Our 2nd Anniversary Stay-cation

It's was our 2nd anniversary earlier this week. It's gone by fast. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun. We really do have a lot of fun together and have accomplished a lot together and learned a lot about each other. Thanks for 2 great years babe, I can't wait for the rest.

What did we do to celebrate, you ask? We did more work on the house and the yard. Not exotic, I realize, but it was beautiful weather and we got so much done.

Monday of course was Joshua's birthday. We worked in the garden and flower beds and pulled quite a pile of weeds. I gave Joshua a good laugh for his birthday when I fell head first into the big green-waste garbage can. I can't really describe how I managed this, but needless to say, gravity was not my friend. It hurt, but I'm sure was hysterical to see.

Tuesday and Wednesday we worked on getting the swamp-cooler up and running after deciding we did not want to go into debt to have air conditioning installed. Joshua, bless his heart, is an amazingly patient and resourceful man. The swamp cooler was not an easy fix and it took many trips to Lowes and up and down the ladder to get it working, but working it is and our house is hopefully ready for the looming summer heat.

Though he didn't get much time to use it, he hung his anniversary gift/hammock in the yard. I'll lose the honey-do list next week so he can have some time with a good book in the shade. He totally earned it!

Yesterday, we took an us day. We slept late, played on facebook (totally addicted to Farm Town right now) and then went to the new Terminator movie--like it.) Went to dinner, ate on the patio (the weather couldn't have been more perfect this week) and then went for a drive up Butterfeild Canyon. It was finally a relaxing day in our stay-cation.

Today, I'm back in painting mode. My sister Holly came over to help me get started. It's about half way done, but I still have to do some plastering and sanding before I can do the rest. Elizabeth and James, I really do hope it's done before you get here. But if not, we'll share the upstairs bathroom.

This stay-cation has been more exhausting than any trip around the world I can possibly imagine. Maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit. We do feel accomplished but look forward to taking a camping trip somewhere where there's nothing to do but relax.