Around the house in August

Emily and I made a trip to visit Carolyn and of course we had to visit Sam's as well. This is just a dent of the damages.

I was getting ready for work and Benjamin was getting clothes on for the day. When we saw each other again, Ben Ben realized we were matching and he wanted to document with a picture. Sweet little thing.

Of course while we were visiting Carolyn, we had to swing by to see our very first house. My how the area has changed!

The painting Emily did for Carolyn's kitchen wall. It turned out amazing!!!

Yummy cinnamon rolls and hamburger buns about to go into the oven!

Scully has never been a water kind of dog. She'll get her toes wet in the creek, but you can forget the pond. Well...until someone throws a rope tied to a stick in the pond that is! Crazy thing goes nuts for the end of that rope.

And doesn't mind diving in all the way apparently.

All 3 puppies waiting for their turn to jump in.

It's a new Scully!

Ella Claire's new favorite move is Troll Hunter. This is her lego version of the troll hunter's truck and camper rig. It's pretty spot on!

The stove arrived and now it's time to plug it up to the chimney so we can actually use it this winter. We called several chimney guys. Only one guy returned my call and came out to look at it. They said no problem we can certainly do that. Then NOTHING. No answers, no returned calls or texts.

So of course Perry to the rescue. We found a place to rent a massive saw and he started cutting.

It was a little messy to say the least and there were a couple of mishaps, but he got it done!

Of course, it couldn't just be an easy cut and done deal. There ended up being two terracotta pipes behind the rocks and he drilled into them both. Wouldn't you know it. He decided to fill the whole we concrete and make it connect all into one. Pretty cool!