Long Weekend

We devoted a lot of time over the weekend to some house work. With harvest quickly approaching, and me working at my friend's apple orchard this fall, time was going to fly by this fall. So we decided it was now - or November - to get some work done. First up - the baby's room. The nursery needed a new ceiling, so we had that done professionally, and this weekend we painted it - and then painted the walls. Since we had all the painting supplies out - we decided to also paint the spare bedroom. We live in a 110 year old farm house which has it's originally 6 inch white trim. So we decided on a nice neutral khaki (boring, I know). But it turned out great.

Once the painting was done, we shampooed our carpets and moved in the baby furniture - which my sister is so graciously "loaning" us. It's from her two kids...and was being stored at her house. Now it has a home with us. In the process of moving the furniture in, which Amy and Noah did, Max and Mollie were playing with this stretching toy thing. Well, they liked to twist it up and watch it unwind. This particular time, it started unwinding a little too close to Mollie's hair - and whoops, it got all twisted up in her hair. Guess I'm kind of a bad aunt for not watching them more closely. But Amy and I had to do some delicate "surgery" to remove it. Noah's solution - as you can see below - was to cut her hair off and then tape it back on. Mollie didn't think that was very funny!

In between coats of paint, and carpets drying, we did find some time to relax in the pool at Amy's since it was dang hot this weekend!