august 13, 2018

time flies!

tomorrow morning i head back home.. when i arrived i had a WHOLE MONTH ahead of me.. now  i am down to just over 24 hours.. today will be spent packing and listening to casey finish reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows so that we can watch part 2 of the movie, probably this evening.

casey finished up the tree house on friday.. it is magnificent.. still a little too warm for me to spend much time there, but the kids are in and out throughout the day..

and please leave your shoes outside before entering!

we had guests on wednesday and, of course, no barbecue is complete without children playing with fireworks 🎆🎇🎌

ray and chieko are raising beetles 🐛

leo keeps cool on these hot, hot days

august 7, 2018

hair update:

it took 3 hours, but the sides are 99% color free and i am pleased with the results...

what i don't really understand though, is why the color washes out after a couple of weeks of shampooing, but needs repeated bleaching to remove color i DON'T want!  anyway, this color, what ever it is, is fading much slower than the previous times.. yay..

casey has a couple of weeks off now, and has spent the last 4 days building a fort/treehouse for the boys.. one of his friends came over on sunday to help him get the foundation (?) started... 

he has been on his own, with limited help from me and chieko, since then

day 1

before clearing

after clearing

day 2

view from the house

view from the tree house/fort

day 3

leo played in the dirt underneath after doing a little staining of the siding....

casey rigged up the hose so he could rinse off in the "outdoor shower"

he had a lot of fun running back and forth.. still wearing his shoes and socks 😂

day 4

today the walls, siding and roof were completed..

tomorrow may be a day of rest or maybe a day of doors, painting and perhaps a ladder!