Friday's Fave Five: June 25

I took a couple of weeks off, which means I have even more to be grateful for! Life has been pretty busy lately and then last week I was away on our annual middle school summer camp trip (with 62 middle schoolers!) so I am started to feel caught up now...although that never lasts more than a day or so!

1. Judah Time! I got to spend a week (while I was away at camp) bonding with just my youngest. Micah got to stay with grandma and spend time with friends, so he had a blast...but it was nice and special to have lots of Judah time!

2. Cuteness! My boys are just so stinkin' adorable! Whether they are awake, sleeping, or screaming (okay, so in that moment I am not thinking how cute they are, but they still are!)...

(don't worry, he is not in pain, he is desperately wanting something other than the broccoli he is supposed to be eating...and yes, that is a tattoo on his stomach, but it washed off in the pool...it was fake.)

Still SO cute!

3. Father's Day. I started about 2 weeks early since we were going to be gone the whole week leading up to it...I was excited that Micah could "help" make something this year for "dadda" but it didn't turn out quite as well as I had hoped. Ultimately, I wish I had someone standing by to film the process because surely that would have been a much better present than our final result. A couple of pictures that I managed to take...

For some reason it didn't equate with him that it was just finger paint. Surely it was face paint, or mouth paint, or food...something better than just finger paint!

You might assume part of the process was eating some chocolate...nope. This is when he decided to eat the brown crayon instead of coloring with it on the paper! Fully eating the crayon! Had to go brush it out of his teeth! The kid refuses to eat broccoli, but when it comes to brown crayons he is all "mmmmmmmmmmmm"! Crazy day!

4. Hand-me-downs. I am all about them! About 95% of our boy's clothes have been given to us. And their toys and shoes and whatever else they use besides diapers. It's a great way to go. Toys are SO expensive and who knows what they will truly end up cherishing...well, Micah LOVES trains...and lo and behold we were given a great train set by a friend that he adores! He just sits there and plays with them and sings "choo choo" in a high pitched voice over and over!

(We are going to redo these floors like we have the kitchen floors, but they are still in the hideous stage right now!)


5. New Kitchen. It is coming along so great! We have very minor touch-ups at this point, but for the most part, it is new, and improved, and SO nice to walk into each day.

I don't have a great before picture, but this gives a view of some of the layers of flooring we took up to find the wood, shows the white counter tops and yellow walls...doesn't show the metal sink that wasn't terrible except for the nails-scraping-the-chalkboard noise when the water was running!

Hard to get a picture of it all, this still doesn't show the new sink. We found a great one on craigslist and it works, sounds and looks worlds better! And this shows the white, gray, and red walls that we painted, the black "marbled" counter tops that we painted, and the newer-looking freshly painted cabinets. It feels great.

We've been busy. But it's been a good sort of busy too. I feel like I could keep writing things...which is good. It's good to feel so grateful!

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