Vacation

 Headed to Utah for vacation and lacrosse camp.

 I was prepared to photograph every moment.  But then reality hit, I was vacationing with teenagers, who do not want to hang out with their mother or have her take their picture.

 So this will be a short post from a weeks worth of Utah fun.  Our friend Kyle, big time football player at the Y.

 Parker stuffed into a cart in hobby lobby.

 Fourth of July.

 Megan won the mosquito run again.

 The Rich family all ran, Blakelee and I watched.

 Reese and Keely were at lacrosse camp.

Where it was very hot! And that's our vacation.  Better luck next year.

Long overdue

 My cousin Michelle and husband Wendell gave me this idea.  I just took my time getting around to it.  Can you see how many different colors the water closet has been?

It is yet another color but this time no painting (or trying) to paint behind the toilet, ever again.  This is brilliant. And it looks good too.  Five colors in twelve years, not too bad.  I missed the fact that Gregg had already put the plunger back before I took this picture.  Bonus!  I hope we never need to use it on our new toilet.

How old is this table?

 My dad built this picnic table when I was in high school.

 We inherited it and to say it has seen better days is an understatement.

 I stained some lattice on top of it.

 The dog chewed on it.  In other words eye sore in our back yard and unusable.

 Until now.  Gregg helped me cut the benches off.  We shortened the legs

 and replaced the wood on the top.  I cleaned the wood really good and got the termites moved out.

Stained it and now it looks great and you can just sit in a chair at it.  Our girls are not ones for eating outside with the bugs but we could if we had to now.

Free free free

 I got a pile of old windows from someone at church. 

 I forced a few on neighbors and friends and gave them some ideas.

 I painted mine red and hung it up.  Not to exciting

added some vinyl and now I love it.