The Weekend

We spent most of the weekend outdoors, as we have for the past month during our remodeling project. Joe and I had Friday off but we sent Harper to day care since the painting crew was going to be here most of the day finishing up our interior. We went for a hike and had lunch in the sun on the mountain while Harper ate real food and napped in the air conditioning. Who had the better deal?

The painters finished around 3 on Friday (a crew that finishes early, what a wonder!) and after 24 hours of panic due to poor paint selection on my part (surprise, surprise--more on this later) the inside of our house looks great. It will look especially great when we have furniture and pictures again to help fill the space. Until then we have an awful lot of grey wall to look at... After my phone call to our GC last week there was a flurry of activity in our house this past week, and the project will be done when we get back from our vacation next week. This probably means there won't be much happening this coming week since our vacation bought them a week, but when I walk in my front door after vacation I've promised it will be finished and cleaned and beautiful. I really really hope that's true.

Anyway, we did a little cleaning this weekend in our multipurpose room upstairs and used our new cooktop (no electric starter but a match works) to cook eggs for dinner tonight. Let me tell you, food that didn't come out the microwave tasted fantastic.

This afternoon we met a friend at Golden's Splash park. Both of the little girls loved the water park, though they didn't do much playing together (I shared fragments of a conversation with my friend as the girls passed eachother). Here's a picture of Harper enjoying the pool. She found the place where the warm water bubbled into the shallow end and parked her butt on it for about 20 minutes. Smart girl. Click here to view more pictures.