Friday B and I went to the zoo before his nap.
The zoo is about three miles from our house, and we have a zoo pass,
so it's great to just get out for a bit and walk around.
Bennett loves the monkeys and the elephants the best.
chillin on the hippo:
We did lots of reading this weekend,
mostly of Hop on Pop.
Bennett is obsessed.
Yesterday I went to my friend
Kira's baby shower.
It was nice and relaxing to just sit outside and have grown up conversations
without having to chase a toddler around.
(although we talked mostly about our kids anyways)
Afterwards I met Chris and B on Mississippi where we grabbed Thai and stocked up on
green beans for Chris to roast.
This weekend we also made progress on the house...
new address numbers:
and the hallway is now white:
Chris' goal this week is to finish the fireplace and I'm going to work on painting the kitchen.
Hopefully we get it all done!
Every once in a while I get a major inkling (has anybody ever spelled that out before?) to bake.
Right now would be one of those times.
I love to bake, it's one of my favorite things to do, but since Bennett was born I haven't baked nearly as much as I'd like.
The oven in the new house is the original one from good 'ol 1954, and though it works, I'm pretty sure it's temperature is way off. I think I will be purchasing an oven thermometer before I do any baking, but until then I can figure out which one of these yummies I would like to make...
blueberry lemon buttermilk cake
chocolate cobbler
blackberry pie bars
zucchini nutella muffins
double chocolate chunk oreo cookies
coconut lime pound cake
chocolate chip sour cream muffins
carrot sheet cake with cream cheese frosting
strawberry icebox pie
coconut macaroons with meyer lemon curd
vanilla pudding chocolate chip cookies
We have come a long ways on the house in 7 days so we decided to relax a little this weekend.
we broke in our new bbq:
date night at Sinju:
(finally getting to celebrate our anniversary!)
handsome Chris:
I love Bridgeport at night:
Saturday morning breakfast sandwich:
(tj's chicken apple sausages with egg and cheddar)
a day at the coast with the Carters:
(Bennett and his girlfriend Avery)
the guys trying to get the strollers up the hill:
(we forgot our stroller, but luckily we were able to borrow this totally awesome umbrella stroller from the 80's)
stylin:
it's not a trip to the beach without ice cream in a waffle cone:
(B loved it!)
on the way home I kept trying to take an artsy family photo kind of like this:
I didn't have enough light to take a good one but I cracked up when
I saw what B was doing in this one:
(he's holding the carseat strap up between his toes)
He's a goof and we love him for it!
Happy Monday!
When we moved into this house (yes it was a week ago, but whatever) we knew the first thing we were going to do was get rid of the every-room-is-a-different-color.
More importantly, we couldn't wait to slather bright white paint on every wall in the house.
There is just something about an all white house that is fresh and airy even when its 80 degrees (yes that's hot for Oregon) outside.
Painting was the one thing we wanted to completely finish before we moved everything in.
We bought a 5 gallon bucket ($140!) of Behr Ultra Pure White of which the dude said would cover 5 rooms.
We started out painting the bedrooms and we quickly realized our paint was going a lot quicker than we had hoped. We (with the help of Chris' mom) ended up needing to put 3 coats in each room to get it to cover all the way.
Super annoying.
It took all week to paint 3 bedrooms plus a coat in the laundry room. We decided we would tackle the rest of the rooms one-per-weekend. We'll see how that goes.
It could possibly take three 5 gallon buckets to paint this house but we think it's worth it!
Just look at how breezy these rooms seem:
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...it's especially hard to get stuff done when this is right out our back door:
Do you think we are crazy for wanting to paint everything white
or are you going to be super jealous when it's all finished?
I just wanted to give you guys a tiny peek into the new house since we moved in.
Nothing is finished but we are pretty much unpacked (after 3 days!)
The only room that is semi finished is Bennett's because we wanted him to have some kind of normalcy in all this craziness. Yes his room looks different, but it's all the same components at least.
our bedroom:
the living room:
oh and I have my own closet for the first time ever!
and I modernized the planter box with some non-cheesy plants:
(with my mom's help)
Those are really the only things worth sharing right now, but
we are really loving our new house and neighborhood!
Sorry for such a brief post but I wanted to share before we head out to pick up Chris from work!
I pretty much think it's cheesy when people write personal notes/letters to their husbands on their blog, but I have to make an exception this time. It's our fifth anniversary (go us!) and we are so busy getting the new house ready to move in that we can't even get away to the store alone to get a card.
So to Chris ...
(and all you guys can peek in too)
Five years have gone by and I love you even more than back then (cliche no?)
I really appreciate everything you do for me (and Bennett) everyday even though I don't always tell you.
Last year for our anniversary last year you completely outdid
(is that even a word?) yourself with a giant surprise extravaganza
(read part one and two) inluding a helicopter ride and surprise family photos.
It's kind of funny, because this year we are spending it painting, packing, taking a trip to Lowe's to buy a BBQ and getting cavities filled at the dentist (and spending half the day with numb mouths). I actually considered it fitting to write a little love note to you for our #5 on a Home Depot receipt but that would be kind of awkward if we had to return something (since we have had to make many return trips already).
Even if this anniversary isn't romantic, it's still exciting. I think it's pretty darn romantic that you bought us a house and that we are putting time and effort into fixing it up together before we move in.
It's perfect and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else today.
I love you Christopher!
...
Soo I don't think I've ever posted any wedding pictures because the cd with all the digitals is at my mom's house. I took pictures of the pictures I have in an album so these aren't the best but at least you get to see! Unfortunately the color has changed a lot in five years, but I'm so glad we have those digitals saved on a cd.
Some of my favorites:
Happy Thursday
(and probably Friday too!)
