Happy Father’s Day

 

 

 

To our fathers…  Dave and Steve

 

And to the father of my children, Lance

 

 

We wish you a fantastic Father’s Day.  Thank you and we love you! 

 

(your cards are in the mail…)

 

Grandpa Dave

 

 

 

Grandpa Steve

Catching up… last weekend at the beach

 

 

We welcomed Jim (Connie’s Son), Denise (Jim’s wife), Mickey, Joaquin (kiddos of Jim and Denise), Connie and Steve to join us at the beach this past weekend!  We haven’t seen them for ~ 3 years since Hawaii in 2008!  Boy – time flies!  They were in town from So. California.  How peaceful and quiet this beach must be compared to the beaches down there! 

 

Alex was so excited to see Mickey and Joaquin – as we have watched the movies from Hawaii many times and Alex has very fond memories of playing with them.  He and Mickey are like two peas in a pod. 

 

 

 

Sara was just as happy as usual, playing with rocks (her favorite to put in her mouth) and buckets and shovels.

 

 

 

 

We bought these two floaties that had squirt guns that we thought would be fun.  The water turned out to be not as cold as you would think and the kids did decide to brave the waters.  And have some fun! 

 

 

 

 

My little “butt-cheek” boy with a peek of his cheeks sticking out of his shorts that just won’t stay up.

 

“the old days” kids would just float on a log instead of these “floatie” things… So, we did that too!

 

 

Which was all fun… until someone fell in and got really wet (and then really cold!).

 

 

So, we got him all warmed and dried up. 

 

And there was a FORT.  Oh – Alex has “discovered” the fort at the beach.  Over the years it has grown, changed, been added to – but Alex never really noticed.  But, now he knows.  He and the kids (Cousin Gwen joined us too!) played for hours over there.  Happily.

 

 

New kids bathroom!!!

 

 

 

 

First – the old bathroom.  Not horrible (no carpet or anything), but not great either.  There were daffodils on the blue tile, and the grout was failing.  The knobby thing that let the water drain (or hold it in for the bathtub) was broken, the sink had chips in it (sharp chips), and the toilet was not adequate, didn’t flush much…

 

 

 

 

 

So, one of the things on our goals this year was to re-do our kids bath/guest bath. 

 

We set a budget and set out getting estimates and plans.  It was fairly easy since I was just going to go with the same tile we had in our Master bath 3 years earlier. 

 

It’s so hard to pick what is my favorite…

 

The shower head with the hose, the new lighting, the new cabinet/granite/sink/faucet, the new tile flooring, the new toilet that flushes well, or the little touches that I gave it like the whale spout cover, the sticky whales/octopus in the tub, the art, the light blue walls, or the bright blue towels.  We still have to put up a couple of shelves, but we are mostly done! 

 

And it’s functional and beautiful.  And it was easy, just pull and replace. The contractors were great and we’re in the current century!