean.
We had a fabulous, busy weekend of All Star Baseball games and Father's Day BBQ.
Summer swimming started on Monday and has caused me to have to shift into a different gear in order to get school and chores and cooking and cleaning and playing all to fit together gracefully into each day. I think the investment of extra energy this week is paying off, though. I can feel a nice summer groove starting to form, which was my goal for this week. Hopefully, I can get everyone into a routine that will work for the next eight weeks, at least!
Oh, and we finally got a sunny day yesterday after weeks and weeks and weeks of gloom and rain and cold. Hallelujah!! It was such a treat to be outside and to be WARM. Saturday is the first day of summer. I can finally start to see it from here.(For those of you with actual summer, our high yesterday was something like 65.)
(Oops, I just checked and the official high for yesterday was 59. It just FELT like 65... Ah, summer on the Oregon Coast.)
And we have done lots of this:
Reaching the top!
And we have done lots of this:
Reaching the top!
