Weeks 5 and 6

After getting back from Estes Park and saying goodbye to the Perrins Family it was time to try to recover and really get into our summer.  Before the trip I had bought a new "big-girl" bed for Bree.  It was a light pine color and I wanted it white.  So, while the kids played outside I started working on the bed.  I started with the idea of spray painting the bed.  Of course, the kids wanted to help.  

Sanding the headboard

So, the spray paint was a bit of a bust.  It did not go on even or even smoothly.  So, I sanded it down again and then considered chalk paint.  But after researching it and talking it out with Kristi, I decided to try some enamel white paint.  After the sanding and before the enamel I considered leaving it as is...it looked distressed which seems to be the current trend.

That week the boys also resumed their swim lessons.  This was Finn's 3rd lesson and he was doing so well.  Notice the past tense.  I'll have to clarify that in the coming posts.

That weekend was our neighborhood garage sale and we decided to participate.  After the first day, I gave up.  We sold a few things but most of this stuff is still here.

We tried to sell the changing table and crib in the garage sale, but no luck.  People commented on how nice it was and how I should price it higher, but no one actually wanted to buy it.  So, I turned to my online buy/sell FB page and was able to sell it fairly quickly.  Since this was one of my biggest items to sell, it made the decision to quit the garage sale on the 2nd day even easier.

Tuesday the 28th I made the kids rush through some morning chores so we could hit a matinee of Finding Dory.  The boys loved it and Bree actually did fairly well.  It didn't start well, though, ,as Bree asked at the end of previews, "Is the movie over yet"  Uh oh...but once Dory appeared she was fairly engrossed.

The next day we went to the zoo with our friends.  Our annual membership was expiring at the end of the month and we wanted to get one last trip in.  Isn't she the cutest giraffe feeder ever??

Our last stop of the day was the monkey house.  There was this baby orangutan that the kids really enjoyed watching.  Everyone was tired and just sat down to watch.  They had a really good time talking and watching the baby and just being there.  This lasted for a good 15 minutes (Sawyer's brother Jude was tired and so his mom had taken him out. Sawyer was just happy to stay with the boys.)

And then at the end of the week, there was this.  Reid's parents put their house on the market in May and it was under contract very quickly.  They are planning to move to Kansas to be closer to Kristi and her family.  We saw this as our last chance to visit their home in Elgin and so we decided to take the long 4th of July weekend and drive straight through to Elgin.  I tried to get as many fun things as I could to make the drive easier.  This was our activity bucket and there was an equally as exciting snack bucket.  The plan was to leave early on the 1st of July so after the zoo we spent Thursday getting this ready.