hmm
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well, the trim doesn't have quite the zesty contrast that we were going for ... hmm. in the parts where the trim is against the siding closer to eye level, it looks good, but the trim on the high trilevel peaks sort of blend in with the siding. scott pointed out that the sun was setting when we got home, which could impact how the color looks, and that we really need to wait for the gutters and new roof to be on before we can really judge the full effect. i'm a liiiittle bit disappointed thus far, but i'm trying to reign it in. plus, as i pointed out to scott, we'll likely need to paint the siding at some point! :)
high gear
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labels:
house
- january 27 - we had a handyman out and he told us to call a roofer about the flashing.
- january 30 - we had steve the roofer out, he mentioned that we have hail damage and should call our homeowner's insurance to have an adjuster come out, and left us with sample shingle boards "just in case".
- february 11 - tedd the adjuster finally made it out (after a few delays due to snow storm), confirmed that we're eligible for full replacement, and wrote us a check to get started on the roof.
- february 25 - we had our friend nick the painter out to give us a bid on trim painting
- march 4 - steve the roofer came back out to answer my myriad of questions regarding the project, and gave us a ring of sample gutter colors.
- march 5 - i faxed in a signed acceptance of the roofing company's final estimate.
- march 6 - we finalized our color picks, e-mailed them off to steve the roofer to place the order, and took the old gutters off our house so that we can get the trim painted pre-roofing.
- march 7 - we gave nick the painter the trim color chips.
- march 10 - steve the roofer says that our materials are set to be delivered on the 12th and that they are on schedule to start early next week.
- march 12 - nick the painter is painting our trim to a lovely clay color as i write this!
- march 15 - over two days, steve the roofer's crew will tear off the old roof, put on the new roof, and maybe replace a piece of water damaged soffit board or two if we ask nicely and pay them on the side.
- march 17 - daryl the gutter guy will install our lovely new galvalume gutters.
sunshine!
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labels:
date night,
family,
house,
spring
we are having such a lovely sunshiney weekend! we slept in this morning til 9 (ooh la la), finished picking our house colors, and went on a nice bike ride in the 55* sunshine for an hour or so. so fun - i love lazy saturdays! we also had leftover pizza for lunch, which i think is the 4th time this week that i've had pizza for a meal. we had planned to hang out with friends tonight and bring over a pizza, which will make 5 meals. i love pizza (truly, it's one of my favorite foods), but healthwise i think i might should take at least a week off of it.
last night was my birthday date, and it was super fun. we had another 5280 dinner at the melting pot which was soooooo good. i love fondue. we had fondue once at geja's in chicago and loved it, and i have been wanting fondue again ever since (wow, just realized that our geja's date was six years ago). i decided that if the melting pot participates in 5280 every year, i will happily make it my annual birthday dinner. in keeping with our tradition of doing a cultural date activity for my birthday each year, we got tickets to guys and dolls at the littleton town hall arts center, conveniently located three blocks from the melting pot. also very fun! the theater is small, maybe six or seven rows deep, but they do seating in the round, sort of a semi-circle shape around the stage so there really aren't any bad seats in the house. the musical was funny, engaging, and well acted. had i known at the time that the melting pot extended their 5280 special through the whole month of march (it was supposed to end last night) i think we would have done dinner and the show on a saturday night rather than after work on a friday, but still, very fun birthday date night!
last night was my birthday date, and it was super fun. we had another 5280 dinner at the melting pot which was soooooo good. i love fondue. we had fondue once at geja's in chicago and loved it, and i have been wanting fondue again ever since (wow, just realized that our geja's date was six years ago). i decided that if the melting pot participates in 5280 every year, i will happily make it my annual birthday dinner. in keeping with our tradition of doing a cultural date activity for my birthday each year, we got tickets to guys and dolls at the littleton town hall arts center, conveniently located three blocks from the melting pot. also very fun! the theater is small, maybe six or seven rows deep, but they do seating in the round, sort of a semi-circle shape around the stage so there really aren't any bad seats in the house. the musical was funny, engaging, and well acted. had i known at the time that the melting pot extended their 5280 special through the whole month of march (it was supposed to end last night) i think we would have done dinner and the show on a saturday night rather than after work on a friday, but still, very fun birthday date night!
vacation planning
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labels:
summer
i keep trying to convince myself that vacation traveling isn't really a necessity, that i'd much rather do something pracical and useful with the money we'd spend on a vacation - like putting it toward student loans, or into a retirement account. i'm not sure i have myself convinced, though, since i've researched five different vacations in the past week.
the vacation i had talked about surprising scott with was to san francisco. (i told him about it this last weekend - i just can't make that level of decision by myself!) i had great plans of renting bikes to ride over the golden gate bridge, taking the ferry to tour alcatraz, riding the cable cars, etc. i couldn't commit to it, though, and plane ticket prices went up a bit, which made me waffle even more. then last week i saw a 50% off special on rooftop seats for a cubs game, so i was looking into a springtime trip back to chicago - fun, right? i've also researched cabin rentals in yellowstone for the late summer, going to a marriage conference (campus crusade's "a weekend to remember") in lake tahoe, seattle, and spring cabin rentals here in colorado to go snowshoeing.
