June Album: pre-vacay

Summer is over in real-time (blogging in September), so I’m a little sad to be reflecting on what an awesome time we had anticipating it… plus we were looking forward to our big road trip in late June!  So  here it is: June before the vacay…

 

 

The biggest news before we left was that my wish finally came true: after 7 years of staring at this old, ugly siding, we finally got it removed!  Hallelujah!  Underneath is a beautiful original wood siding that was covered longer than it wasn’t covered. 

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AFTER:

And the BEST news is that we found a surprise window that had been covered up for 60 years. 

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Here’s Matthew, revealing it from the inside once we figured out where it was.  Who would cover such a beautiful window?  What a fantastic treasure, waiting to be discovered.

   

 

(This month of September, we’ve finally added trim to the inside, and it completely changes the living room orientation.  Trim was also added to the outside, and I have been selecting exterior paint colors!  Yippee!)

In other news, Dean graduated from kindergarten!  I treated him to ice cream on that last day.  We were both so proud.

  

Oh, and we got head lice.  Right before we left for vacation.  Father’s Day arrived sometime between the the combing of Fiona’s hair for lice from 11pm on Saturday and the combing of my hair until 2am.  Yes….  Colorado and New Mexico, here we come.