paint colors

I never knew that finding a pale grey/gray color was so difficult.  A total of 14 paint samples have gone on our living room wall.  NONE are working.  They either have yellow, green, blue, brown or purple undertones.  I believe now that it probably has more to do with our lovely brown carpet and brown couches - but I still cant seem to pick a color.  Its a small room that is open to our kitchen that is grey/white/black so I wanted to paint the walls in something that would be a neutral color that would blend to the kitchen.  Between elephant skin, rain water, grey skies, sterling, pewter- etc etc its just not working so the room that should be so easy to complete - has still a lot of work to be done.
I have considered just painting it white again...afterall picking a white paint cant be THIS difficult!

Kitchen Progress

While I thought we would do the white subway tile to match the fireplace in the adjoining room...I saw this mosaic and reconsidered.  Our tile backsplash in the kitchen is coming along

Halloween Madness

A little slice of our Halloween this year.

Family Fall Hike

Weve been a little preoccupied with projects around the house to get out much.  Its been a bit sad really.  There is nothing more that I love than to be outdoors as much as possible.  So even though Jonathan is sick...we took the kids on a short but very pretty hike not far from our house. 

Not really sure why these pictures are so small...They really are great pics of the fall colors in normal size.

In other news- Jonathans Ireland trip was cancelled two days prior to departure- Raegan had to postpone her trip due to a family emergency.  Halloween is next week and honestly I havent thought much about it- and Elijiahs Birthday is also coming up quick.  What to do what to do...

Surgery news

( right before he went in)

Wow two posts in one week! Im on a roll.

Well considering Jonathans surgery --I had to document it for our posterity! Many of you may or may not know that Jonathan has suffered for years with sinus issues. This last round of sinus issues has lasted for several months with terrible daily headaches that would cause him to have to leave work or be on tons of medication with little relief. There was discussion of doing the sinus surgery for a long time, but it seemed like a last resort as folks reported mixed reviews on the outcome.

He hit his breaking point though and we decided to go for it. Needless to say, the day of surgery came and we thought it would be a simple affair. We didn’t count on a 2 hour surgery lasting 4.5 hours or me getting a migraine while at the hospital with no medication on me. I cant tell you how much I wanted to go to a nurse and ask if they had imitrex they could give me. Can you imagine? lol Anyway I wasn’t able to be much help after being at the hospital from 11-6:30 pm with the pain I was in---and so Jonathans parents came and picked us up and took us home. I wont go into the VERY yucky stuff that is currently draining out of his face, or how much pain hes has-not sure what we are in for as far as recovery goes, but Jonathan is hoping he will be ready to board his plane for Ireland come next Thursday. 

FHE anyone?

( not the place we went btw- camera charger still missing since move- sure looks good tho)

In trying to get it all done-

Pick up T after work

Pick up J

Pick up E

Go to ski store and grab our waxed up skis, and get Tristan his…

While in the car on the way to get Pumpkins for family night do a quick FHE lesson in the car

Figure it’s a captive audience

Doesn’t go well

Pumpkin picking quite the let down

Family dinner turned out to be Jonathan and I as the boys spent it in time out

Elijiahs 5 minute time out turned into ALL night time out and he was asleep in bed by 7:30

Not so lucky with T- he didn’t turn in so quickly

Night ended on a high note however, but yea family night was anything but.

Whats up?

Things that are happening around here:


1. We are starting on the basement this weekend( cross our fingers)

2. Jonathan will be traveling for 10 days to Ireland for work( SOOO Jealous)

3. Im running about 5 days a week and haven’t lost a pound. I think that extra 7 pounds I gained from last year is here to stay- LOVE getting older!

4. Tristan started preschool and hes doing awesome!!

5. Elijiah has had a great season of competitive soccer and has improved 10 fold!

6. Headed for Vegas for a short 3 day conference- Please Sun be shining

7. Got new ski gear for all of us( Merry Christmas). It’s the year to get Tristan on the slopes!

8. I don’t know if Jonathan and I have had more than 10 minutes of “Us” time in the last month. Looking forward to a date night next week!

9. Baby on the brain is here to stay. Slightly more than depressed with the whole thing.

10. Raegan and family will be coming for a week! It will be great to see her and the kids!