i finally told scott this weekend that i don't really care what we do, i think i just want to have something on the calendar to go somewhere fun this summer, even if it's just back to the mountain cabin where we spent a lovely long weekend last year. it's entirely possible that i was spoiled by the last two summers of amazing vacations - alaska two years ago, and our grand tour de colorado last summer.
the vacation i had talked about surprising scott with was to san francisco. (i told him about it this last weekend - i just can't make that level of decision by myself!) i had great plans of renting bikes to ride over the golden gate bridge, taking the ferry to tour alcatraz, riding the cable cars, etc. i couldn't commit to it, though, and plane ticket prices went up a bit, which made me waffle even more. then last week i saw a 50% off special on rooftop seats for a cubs game, so i was looking into a springtime trip back to chicago - fun, right? i've also researched cabin rentals in yellowstone for the late summer, going to a marriage conference (campus crusade's "a weekend to remember") in lake tahoe, seattle, and spring cabin rentals here in colorado to go snowshoeing.
i finally told scott this weekend that i don't really care what we do, i think i just want to have something on the calendar to go somewhere fun this summer, even if it's just back to the mountain cabin where we spent a lovely long weekend last year. it's entirely possible that i was spoiled by the last two summers of amazing vacations - alaska two years ago, and our grand tour de colorado last summer.
weekend review
we made it to kinley's birthday party on saturday night - so fun! our friends lori and aaron came up a bit earlier in the afternoon and hung out at our house with us for a bit to catch up before the party. maura's sister brook and her family were there, as were mike's mom and step-dad, so it was a small party, but still a good time. we got to eat kinley's favorite foods, which consisted of macaroni and cheese, calzones, lil smokies in bbq sauce, and fresh fruits and veggies - very diverse, no? it is amazing to watch 2-year olds open presents, by the way. brook's oldest boy's bday is today so maura got him a few gifts to open while kinley opened her presents, and between the two toddlers, it was like a whirlwind of shredded paper and flying boxes and squeals of delight. sadly the two cute outfits we got kinley were nowhere near as big a hit with her as the giant legos and babydoll outfits she got from grandparents - alas. maura liked them, though, which counts for something!
also this weekend, i finally bought myself a food processor! i've been debating the purchase for approximately 3 years, and had purchased a small 1-2 cup food chopper at wal-mart a while back in an attempt to convince myself i didn't need an expensive kitchen appliance, but hated it and thus never used it. in reading reviews of food processors on consumer reports, though, i found that kitchen aid and cuisinart food processors are basically ranked the same - but bed bath and beyond has a $20 mail-in-rebate on their kitchen aid food processors! so between a b3's 20% off coupon (which doesn't exclude kitchen aid - i was surprised!), a $24 in-store credit leftover from christmas, and the $20 mail in rebate, i got this normally $200 food processor for $115 + tax, which is 44% off. awesome! i haven't used it yet (although i should have last night - i had to chop two onions and a bunch of celery and cilantro for the pioneer woman's thai chicken soup), but i'm very excited. homemade pesto here i come.
i've been fighting a cold for the past week, and apparently my body decided to add a stomach bug to that last night. i made dinner, started feeling gross and took my temperature to find it at 96.15*. what? i then spent the rest of the night curled up on the sofa under three blankets, with a bottle of pepto by my side, a packet of saltines on my lap, and watching my gilmore girls season 3 dvd. by the time i went to bed, my temperature was a normal (for me) 97.6*, but this morning as i was getting ready for work, it was up to 99.4*. i took some tylenol and headed to work anyway, and so far i'm surviving the day. i'm tired and my tummy still hurts, though, so i'm debating canceling tutoring for tonight ...
also this weekend, i finally bought myself a food processor! i've been debating the purchase for approximately 3 years, and had purchased a small 1-2 cup food chopper at wal-mart a while back in an attempt to convince myself i didn't need an expensive kitchen appliance, but hated it and thus never used it. in reading reviews of food processors on consumer reports, though, i found that kitchen aid and cuisinart food processors are basically ranked the same - but bed bath and beyond has a $20 mail-in-rebate on their kitchen aid food processors! so between a b3's 20% off coupon (which doesn't exclude kitchen aid - i was surprised!), a $24 in-store credit leftover from christmas, and the $20 mail in rebate, i got this normally $200 food processor for $115 + tax, which is 44% off. awesome! i haven't used it yet (although i should have last night - i had to chop two onions and a bunch of celery and cilantro for the pioneer woman's thai chicken soup), but i'm very excited. homemade pesto here i come.
i've been fighting a cold for the past week, and apparently my body decided to add a stomach bug to that last night. i made dinner, started feeling gross and took my temperature to find it at 96.15*. what? i then spent the rest of the night curled up on the sofa under three blankets, with a bottle of pepto by my side, a packet of saltines on my lap, and watching my gilmore girls season 3 dvd. by the time i went to bed, my temperature was a normal (for me) 97.6*, but this morning as i was getting ready for work, it was up to 99.4*. i took some tylenol and headed to work anyway, and so far i'm surviving the day. i'm tired and my tummy still hurts, though, so i'm debating canceling tutoring for tonight ...
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