Summer is ending

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted anything to our blog. The end of summer is upon us, so I am rushing to get all my last minute projects completed. I warned you last time that I was beginning our painting project. If I did not say so earlier.... I HATE PAINTING!! It took us about a week to complete everything. We moved all of our furniture out so that we could steam clean too. The bathroom's paint color is supposed to be Cherokee Tan, but as you can tell it is more of an olive green than anything tan. It is a beautiful color we were just planning on that shade of green for our bedroom. Anyway I found a different paint color for the bedroom olive gray. I thought it would be different than the bathroom. However I was wrong again it was pretty much the same color. The walls in the bedroom are textured though so that makes it look a little different. Oh well it is done and the walls look much cleaner. We really do like the colors too. It made the baseboards and our bedroom furniture just pop.

I also have been working really hard in my classroom to get it all ready for the start of school. This year we are starting school about 10 days earlier because we have had such bad winters lately. This past year we missed so many days of school due to bad weather that we had Saturday school and still not get out until June. I am not ready to go back quite this early but it will be really nice in May.

This past weekend John and I went to Kansas City to meet Kaitin and her Grandpa at the airport. She was just getting back from her visit to Washington. She had a good time. We are really happy she is back home!!! It was just too quiet without her. Her grandparents took her on two really exciting trips one to the beach in Oregon and another to MT. St. Helens. She brought back all sorts of seashells that she collected from the beach and a beautiful statue of Jesus and two children which was made out of Mt. St. Helens ash.When she arrived home and went outside she could not believe how hot it was outside. The temperature has been running close to 100 lately and with the heat index it feels about 115. We are focusing on getting her ready for school this week too. We are going to go to Branson one day this week and get her some new school clothes and all of her supplies for the year.