Wowee

Wow, what a BUSY weekend! We have had several projects on our ever growing list of things-to-get-done-soon list. Since we haven't been around for the majority of weekends and with only having limited time in the evenings after work, we decided this 3 day weekend would be a good weekend to finally get to some of these things. The additional time and the fact that our New Zealand friends, Barney & Pauline, are arriving on Wednesday, kicked us into high gear. We were in various stages of various projects and considering our house guests will be with us for several weeks, we thought we should probably have a presentable house.

So, this weekend we: finished moving the office from what will now be the baby's room to a spare bedroom and created quite a nice little study, tidied up the front yard, bought, planted, and/or moved 4 trees, tidied up the back yard, planted new plants, Jim primed and painted the bathroom (4 coats!), did some yard work for his mom, and just worked on getting the house ready for our guests.

While all this was going on, my dad spent pretty much the whole weekend building and finishing our new deck! Between the deck building, my mom helping me clean the old office so we could start the baby's room, helping us in the yard and in making our bathroom sparkly and clean to match the new paint job, my brother helping my dad with the final pieces for the deck, we spent lots of nice time with my family.

The 3 days flew by and I feel like we need a weekend just to relax after this weekend! Pics of our projects coming tonight!