4th of July weekend

It's been a long weekend, but a good one. Dave had the 4th and 5th of July off of work, and since we didn't go to the cabin, we decided to paint the office and make it Logan's room. The goal was to get this done before November (because the baby will go in Logan's room with all the nursery decorations). 

Now more was involved than just painting the walls: we also had to paint the off white ceiling, replaced the trim and closet doors too. Throughout the house we have sliding closet doors, which mean you have to access only half of the closet. And the trim was so ghetto (dinged up). It was about an inch tall and I'm pretty sure it's original trim. So we painted the ceiling, followed by the walls and closet shelf. Then we installed the trim and doors. 

It looks great! We moved Logan's furniture into his room, and he's had so much fun with the new set up. Before he had his books on his book shelf, but I've moved the books into the closet (I'm tired of cleaning them up constantly), and moved a few of his toys onto the book shelf. He just loves getting them out whenever he wants and playing with them. Eventually we have a top bunk to add to this one, but until I trust Logan to climb that high, I don't really want to set it up.

He's had a hard time adjusting to his new room. The first night at bed time, he walked into the office, sat down on the ground and started crying "Logan's bed gone!" But over the past few naps and nights he has done well. 

Logan found some Christmas ornaments when we were moving the office stuff that has Dave's Maternal Grandparents pictures on them (they passed away years ago), and he has claimed these as his own. He keeps them on the head of his bed with his picture of Jesus and when he goes to bed he tells us "Great Grandma & Great Papa watching over Logan". Sometimes at nap time he will play with them before going to sleep and I'll find them wrapped up in the sheets.

We got to watch a ton of fire works over the past few nights. Since the ariel fire works are now legal in Utah, we climbed up on the roof a few times to get a view of all the shows going on in the neighborhood. It's nice to enjoy them while Logan is sleeping soundly in his bed.

Sunday we got to stop by to visit my Dad. He's been having a rough time (he has a yeast/fungal infection in his blood from the hospital), but now that he's on antibiotics to target that, we're hoping he can get better soon. Logan brought some games and books for Dad to play with him, and they had fun together. We got to chat and left them with a few movies to relax to.

Supposed to be filling the colander, not emptying it!

We've been really enjoying our garden over the past week. Logan discovered our raspberries and cherry tomatoes are ripe and ready for the picking. I have a hard time keeping him out of the fruit if we go into the back yard. We also have been enjoying our zucchinis (grilled zucchini, stuffed zucchini, zucchini lasagna, zucchini bread...). It's been so delicious! The insane has been hard on the garden, but we're hoping it can survive and keep producing. 

Finishing off the raspberries

Other than that, I've just been re-organizing the office in it's new space. I still can't find where I put the cord to my sewing machine! I'm dyeing to get some work done on the quilt I'm trying to finish, but I'm stumped. Hopefully I can find the cord soon.