s a i l i n g

One of my favorite (albeit, weirdest) memories of my Dad happened while I was in high school. I think I was a Senior? My Dad woke me up one Saturday morning after he had been garage sale-ing. (Always a good sign...) He told me he bought a sail boat (really just a catamaran). He dragged me out of bed to come see. It was orange and yellow, and had some dumb trampoline thing that you sat on while you "sailed." I was so confused. My Dad didn't know how to sail. At all. AT ALL! But he had done a lot of reading and been a few times, so it would all work out, right?            

Which brings me to one of the things I admire most about him. He didn't know to sail but he didn't care, he wanted to learn, so he was going to! And he did. And boy was he committed. We all poked fun of him as he would take his little cat down to the lake, lift up the mast, and hope to make it out of the marina without the motor dying and without forgetting to put the plugs into the boat before we sank. ALWAYS an adventure. It was honestly weird how much he didn't seem to mind how things never quite went right.

Through it all though Kev became a real captain! AND he finally got a real sailboat. So now, we can head out on the lake with the whole family without getting wet, we can eat lunch on the lake (or airheads for Wes) and relax on the boat, with just the sound of the sails, no loud motor. And after all the mishaps Kev became a remarkably good sailor and I think (co-captain) Tanner even has the bug too. (Yay!) I love it. I love that he took something he knew nothing about, and with total confidence ran with it, and made something out of it! Most of all, I love how much we benefit from it :)

P.S. We missed you Kristen!!!

house fun

I am seriously struggling with this blogging thing lately. It's been cray cray lately to say the least. Sooo, in a nutshell. I'm looking super fat and preg which is AWESOME, we've been to California a few times, I made it through the hardest semester I've ever done (just to start up again last week! ugh), and we have been doing lots of house projects (surprise, surprise!).

Today we went to home depot on the way home from Wes' piano recital to grab some gray paint chips for the house, because as it turns out, it is impossible to find a good gray, instead though, we ended up coming home with a million bushes and some edging, and decided today was the perfect day to tear up our yard. WHAT?!! But it worked out and it's looking really good. Physical labor is fun sometimes! Seriously, I love it. Although, lets me honest, I'll let Tanner do the rest of the yard without me. I'm tired!  

Se here is what we did today! I wish I had a before because it's a lot different. But instead, just imagine lots of weeds. And... after.......

We dug out a bunch of grass, and dug a trench to put this edging in. I saw more spiders today then I have seen in my entire life combined. Such a treat. We really need to call a bug guy. 

We are super excited that our house doesn't look like a meth house anymore! haha. We've still got more to do in front along the side of the driveway, but after today I don't want to think about that.  The thing I am MOST excited for though is what I have in store for (hopefully) next week. I am going to paint our door a fun shade of green like the one below. Crazy that I don't like that beautiful brown we have now, I know. I am going to paint the inside and outside the same color.

And since I always love stalking peoples bump pictures... I've basically ballooned over that past two weeks. Maybe it's the stress? Or maybe I just have a human inside of me.  So here it is. The 24 week bump. (and a messy house) I feel like I look like I'm due any day now.