Lately

Lately, we have been SO busy. Let me try to re-cap for the four of you who follow my blog:

--Moved into our new house on July 24. We love it and I am trying to get organized and all settled in before I have to go back to work. I am afraid that's not going to happen, though...our first meeting is Aug. 21 and I have a LOT to do. I should not be blogging right now. I should be putting something away.
--Went camping at Fort Stevens State Park on the Oregon Coast the first week of August. We had perfect weather; it didn't rain until the day we left. Outstanding, because I am not a fan of being dirty and, since camping is dirty in general, rain would make it much worse. We went to the beach at the park, as well as down to Seaside and Cannon Beach. The girls had a ball.
--Went to a wedding the day after we got back from camping. It was in this itty-bitty town called Colton, which is about 15 miles from Pullman. The wedding was beautiful -- held outside amid the rolling wheat (or whatever they grow out there) fields and then the reception was in a barn (a very clean barn). It was fun.
--Painted two beds and a dresser. The beds are from my grandmother and I have discovered that they are not, in fact, twin size. They look like twins...but when you put the matress on, it falls through the rails. Oh...all that work...and now I have to figure out a way to modify them OR spend money for new matresses. I am not a fan of spending money on things that I didn't plan to, so I'm against this and am hoping for modification. The dresser is actually the girls' old changing table; I painted it the same color (cake batter) as the beds and it turned out fine. With all three pieces I kept trying to remind myself of this blog that I visited recently -- her mantra is "it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful (so I can give credit where it's due -- http://nestingplacenc.blogspot.com) ." Hmmmmm....I'm not completely finished with these projects yet. I also need to paint our old china hutch. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow.
--What else...I've taken the girls to the mushroom pool a couple of times so they can see their school friends, had lots of friends come over to see the new house, unpacked a ton of crap (I mean that...why did we move this stuff), and that's about it. Oh, and I've also kept up on my new frugal plan of eating IN way more often. With the new mortgage, we should! :-) Plus, I have a new, super-fabulous kitchen to cook in, so I'm not minding.

Since this is a long post, I think I will go to bed and write more tomorrow! And maybe post some pictures of the house and projects...we will see. We are supposed to go to the farmer's market in the AM and then pull weeds (in the hopes of having sprinklers put in this weekend). So it could be a busy day.