July a recap

Well  the Kitchen isn't finished (originally thought it would be complete in May, then June ...you get the idea) , we are still at the painting point- thanks to a combo of hot mud and painters tape, not getting on well, and pulling off our fresh paint.  I am hoping that painting will be finished this week and that next week brings, back breaking work with cement board -that is laying it on the ground over a layer of thinset-, after that i believe comes assembling the cabinets but at this stage i have lost track of what happens when ,i just know the stress continues.

Matt has been working at Microsoft now for just over a month and whether or not he is loving it (he is) is 'almost' immaterial to me  just seeing him come home in the evening is astounding the latest time he gets home is almost the earliest time he used to get home while working for Amazon. As i said earlier renovations in our future kitchen continue so he is still busy busy busy

July 27th we celebrated our 9th anniversary - yes we have been married forever and yes we are ancient, to celebrate we went on an underground tour of Seattle, it was fun and informative. Followed of course by dinner. seemed very low key this year, we didnt even get each other anything,  maybe we are tired of each other ;p

On saturday the 30th we celebrated our sealing date as a family since it is the date we became a forever family ( In Ireland and the UK you have to be married civilly before being married in the temple, we were married on a Saturday in Ireland the temple was closed in the UK on Monday thus we were sealed on a tuesday- in case anyone is wondering :) )  Since the theme for 9th anniversary is pottery the 3 of us went to a color me mine studio and painted a plate each - they will fire and glaze the plates for us and they will be ready for us to eat off of by the end of this week!

Emma is continuing half-heartedly doing school work while i enforce it half-heartedly/half of the time , summer seems to have finally arrived in the Northwest  and so i let her run around and play as much as she can while the sun is out - most of the time anyway. - We are both pretty sick of math facts but thankfully the reading part of the curriculum is not a hardship!



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