12M ~ August 2022

Gorgeous morning view! 

Only thing missing is some coffee which I don't have because, we are only staying here to sleep while visiting our friends whose house is currently undergoing a "surprise" remodeling.

The boys had fun jumping off the Bayside pier today! I'm not insane. I stayed on the dock. Nice and dry. 🤣

I'm definitely more of an ocean person! 🌊

12M ~ May 2021

Double header in Hampton means a trip to the beach while they do warm ups! 🏖️🌊🌞⚾

12M ~ February 2021

 I love where we live! ❄️☃️🌞

12M ~ February 2021

 Gorgeous sunrise!

12M ~ October 2020

Nice night for an after dinner walk. Love this time of year. 🍁🍂

12M ~ October 2020

Walking around downtown while we wait for a table at the Barley House.

 Enjoying outside dining while we still can, but it was very chilly by the time we got our meal! 🍂🍁🍃

PROJECT 12M ~ October 2018

The last piece to the backyard renovation!

Go Blue Dolphins!! 

PROJECT 12M ~ September 2018

Under construction again!  Hopefully this is it!

This kid! What a cool day out on the baseball field for the first week of Fall Ball double headers. Most notable was the "fake" grand slam he hit. He crushed the ball to the fence-line and he hustled, faster than I have ever seen him run! All base runners scored and then he took advantage of a botched throw and hustled home himself! Technically speaking it was a triple and he scored on an error but still not a bad at bat for the kid!

Fall Ball!

365 ~ 2016: Day 295

The view from my deck.  I LOVE Fall and my neighbors barn and fence!

365 ~ 2016: Day 252

Patio - Before and After.  It's almost complete and I can't wait to toast my first marshmallow!

365 ~ 2016: Day 209

These flowers give me a headache, but they are so gorgeous!

365 ~ 2015: Day 257

The landscaping completes the pool project perfectly!

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Came home from vacation to see the fence fully installed, all that is left to complete this project is the landscaping!  And just in time for this weeks heat wave!

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Plaster and water!  At 6am the plaster truck pulled into our backyard and finished a little after 11am.  To make sure the pool was filled for the start up that is scheduled for tomorrow morning we had two trucks of water delivered to give us a head start.  We had planned to just fill the entire pool with the hose, but it would not have taken too long.  The electricians were back getting everything wired and now we wait for the guy to turn it all one and show me how to run it all!  I plan to take lots of notes!  We still have some work to do with getting the fence (we have a temporary one right now) and fixing the yard, but we can swim and that is good enough for me right now!

365 ~ 2015: Day 216

Still a lot of work to be done, but we have a finished pool deck and equipment installed.  The pool was drained of the funk water today and washed down.  It's ready for plaster and water tomorrow!

365 ~ 2015: Day 214

The pool saga continues.  It's been an interesting process but the light is at the end of the tunnel and we've been assured we'll be swimming by Saturday!  The decking company started a week and a half ago with the grading and back-filling.  Then last Monday they came with a crew to install the bullnose coping.  We thought they would be here last Friday to install the pavers, but they were unable to start until today.  They are going full steam ahead and today they built the retaining wall at the bottom of the hill, the equipment slab installed, measured out and prepped the layout of the pavers and began the process of installation.  I am excited to see what the rest of the week brings.  Tomorrow they will finish up with the deck installation and the pool company will set the equipment.  Wednesday the electrician will hook it all up to the panel and then Thursday they will install the white plaster.  As soon as the plaster is installed we begin filling it up and they will start it all up on Friday.  I'm doing a little dance to the Pool Gods that all the ducks line up in a row to get this project completed this week!

365 ~ 2015: Day 202

The beginning process of the pool deck! Hoping to see a finished deck by the end of this week!

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Today, even though it is Sunday, we had the guys here to install the tile around the edge.  It took them about 3 hours to complete and it looks great! You can also see how much the deep end has filled from the ground water and with how hot it was today, it was tempting to just jump in!  Thankfully we have some really great city pools that we can venture to while we wait for ours to be completed!  The next phase is the decking, which should hopefully start tomorrow!

365 ~ 2015: Day 190

Today we could walk out onto the shell so I had the boys stand in the deep end!

365 ~ 2015: Day 189

The boys got a kick out of watching the crew shoot the gunite for the pool today.  It took 5 cement trucks, 5 guys and 6 hours to get to our new pool shell, they are like a well oiled machine.  Now it cures for a week.