Happenings

Let's see...I have a couple of weeks to catch up on.

We went to our family reunion in Irish Beach (just south of Mendocino) the weekend of the 15th. It was really great to see my parents and my sister's family as well as other relatives I haven't seen in a while....I couldn't believe how much Adam had already grown! He is such a great baby. The weather was pretty nice while we were there. It was a little foggy, but we did have some sun! We were able to take a family picture...which was great since it's not often that we are ALL together.

  

Here are some pics of Susan, Leevi, & Adam.

Last weekend we went back out to Mountain Winery. This time we ate their prix fix dinner. It was pretty good food. The only problem was the 5 gazillion (ok a little exaggeration) yellow jackets buzzing around us. I thought I was going have a little extra protein a couple of times I tried to take bites of my food. We went to see Steely Dan. It was a really good concert! We had a good time, but we didn't get home till around 11:45pm...did I mention this was Sunday night. I decided it would be good to sleep in Monday morning and go in a little later.

And now we've been working on our newest house project. Just like every other house project we've done...we've hit a snag. We tore the carpet and baseboards out our two closets and found a crack in our concrete foundation...we knew there were probably more throughout the hallway and so we cut the carpet in another location and sure enough there was another crack. So now we need to have those fixed before we can have the hardwood floor installed because the floor is crowned where the crack is and is over the tolerance for the flooring...this happened when we installed the floor in our front room too! Here are some pictures of our "mess" so far.

I'm having a VERY hard time picking a color for the hallway, so here are my MANY test patches!!

 

I'll try to update my blog a little more often...but I don't make any  promises!

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!

Update...

I have been horrible about posting lately...so since the last "catching up" post we have...

1.  Gone to a comedy show here in town with our neighbors. The first couple of guys were horrible, but the last three were pretty good.

2. Started a new house project. We are going to replace the carpet in the hallway and office with hardwood floor. The flooring will be here on Monday, but as with ALL our house projects, Steve has managed to make it a bigger project than we originally had in mind. Since we're taking the carpet out...of course we have to paint...and since we're painting we should really do something with the lights...and since we're doing the lights we should also replace all the wall plates etc etc etc. Seems like the list never ends. So we are now in the process of trying to decide what color to paint the hall so we can pick some lights out so we know where to make electrical drops...but this will all be put on hold for a little longer since we have a pretty busy August.

3. Last Sunday through Tuesday we went with our neighbors to Don Pedro Lake. Our neighbors have a 40' motor home, a pontoon boat, and a jet ski. We had a great time with them. We had never been in their motor home even though we've probably walked by it 1000 times. It is SOOOO nice. I was going to take some pictures, but I forgot. We had beautiful weather for the most part. It was a little warm during the day, but since we were on the water it didn't matter much. Monday night was a little warm so I didn't sleep so well, but I've since recovered :) Here are some pictures of our trip...

   

Steve taking off on the jet ski    Just getting back on the jet ski

So a little side story about the jet ski...I had never been on one before and Steve had...so Steve rode the jet ski out when we left the docks. When we anchored the boat he took me out with him...and not more than 2 minutes into the ride he dumps us both!! Then he hadn't paid attention to where the safety was connected, so we spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to reconnect the safety so the ski would start again...oh and for those who were wondering, yes it was me, not Steve who eventually figured out where it went. Also for those of you who don't already know this about my husband...he is a speed freak...the jet ski goes 60mph....and I wasn't so keen on him going that fast while I was with him...I had to keep telling him to slow down. I think he got up to around 50 with me on it...that was more than fast enough for me!!

    View from our campsite              Here's our camp setup

 

      Relaxing before dinner              Steve driving the boat

    The outhouse on the lake              View from on the lake

So our next adventure is coming up next weekend. We have a family reunion at Irish Beach (near Mendocino). My sister and her family are flying into McKinleyville tonight. I can't wait to see everyone!!