What a wonderful weekend weather-wise!  And everything-wise, we had a great weekend in general.  Saturday morning we got out to the outlet mall for a couple of hours, getting Alex new shoes and clothes for the fall (hello after-school-has-started sales) 🙂

During naptime Ryan and I worked on the house, I got the first coat of red paint on the peak, and touched up the red molding (after filling the holes).  Ryan worked on the porch soffit (caulking) on the right side of the house where the hill is (his sister is afraid of heights and that was too much for her).

First coat only…

A soffit view, this was just after finishing up rounding the corner.

Then I got one railing primed – so we can finally see what they look like yellow, awesome!  After naptime we ran over to home depot and the grocery store (lots of errands to run!), so painting was done for the day.  Good progress though for just naptime (I also continued painting during after-nap-snack).

Sunday we went out to our favorite breakfast spot, then a stop at the park to get the crazy energy out.  At naptime it was just me out there painting (football season has officially started so Ryan was on kid duty for the rest of the day).  I got the second coat of red on the shakes, finished the prep on the porch soffit, then primed the last 2 sides (right side and back side on right), so the soffit is all yellow now.

The 2 sides I primed today (the posts aren’t done because i can reach them from standing). This is the one railing that is primed as well.

Finished shakes

I also repaired the crescent window up there, I still have to glaze it but the wood putty needs some time to dry so hopefully some day this week I can glaze the window and then next weekend get it painted along with touching up the trim up there.  Getting closer to calling something done!