Memorial Weekend

Memorial Weekend is typically the first camping trip of the season for our family. 

We've gone the last several years. I forget to book far in advance, so it's always a mystery where we will wind up.  Always a good time tho, and I like it that way :)

Well, earlier this spring we made the decision that this was the year we would finally complete our deck out back.  Remember our house addition that began when Stella was born? Well, since our deck spans the entire back of the house, it's been one of those projects that's been put on the back burner...because it's a big project, and we weren't really sure what we wanted.

Late this winter, while flipping through the calendar and filling in committments, we realized that between soccer, Spring Break, weddings, showers, trips, 5k's, etc. we didn't have a free Saturday to work on anything until Memorial Weekend.  So rather than go camping this year, we decided to stay home and work around the house. The mantra soon became "Project Big Deck" and "Get that pile of woodchips off the driveway." :)

And it was a good weekend.
 A nice balance between work and play. 
Tho it would have been nice to go camping, it felt good to get a few things done.

We did have a giant bonfire one night in camping spirit.

Join me on a pictoral journey through our weekend, will you?

The main event....Tim got a real good start on the deck.

We enjoyed a steamy hot Whitecaps game with the kids ...

I re-painted and recovered all of our barstools! 

My counter now resembles a box of trix :)

This one is my favorite... :)

We bought a go-cart.

Naturally, Sydney caught a turtle.

A bat flew into our house.
The look on his face says it all :)




And I'm happy to say the woodchip pile is gone, and the garden is planted!