A New Kind of Painting

My project for today was painting the house. The outside. Our old house had vinyl siding that never needed painting, so I wasn't exactly sure how this would go! Luckily, the whole house does not need painted. There are just spots here and there where the paint has been scraped off, so I wanted to see if I could do some touch ups. I'm so mad I didn't take a before picture, but I was able to find this picture from months ago that shows what I'm talking about.

I thought this would be a good place to test it out because it's not too big and it's kind of hidden underneath the deck by the hot tub. We were so lucky that they left us the paint that they had used on the house and deck, so we can get more as we need it too.

It ended up looking great! I only did one coat and didn't get close to the edges, and you can't even tell. It didn't take me long to do this area either. I could probably have the whole house painted in a week if I was crazy enough. 😁 I think I'll stick to touchups for now. 

I had to snap several pictures after school today. I just cannot get over the gorgeous view! I don't think any of the kids have windows in their classrooms that face this way. Thank goodness! It would be hard to concentrate looking at this!

Talan was excited that I let him sit in the front seat. 😊

Easton was even more excited that he got to sit next to mom...or maybe it was because I had the bag of snacks. 😂

Neither of the boys were happy with the way they played in their first game, so we took them to the park for some Daddy coaching. 

Easton hit nearly every ball that Brett pitched to him. Too bad he can't pitch to him in the game! 😁

He hit this one so far that it went in the creek. Mom to the rescue! Talan didn't want to get his feet wet.

Talan also hit almost every ball too! He can hit it hard when he tries. Brett told him he's at about an 8 in skills and 0 in effort. Man! Daddy coaching is rough! 😂

The bugs at this park were insane. I looked on my phone to see if there was another park nearby and I found one. I hit the Directions button and it said it was 300 ft behind me. Oops, same park. I'm such a dork sometimes! 

So we moved on to fielding and listened to the whining about the bugs until it was time to go pick up Janae from volleyball. 

I had to get this hilarious picture of Talan from the backseat. He and Brett were yelling in girl voices out the window to his friend and he got the giggles and could not stop. If you have heard Talan's giggle, you know what I'm talking about. It's addictive. 😊

After we picked up Janae, we headed straight to church. This is our last week out of the church for the construction, and it was held at the Civic Center. There was this awesome sculpture thingy on the wall inside. It's hard to tell, but it's 3D. It was so beautiful, I just had to get a picture. Janae gets so embarrassed at me snapping pictures everywhere we go. I love it! 😂

Eighteen years ago, Pathways had church in this building every Sunday for ten years. They spent an hour and forty minutes setting it up for church every single Sunday. At one point they had bought land for $500,000 that they eventually wanted to build on. It was going to be at a prime location, but then the roadways were changed and they decided it was too expensive to take the risk and put it up for sale. A big company bought it for $1.3 million and they were able to not only buy cheaper land, but to build a church on it as well. From there the church grew from one small service to five 400+ services. 

It's crazy how the church has grown, and how they have taken so many leaps of faith throughout it all. I really enjoyed listening to some of the stories of when they first started the church. The more we learn, the more it's starting to feel like our church. CCN will always be our home church, but it sure does feel good to have another church family. 😊