Garden..

My garden is doing good, it is my very favorite place to hang out right now. This picture is from my garden swing that I just moved this year to the edge of the garden and I love it. The boys and I sit out there all the time or I sit there when they are playing outside sometimes, or they sit there and watch me weed. Anyhow it is very relaxing.

Our house is coming right along. We have finished one side and worked out all the kinks so now it should go up alot faster. With just Kevin and I doing it all I think we have made good progress. One of Kevin's friends is going to help him with it on Saturday evening too so they should be able to get some done then... We still need to decide what color to paint.

We had some relatives in town so we went to see the Volcanoes play a little baseball. Fun times were had by all especially the boys. Carter got to go out onto the field and sing "Take me out to the ball game" with some other kids.

New pendants..

I just got these today in the mail and I love them. I ordered them from Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/). It is an online store for homemade goodies of all kinds, arts, crafts, etc. These pendants are made from scrabble tiles. So cool. I ordered 2 and got one free. They are soo reasonable too, only like $6.00 each and they have lots of different styles. Here is the link for these specifically. http://www.homestudio.etsy.com/

New siding, etc, etc.

We are in the process of re-siding our house and painting (obviously) and adding some new cedar shake trim. I am soo excited. Here is a picture of our house before (we are taking out all the brick in front too) and then one from today which was demo day 1.

Kevin's younger brothers both came over this morning and I took the boys over to Grandma's house and we went at it. We got all the siding off, and I made about 100 wheelbarrow trips into the big dumpster. We have the guys coming over again tomorrow to finish the cleanup and ripping out the deck out back. We found that we have some termite damage that we have to look into. Hopefully nothing that will cost us too much... i hate those unexpected things that really hurt the wallet, like when your car breaks down, or something like this happens. Anyhow, of course I will be posting about the house when it is finished.. in a week or two.

I heart my new wall art..

I just got this little piece of wall art yesterday.. is that what it is called? I think so. Anyhow, I just love it. I picked it up at JoAnn Fabric store of all places. I saw it a couple days before and it was 50 percent off and I have been thinking about it since then so I had to go back and get it yesterday. I just love it. I found the perfect spot for it right beside/behind our dining room table. I think it looks good with our wall color which is a sage green.

Gavin is 2...

My Gavin turned 2 on Wednesday. I still can't believe his is 2 already, it has flown by. On Monday we went to the zoo for his birthday (because the weather was supposed to be nicer, it was still cold but it didn't rain!). We also went to the Rose Festival going on in downtown Portland and the boys got to ride some fun rides - Gavin's first time for that. We also got to see and go aboard a couple of pirate ships that are docked there, one was even used in making Pirates of the Caribbean. It was a fun day, we were all soo tired when we got home.

My garden is coming right along, if we would ever get some sunshine here that would help.. But everything seems to be growing and not dying. This way I don't have to water is one way to look at it I guess, but the soil is so wet I can't weed very good and they are starting to take over.

Silver Creek Falls..

Kevin had odd days off this week (Tues, Wed & Thurs.) so we got alot of stuff done around the house, mostly in the yard and garden, and then yesterday we went up to Silver Creek Falls. We had not been there yet this year and it is one of our favorite spots. We are not able to walk very far right now with both of the boys but we walked down to the South Falls and on the trail behind it and then back up and then we went to the Lodge for hot chocolate and to sit by the fire.. That was really nice. Then we drove to the North falls and hiked to see it and the Upper North Falls. It was a really fun day and the boys were both wore out from the walk (Gavin got carried some of the way, but he did really good).

Gavin turns 2 next week! We are going to go to the zoo on his birthday and then maybe check out the Rose Festival stuff going on downtown. There are some really cool ships that I think they would love to see, one that was in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Carter is 4!

Carter turned 4 last Saturday.. I can't believe he is is already 4, nonethless he had a great birthday with a little party at Chuck-E-Cheese, and then family over for cake and the unveiling of his big present. All the grandparents and us went in on this little truck for him. He was soo excited to open up the shed and see it there. He said "oh, there is one of those little trucks in here" and kept asking whose it was. Gavin loves to ride along and the truck has a little radio which they turn on and Gavin bobs his head to the music. Too funny!