Our Weekend

We had the best, relaxing weekend.  The boys are also out of school today for President's Day.  Cal missed school on Friday for a horrible cough, but Brady went to school.  It has been 70-80 degrees here for over a week, so I did go get a pedicure with a friend on Friday.  When Brady got out of school Friday, we came home and got to work on the boys new "tree house".  There is a tree that is perfect for them to climb in, it just had a lot of old branches that needed to be cleared out.  They were in the tree all weekend.  Well worth the time it took to clear out the branches.

Cal's pocket knife came in handy.  They each picked a branch to carve their name into.

A friend and I started taking the wallpaper down in the boy's Jack and Jill bathroom on Thursday.  We started in the middle shower/toilet room.  I finished that room this weekend and will do each of their sink rooms next.  It has been pretty easy.  I hear that it either goes really well or really bad. 

Yes, 3 rooms of this seafoam green wallpaper

The white has been scraped of all the backing.  The yellow up at the top is the backing you have to scrape off.  We still have to put some other spray on the white part to make sure it is rid of glue before you paint. We may hire someone to paint, but at least I have saved us the cost of labor for the wallpaper removal.

Here is the cardinal that Matt has been trying to take a picture of since Dec.

He and the female are spending a lot of time at our feeder, but they hear us coming before we can take their picture.  Matt took this Sunday morning.  The color is not good, but he is really pretty.

This was the sunset Sunday night.  We grilled out with Matt's parents last night.  Matt grilled chicken, but the days are still not long enough for us to sit outside.  Oh, how I am longing for the days of eating dinner outside!

Hope everyone else had a nice long weekend and has a great week.