Weekending it

It was a low-key weekend for us and it helped me to prepare emotionally for fall.  We did so much this summer and I am starting to feel ready for quieter weekends.

On Friday, Dan and I met at Lowe's after work.  We stocked-up on households and picked a paint color for the entryway.  When we got home we recharged our batteries with some Papa Johns pizza and some Parks and Rec before clearing out the furniture in the entryway.

Then we taped everything off and "cut-in" the trim.

We started at 7 pm and finished the first coat at midnight.

Saturday morning we started with some donut motivation and tackled the second coat of paint.

By the afternoon the paint had dried and we put all the furniture back. 

The project took less than 24 hours and we LOVE it.  It feels like a whole new apartment and I am crossing my fingers that the color stays clean and/or conceals any hand-prints that riddled the white walls.

In the afternoon we took a long walk through the fancy part of our neighborhood (think mansions) and got some real ice cream.

Then we sat on a bench overlooking the water and taking-in some sunnies.

Sunday was the last day of our Soccer/Arts camp at church.  Praise the Lord.  The kids had a blast but Dan and I are beat.  If we do the camp again we need to rethink volunteer recruitment.  

The craft was supposed to be watercolor paints but we couldn't find them in the bins so the little kids did play-doh and magna tiles and the two older girls shared the one set of paints I brought from home.  At the end all the kids went up into the service and got certificates of participation and goodie bags.

To celebrate the end of camp Dan and I got ice cream again which we justify because it is a mile walk to the ice cream parlor and back but mostly because we survived the seven-week camp and we are not about restricting ice cream.

Now we are staring down just a three-day work week before we leave for our anniversary mini trip to Wildwood/Cape May New Jersey.

Happy Monday!!