August stuff: splash pad, painting, surprise party, picnics, and sunsets

We went to a cool park that has a splash pad one day.

  

 

Here’s a couple random pics of the girls playing.

 

In August we repainted the entry, the first color we tried (SW Crushed Ice) turned out too blue in there.  After doing LOTS of reading and staring at a couple dozen paint chips I collected from all over that I had taped up on the wall for weeks, I settled on 2 colors to sample.  The darker color is BM Revere Pewter and the lighter is Valspar Oatlands Subtle Taupe.

 

I really liked both of them and could have gone either way (I changed my mind every other day looking at the swatches, which I painted EVERYWHERE) but we ended up going with the lighter one on the left of the door, Oatlands Subtle Taupe.  The Revere Pewter was a little bit too brown for what I was going for and was too close to the color of the carpet on the stairs.

In August, we also hosted a surprise birthday party for our friend Jake. Kim’s so on top of things, I should have been doing this for Dan!  When he first saw all of us in the front room he looked a little… mad.  I don’t remember thinking he was mad, but that’s definitely how he looks in these pictures!

 

There, now he looks happy!

 

That’s all of the photos I got for some reason, I think I got too busy being a hostess, it was really fun to have our house full of friends!

Over the summer the girls really liked to have picnics out back on pleasant evenings.  Check out that grass, btw!  It came in nice eh?  We’re pretty happy about it.

We enjoy lots of sunsets looking out the back of our house, one day while looking at the sunset I commented that we live in a beautiful place.  Now Sophie says, “Mom, we live in such a beautiful place!” every time she sees a sunset in her sweetest sarcastic voice.  Children are a perfect mirror aren’t they?  Mine copy everything I do and say.  For better or worse!