going fishin’

Saturday we took Hudson out to El Dorado lake and went fishing.  We borrowed a row boat and fishing pole from my brother-in-law and spent a few hours out on the lake.  It was beautiful out and Hudson had a wonderful time.   He loved the “fishing”.  He has wanted to go fishing every day since.

We threw a whole bunch of rocks in the boat before we left shore so Hudson could throw them in the water.  That was the cause of our one and only injury of the day - the rock in the face that I took.  Split my lip open and it bled for a little bit.  Hudson has watched Jamie skipping rocks and now he is starting to throw them sideways instead of overhand.  That time he let go of it way too late and it flew 3 feet and hit me in the face.  I was rowing the boat at the time and didn’t even see it coming!   

   

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Our new bed

I still can’t believe that we took this pile of lumber and with our own hands (okay, mostly Jamie’s hands!) built a new bed!  I am so excited to build more – I have a whole list of projects from Knock Off Wood. 

Here’s a picture timeline of our progress.  It took us about 2 weeks all together – including painting and finishing – to build it.

Hudson would cover his ears each time Jamie started the saw!

This similar bed at Pottery Barn costs $2195.00!

We built our bed for about $150 of lumber and a $5 gallon of OOPS paint I lucked out on at Home Depot!  

The Big Reveal

I am still not 100% completely done with the bedroom makeover but parts of it are at least finished enough to finally show off.   It takes me a ridiculously long time to use a sewing machine – hence the 3 week delay!  But I did get the stuff done I was working on – so here goes:

I will make a separate post about our new bed so you can see all the pics I took as we were building.

The pillows I made.  I just recovered the old pillows we already had.  If you don’t look too closely at my sewing they look beautiful!

 

Our new nightstands. 

Would you believe that I bought these off of Craig’s List for $10 -

and turned them into this?   I love it!

And some old lamps had got a coat of spray paint and glaze and the shade got some new fabric and this:

now looks like this:

And my curtains.  Definitely adventurous for a novice sewer such as myself.  Seriously, my experience/training on the sewing machine was my mom taking 2 minutes to show me how to thread the needle and fill the bobbin.  That’s why my sewing takes SOOO long!  They are definitely not perfect, but I hung them up anyways! 

Same word – different meaning

But it makes me laugh every time he does it!  Hopefully he figures it out before he’s old enough for t-ball or everyone will be laughing at him when the coach tells him to “choke up”.

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Our babies

Every summer the birds try to build a nest in our barbeque grill by going in through a little hole in the side of it.  We usually catch them in time and throw all the stuff out so they’ll go somewhere else but we missed it this year…so now we have this!   Aren’t they cute?   There were 4 eggs on Saturday when we found them and then Sunday 3 of them had already hatched.  I’m guessing the other one probably won’t hatch but maybe it still will.   

So far we haven’t scared the mom off looking at them but we try to not look very  often or keep the cover open very long.  Jamie’s afraid they are going to get too hot in there and croak – hopefully not!   Plus Zeus has discovered them so they are going to have to be careful when they start learning to fly!   We aren’t sure how long it’s going to take for them to leave the nest but we aren’t going to be using our bbq grill for awhile! 

Hudson loves to tell people that we have “baby birds in our bbq sauce!”  He doesn’t know the word grill so he calls it the only thing he knows…bbq sauce!

Golfing

Last week we went out to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls (well, Jamie did).  Hudson practiced on his swing and I took a book and read!  Golf is definitely one of the harder sports – it’s going to take a lot of practice for Hudson (and Daddy) to get good at it!   But Hudson keeps his tongue sticking way out there so you know he’s working hard!

 

Time for a little water break…

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BLAST ball

Garret (now preferrably (to him) known as Clint Mckeever –WSU’s 1st baseman) is playing BLAST ball this summer.  It’s the 4 year old version of t-ball.  There are 6 players per team, every player bats once  and plays the field every inning.  There is only a 1st base.  The players hit the ball, run to first base, then run back to the dugout.  The only fielding they do is stopping the ball and then picking it up and yelling “BLAST”.  They don’t try to throw it to first base to throw the runner out – and if the runner jumps on first base hard enough the base even makes a noise! 

We went to Garret’s game the other night – it was SUPER windy out so you’ll have to excuse the poor video!  Hudson had a lot of fun watching them play – he’s been into baseball quite a lot lately. And I might dare say that Garret might be more into baseball right now than firefighters!

 

Garret picked out his socks himself – these are his Christmas socks, they match his hat, obviously.

 

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