Grandma & Grandpa Newman Come to Town and Audrey Goes Camping

The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy around our house. Grandma & Grandpa Newman came to visit and we put them to work right away. Originally we told them we were planning to refinish & expand our deck, but we ended up changing our minds on them and decided to paint the house. Here are some before and after pictures.


It is so nice not to have a peach colored house anymore! We are still working on painting the trim and have some additional detail work to do with the screen doors and in the porches, but it looks great already. Once we get some pictures in better lighting we'll post more with the trim being completed.

After a couple days of slaving away on the warmest weekend we've had all summer...in the nineties, we packed up the two cars and headed up the river. We stopped at one of our favorite hiking places off the south fork of the McKenzie for some lunch and took a couple mile hike up river so that Matt, Gary & Kathy could fish for little trout. Audrey slept most of the time, but seems to enjoy being outside.


We then drove a little further upstream and found a nice car camping spot with plenty of room to set up our plush kitchen and have a great meal of porcupine balls, corn on the cob and salad...followed by strawberry shortcake.

Audrey was already a pro at her first campfire and camping in a tent seemed to come naturally to her. The following morning we got up and Matt had Audrey all decked out in her Patagonia gear - maybe they need a baby model for their catalog.


Another day of fishing brought on another day of relaxing for Audrey and I. Matt hooked up a hammock for us right on the river where I could read my book and nap. What a perfect spot!

We all had a great time having the grandparents visit. Thanks for coming out!