better hair day

Just enough hair for these adorable clips my aunt made. And they're on the cutest two year old I know.

bad hair day, really bad

Someday Fienna will grow some hair. In the meantime we think this is adorable.

demolition

Just a few photos to show what kind of a mess I'm living in. Like my floor? The cabinet is now gone. It had a 35 year old oven in it. It's now in the garden shed which the girls have claimed as their clubhouse. It's a nice spot for them. Now there's nothing garden related in there. Dollhouses and stuffed animals. No oven either. It's going to the dump. Oh, you can see the fresh paint in the photo behind Reed. it's not really a pale yellow like it seems. It's deeper and warmer.

random house pics

This will be really random since I can't remember which order to upload. Is last first? Been a while. There are some before and after and in between photos. Like the "nipple" panels on the outside of the front door? Was going to paint them white but it would take hours. but I love how they turned out inside. The vaulted cedar ceilings are all now a creamy white. The cedar walls are a pale butterscotch, except in master bedroom where they're yellow. Haven't taken pictures of that yet. The windows look so good with white trim. I hated that dark brown. the view looks so much nicer with the white. The whole house is lighter and brighter. I love it.

I don't know if anyone is still following this blog...it's a little short on posts lately. Really, I'll update soon. Our upload speed here is much slower than on Comcast. And summer isn't shaping up quite how I'd envisioned. Basement flooded 3 weeks ago by the orchard, and it's still unusable. Kitchen is in chaos but will soon be completely new. Painting is finished, so one project out of the way. many more to come. But we're all well, happy and still suffering from benign neglect.

unpacking

We unpacked almost every box in the first week. I just wanted to get everything out. Fortunately there is storage space galore in this house so it was easy to unload. Now the garage is full of boxes and several hundred pounds of paper. The kids had fun stomping it down into the wardrobe boxes.

view from our deck

The view from our front deck is great! We can even lie in bed at look out over the valley. So we've take a few photos. One of sunrise, one mid-day, one at dusk and one of the beautiful snowfall mid-April. Then there's Mrs. Gray. We inherited her from our neighbors, much to the kids' delight. She's an outside cat so even Reed and I like her. She's calm enough to let Fienna pack her around but we don't see her everyday. We've found some wonderful dead surprises in our yard too. She's quite a hunter. Really a pleasant cat. And the little finch. He spent an afternoon tapping on our front room window. The other day there were 4 different finches lined up on the chains of the porch swing. There are quail living in the hedge and a pheasant that walked through our lawn. Even a skunk, which is much less appealing. Fortunately he doesn't seem to live here. I've only smelled him twice. So far Connor loves our great big yard and has even planted a full vegetable garden. Set up a sprinkler system too. He's anxious to get a lawn "tractor" too. Caitlin wanted to move back to MD the second time we made her gather tumble weeds. So I got her some gardening gloves.

Really, one of these days I'll post some interior photos. I just haven't taken any yet. We have one project nearly done. My dad came out and tore out the back hallway wall. He put in a wider exterior door too. Much nicer to walk in our back door now. But it won't be finished for a while. We need new flooring and some kind of cabinetry. And lots of other things...