Olympia Field Trip

4th and 5th Grade field trip to Olympia.

tiles are in!

We finished the tile work with help from Gerrit who has done tiling before. We also did quite a bit of touch up painting on the trim. We are also getting our cabinets restained and that is about half done.

We got carried away painting.....

This last weekend we painted the kitchen. Then we decided....since all
the supplies were out, let's tackle the dining room too! In the 12
years we've lived here, the dining room has been under used and, well,
ignored. It was previously two shaded of off- white. And despite being
seldom used, was somehow dingy and scuffed up. It's now quite spiffy,
with chocolate brown lower, and a pretty fawn color above. Chair rail
and baseboard got a new coat of white trim. We're very pleased with it
(last step- we want a new chandelier to replace the dated brass-n-
glass one we have...but that will wait for a bit).

Kitchen design

For anyone wondering, we chose tile option #1 (see below). Tile has
been ordered, but we spent much of this last weekend painting. The
kitchen is now a slatey blue (although in all honesty, I thought it
was going to be a little bit greyer than it turned out, but I still
like it). Tile should be here in about a week or so, so we hope to be
done, done, done by end of January.

Bellingham

The boys and I spent 3 nights in Bellingham at nice A frame cabin on Sandy Point. We walked around downtown, WWU, Fairhaven, and even did some shopping at Bellis Fair. On New Years Eve day we went up to Mt. Baker and saw the snow. Meg's cousin Matt's wedding was New Years Eve in Bellingham. Meg and Ann joined us for the wedding and we were all able to stay up late and see the new year in. Here are a few pics. more on my flickr page.