What a Summer!

Here's a recap of the last month. It has been busy. Where do the summers go??

I repainted the den and the kitchen with the help of Kristen and Chris.

The den is a classic taupe.

I stayed with purple for the kitchen, just did a better paint job and chose two different tones of purple.

We had new carpet installed just last week. What a process! Almost as hard as moving. Thank goodness Chris's Mom and Step-Dad were willing to help us out. Gary tore our carpet out all on his own! He says it keeps him young. I say we refuse to let him do such a job the next time he volunteers. Our stain covered carpet is out of here and in it's place is this beautiful "Maple Leaf" Mohawk Smart Strand carpet.



We took a trip down to Texas. It was Nate's first 14 hour road trip and his first trip to his Nana and Pa's house on Lake Granbury. I was pleased overall with how he did on the road. The ride down was a little rough, especially the last few hours. But we made it.

Seeing Nana and Meeting Donna

Playing with Pa

Meeting Uncle Dave and Aunt Stephanie

Meeting Great Uncle Randy

We also met our new niece, Helen Lucille. She was born a the end of June. She is an adorable baby girl with a head full of black hair. She has her dad's hair and skin tone and her mom's face! It was so odd holding such a little baby again. I forgot how floppy they are!

Nathan and Helen

Chris and I are Helen's godparents and we were lucky enough to be there for her Baptism.



Nate is standing on his own now. He's even taken a step or two on his own. But he's still mostly just crusing along the furniture and crawling around. He's eating basically everything we eat (in small bits of course), but he LOVES to eat.

He just turned 11 months old on Friday. It's hard to believe they go from this:



We're in the planning stages for Nathan's birthday. Invitations have been addressed and party hats ordered! We're going with a Baseball theme for the little guy! That reminds me... I need to order a cake! I better get on that.