few pics from this week...

It's been pretty fun even for the kids. The babies miss Taylor now, but having Dad home all day has been really great. We even fit in a little school before Taylor left for camp, some really fun lessons that I can't recall at the moment. There was some funny play with the little ones too, but I suppose I am too exhausted to describe it all now. The usual new words, trampoline skills, new sibling interactions, funny toddler tantrums, cute loving cuddling, and other normal wonderful family times plus painting and moving things and constant rearranging. The babies are just big enough to stay out of the way or be marginally helpful for 30 minutes or so at a time. This is much improved over the last few years, and we are enjoying it. We are also taking care of various errands right now. We have to do vehicle repairs, school forms, daycare registration (I think I found one), and other various applications and payments. So, not much in the way of vacation, well, except the little bit of fishing/video-ish games/summer camp/mildly relaxing time that we are squeezing in lately. So it has been a busy, fun, relaxing, and productive week off.

sneak peek...

Taylor is off to camp and the babies are with Trent's parents. (thank you, thank you, thank you!) The living room, library, dining room and kitchen are all painted. All but one of the bookcases have been painted to match. Now we are getting everything put back in place and painting all the accent pieces that need it. Everything looks great, the process went a lot faster than we expected, and the best part is that we actually really enjoyed doing it (and we got to work together on it). I am really glad that we decided to try it. Here is a sneak peek of the house. I don't have time to load more now. Soon.