Vacation

We had a wonderful time at our friends' house in Colorado. The weather was cool, had a couple of days of rain, just heavenly.

If you ignore that fact that

on Monday I sprained my left ankle (day one & same foot that I had x-rayed 2 weeks ago suspecting a stress fracture)
on Tuesday Youngest DS scraped his back on the ceiling. Yes you read that right. imagine a boy, a bunk bed and a low ceiling.
and on Wednesday hubby accidentally stubbed his toe on one of those log chairs. The chair didnt' give, his toenail did.

We wondered what the oldest DS was going to do to injure himself on day 4, but he sailed through vacation w/o any physical injuries.

The drive back was long, but it was great to sleep in my own bed again!

I had stamp club tonight and the ladies were responsible for being the creative ones! They had to design a card and bring enough goodies for each of the attendees to make one to take home.

In all we walked away with 7 new projects and had lots of fun doing it!

August

Ah...school will start soon. I guess that sounds awful, but the boys have had too much free time on their hands this summer. Compared to previous summers that is *great*! But, they are getting on each others nerves, and therefore mine.

But I have painted my parents' formal dining room and entryway. Six windows, primer, and three colors of paint later, their place looks clean and fresh. They are getting new flooring this week. Then they'll move their dining room furniture out of storage and into their freshly prepared dining room.

Tomorrow night I'm going to meet my blog buddy. She and I met by following one another's blogs. It's probably not novel for others, but it is for me. She & I will meet face-to-face tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to it!

Also, my cousin, Rhonda & her husband, Keith, are currently driving back home from a trip to Mississippi where he was unanimously called to be the pastor of a church there. This has been a long time coming for them, and I am thrilled that they were patient and that God picked this church for them. I can't wait to go visit them once they are settled in and have time and energy to have us come.

Painting Mom and Dad's house has re-inspired me to get my formal dining room painted. I am about 90% finished with my clean out and reorg. of the room. Once that is done, I guess I'll buy paint and get busy.