Wordless Wednesday...

Jacksonism...

Jackson to Mom: "Your butt is much bigger than mine."
Mom to Jackson: "Why yes it is. Thank you son."

Random Thoughts...

Our life is about to get a little more crazy. The smallest one is getting a little more mobile: Addie is starting to crawl.

Addie can sign: More, Bye-Bye, Milk and All Done

I need to exercise. My body is getting old and craving more exercise. I'd love to go for long walks, but am always afraid of getting too far from home with kids. Chances are good that either Jackson will have to go to the bathroom or Addie will have a meltdown.

I need someone to clean my house.

Jackson is making good use of the word enormous. Enormous cranes, bunnies, bowls of cereal. It's even worked well for him in the bathroom too!

I made my first cake! Yes after 32 years I have made my very first cake, from scratch. I am very proud of my chocolate bundt cake and it tasted great.

My kitchen was busy this weekend: Turkey burgers, candied walnuts, cinnamon and sugar chips, fruit salsa, chocolate bundt cake, smoked salmon and cream cheese frittata and buffalo chicken salads. Yum!

Girls book club and clothing swap was a success! I scored a bag full of new dud... thanks friends.

Decorating

I think I'm going to try to pull something like this off...

The Kitchen...

Our kitchen is finally painted. The living room and the foyer was easy, I had colors picked out in my brain before we even moved in. I went to Hirshfields and found my Shaker Beige and Birds Egg and the painting began. The kitchen was a different story:

I wanted a a green that would go well with the blue and beige that we painted on the main floor.




After seven paint samples on the wall that mostly required individual stops at the paint store we finally found the one. Last Friday the painting project started. It wasn't long before we knew we had to tackle the grease problem atop the cabinets. I started with some Goo Gone and a rag. It worked but at that rate it was going to take me HOURS upon HOURS to clean. So I called in Ron's brain. He brilliantly came up with the idea of using a long blade putty knife. And it worked... we scraped up 1/8 inch thick GREASE off the tops of our cabinets. It was horridly disgusting.

Then we were able to tape and paint and came up with this: I wish that I would have taken a before an after shot.

Wordless Wednesday...

Who is the better fisherman?

On Saturday we piled in the car and took off north to Pine City to visit Great Grandpa Jim. Lucky for us Grandma Jan, Uncle Steve and Aunt Kathy were there too! We stopped in town to purchase our fishing license and buy bait and it was off to the boat we went. Kathy, Steve, Ron, Sara and Jackson went down the river to see if the fish were biting. We didn't catch enough for dinner but Sara got lucky and snagged a pretty good-sized sunfish. Jackson helped to take it off the hook and put it back in the water all by himself.

Addie didn't make it out for the fishing trip, but we really wanted to see how she would do on the boat in her life jacket. She wasn't really a fan of the jacket and wouldn't straighten herself out in it, just kept leaning back... it was very strange. After a fun afternoon we headed back home.