Before/ After

About a year ago(?), I got this little table with two chairs for free. We were on our way home from church and they were on the side of the road with a FREE sign taped to them. I have loved having them, but I wanted to spruce them up a little. I am addicted to pinterest and I had seen a DIY table that was chevron print - I loved it. So, with my handsome husband by my side I decided that this table needed to be made into a chevron table. 

Oh, my goodness it was a lot of work. After I sanded it and painted it white Daniel got super busy  - I needed his help tapping the strips. So two months later the strips were finally tapped and painted blue. 

I love the way it turned out. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE IT. 

When Daddy Comes Home

My kids love their Dad and he in return loves them. They are always excited when they hear the door open and he walks through the door. 

We love the summer because we can go outside and wait for him to get home. However; with summer also brings overtime hours. Which means there are times when Dan does not get home until after the kids are already asleep in their beds. last night I let them stay up late so they could wait for Dan to get home. They were already in their pajamas and I told them they could go and wait for him outside.  I came outside and found them on the stairs watching and waiting. 

They melt my heart. 

Geocaching

One of our new favorite things today is Geocaching. Wikipedia tells it better then I can... 

Geocaching /ˈdʒiːəˌkæʃɪŋ/ is an outdoor recreational activity, in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.

A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little financial value, although sometimes they are sentimental. Geocaching shares many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing, orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking..

I just downloaded an app to my iphone - it was $10.00- and off we went. The kids LOVED it. We spent all day Saturday driving around finding caches. We had SO MUCH FUN! Some of the caches were just logs, for us to write our names in and others were canisters that had treasure inside for the kids to trade with. I think this is going to be one of our favorite go to activities, that we can do ANYWHERE we go. We think it would be fun to hide a cache in different place we go and visit. We think it would be fun next time we are in Oregon to not only go and find a cache but also make one to hide with Grandma Nette and Papa Joe.