Lake weekend part 2

While at the cottage we headed to Olcott for dinner and a car show.

We also went to the Olcott Beach Carousel Park, a super cute carnival for kids. Tickets for each vintage ride were only a quarter, pretty neat. Ben had SO much fun :)

We ended the evening with a stroll through Krull Park. It’s where Andy asked me to marry him :)

Lake weekend part 1

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We headed to my mom and Paul’s cottage this weekend.

Ben was SO helpful with setting up the tent.

There was a lot of Cassidy loving.

She smiles now :)

My mom saved our old Little People and Ben was so excited to play with “the peoples.”

Andy discovered some blackberry bushes growing under the deck.

The coolest piece of driftwood had washed up to the cottage.

He still needs a name though.

We also had the maiden flight of Andy’s quadcopter.

Always tinkering with something!

Andy also got a jet ski lesson from Paul.

That night we enjoyed s’mores around the fire. If you were Andy, you enjoyed leftover chicken wings.

The boys had the great idea to hang a sparkler from the chinese lanterns they were sending off.

They did look pretty cool, and nothing caught on fire :)

It was a beautiful evening.

I headed to Lockport with the kids (that still sounds weird, plural) to do a ride on train event. Mud Creek Railroad is a 1 1/2″ scale railroad club. We have 6000′ of main line track with sidings, engine house, turn table, bridges, tunnel, and a trestle. The plan is to have around 5 miles of track in the upcoming years. Andy’s parents heard about an open house they were having for the community and asked if we’d like to go.

It was SO cute and very well done, you could tell members of the club really took pride in their hobby and enjoyed showing everything off. Ben loved every minute :)

Master “suite”

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We finally finished the hallway and master bedroom downstairs! Andy had to scrape off the old floor tile in the hallway.

And add some new drywall, this is the ceiling.

Then there was spackling. Don’t let the smile fool you, he HATES this part.

After the hallway was painted, Andy replaced the light. I’m in love with the one he picked. He had to work around the air ducts which were kind of a pain.

The hallway isn’t that big but there was enough room to put in this little storage unit. It’s right outside the bathroom so it holds soap, towels and other extra things.

View from the hallway into our new master bedroom.

It’s a cozy little room.

Our nightstands wouldn’t fit on the sides of the bed (told you, cozy) so we put them at the end and found smaller ones for the sides.

I picked the room color from the wedding quilt my mom made us.

This bedroom was originally Andy’s lair and painted what I call “painters tape blue.”

We repainted the room and rearranged the closet system so it would work better for our clothes (instead of boxes of electronics and computer parts).

View from the bedroom to the bathroom across the hall. Close enough to an attached master bath, I’ll take it!

We actually bought a TV for the bedroom too! I know, it goes against everything Andy stands for ;-) Believe it or not all the flat screens he’s found at the dump were too big for this little spot behind the door. All the wires and computer are inside the closet behind the TV.

I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about having our bedroom on a separate floor from the kiddos (we have two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs). But I LOVE it! All the toys, diapers and flashing things are upstairs and we have our own little adult area downstairs. You can see the before, during and after photos of the room here.