August Ordinary Days (Part 1)

So with settling into the new house, a baby with a completely unpredictable schedule and a new school year, I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed with life. Add to those things my re-commitment to getting to bed earlier plus trying to be more productive around the house at night plus trying to spend less time on the computer to facilitate my other goals, the blog has been sadly neglected. But I just waded through most of my phone photos so here is a quick peek at life from the past month...

We are still REALLY enjoying our new pool, especially when Daddy gets to swim with us.  We all agree that Daddy is WAY more fun then Mommy in the pool!

Brian had a week of vacation house projects and "honey-do's" earlier in the month.  We did spend one day in the mountains (pictures may or may not be forthcoming), but Nana and Granddad helped us cross one big project crossed off our list: re-contouring the yard, adding topsoil in strategic places and laying sod.

This is at the end of the driveway where the water was heading downhill and collecting around the pool deck.  Brian and David, along with two sporadic helpers, tilled up this section of yard and reshaped to send water through the yard around the end of the pool.

When we bought the house, the drive was lined with decomposing railway ties, so we had those hauled off and filled in the gap with topsoil.  Hey, this might be the first picture of the new house on the blog!

The next day was sod-laying...

Ooooo, how pretty!

Cudding!



Nathan rigged up a "lock" for his bedroom door.

Goofing off with the camera...

And more pool time...