Spring has arrived!

This weekend we decided to take a trip around tubbs hill. Bentley has been a bit neglected these days so he was stoked to have a long walk.



The lake was beautiful. Spring has arrived and the wild flowers were in bloom.



I liked these pretty little yellow flowers. I liked how the pedals flipped up.




Gotta love this place when it is sunny and warm! Oh happy day!




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Location:E St Maries Ave,Coeur d'Alene,United States

Craft Room?

So I know we said the projects were done for awhile, but I got antsy. My antsy-ness = my project (according to Louie).  Our house look so nice, and is soo cozy with the new floors, painted walls, and everything. What can I say?  We have this little nook outside of our bedroom upstairs.  It used to house the computer, until we built a new little nook downstairs.  Now, this nook upstairs is going to be my new craft room.  Hence, my project.  This is what it used to look like.  Carpeted.

 

So, we tore out the carpet, and found the same fir/larch that was throughout our house downstairs.  For the downstairs project, we were going to refinish them, but then found a heck of a deal on red oak that we couldn’t pass up.  For the upstairs, I decided that I was going to try to save the fir/larch, plus I am cheap. 

Imagine 4 layers of paint on the wood floors. 

 Since belt sanding was getting no where, we decided on paint stripper.  White, Red, Green, Grey, WOOD! 

  The grey layer we could not get up with the stripper…it was a grey goo, instead of paint.  I am wondering if it is the old finish, not paint.  Anyways…I was at it again with the belt sander…but you can see, getting no where fast.

Today, I was fed up, and rented this handy beast.  Never used one, but we became best friends.  Well worth the 40 dollars, sore body, and dust everywhere.  Way quicker than hands and knees, with a belt sander. 

Maybe it will someday transform into this?

What’s next you may ask?  Stairs.

I wasn’t planning on ripping out the carpet on the stairs, but Louie got motivated and found his new project. 

Stairs before

Whats to come…One at a time.

We have a black theme going on in the house…so the kickplates, as I like to call them, will be stained black, and the top of the stairs, will be pine.  A nice contrast. 

This girl makes ME smile!

I got the spend the day with Matt, Bella and Lilah last Monday. It was a whopping 58 degrees and sunny! Sooo nice! We went the Riverfront park and watched the girls run run run in the grass. Lilah wasn't too sure about the grass a first, and complained some. But, she finally got into it. Bella just went all out. Stupidly, I did not bring my camera to the park with us. When we got home though, I whipped it out and got some shots of Bella, while Lilah was napping. They are so much fun!

A New Model

Today I took Erin's dog Lucy to Sander's Beach with us. She had a BLAST bugging Bentley as usual! Erin has always asked when Lucy's photoshoot is going to be...here you have it!

This was a LUCKY shot! I wasn't expecting Lucy to jump from the rock to the shore...and I just happened to click at the right time. I think this is an awesome shot!

Now the sequence of the typical stick throwing contest. Bentley retrieves from the water, and Lucy tries to steal it when he gets to shore. Bentley loved that Lucy was on a leash.

A waiting doggy...

This was also a special shot because these two dog NEVER get nose to nose. I think this is cute!

On the way home.

I am irritated with the blogger. There is no good way to organize these photos and make them bigger through blogger. I need to somehow find a good program for MAC. grrr.

House almost done

It's pretty!











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Floors finally!

Unfinished floor


Finishing floor


Still working...


Two coats of poly are one. At least two more to go. Isn't it pretty?

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Aunties girl in training

This last weekend was my birthday weekend and my present from Louie was a plane ticket to go visit my friends in oak harbor. A lot of our time was spent driving to and from the airport, around downtown Seattle to the aquarium, on the ferry to port townsend (no never made it to forks, but I tried), a search for the elusive game farm (which ended up being closed) and back to their house. We got lots of quality road trip time with Taryn and I made sure we captured it. I was teaching T about making funny faces at the camera.



Mommy made sure she was in the mix too.






She was getting really good at making faces and wanted to take lots and lots. Also this kid is brilliant at figuring out the iPhone. I had a drawing app that she had hours of entertainment on.






We had lots of fun! I am glad that I got to spend my birthday with some great friends!

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