A walk and a bathroom

My least favorite time of day is from about 4-6:30. That's the post-nap-but-still-have-two-hours-until-Dan-gets-home time. Most days that's when I go to the gym. Fridays, however, the gym doesn't have classes at that time (I'm all about the classes) so this Friday we took a nice walk to kill some time.

First I took some pics of our azaleas. I'm glad I did because it got down to 33 degrees last night so the flowers might die.

 This pic is out of order and I am too lazy to fix it. That's my gnome. His name is Marty.

 "Cheese!"

We stopped at a random little nature spot which is just a raised platform and a few benches looking off into the woods. I wanted to take some pictures of the redbuds that are beginning to bloom.

And the kids goofed off for a little while.

This is obviously totally overexposed, but I like it for some reason. Maybe because I'm partial to the subject.

 Sam showing off some sticks he was playing with.

 I also took a little video. It's nothing too exciting, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Afton thought I was just taking her picture so she kept saying "Cheese!" And I'm really bad at manually focusing the video.

In other news, we recently finished our powder room. Here's the before with some funky paint action going on. The color at the top of the room is the original.

After:

Dan's mom gave me a few doilies from Ukraine like 7 years ago and I never really knew what to do with them (I mean, I know what they're for, but I wanted to use them in a cooler way). So after I bought a new towel, I bought orange fabric to tie in w/ the orange on the towel and used it as a backdrop for one of the doilies.

I'm not sure I'm sold on the orange, but it's just cheap fabric and a quick fix if I decide I want to change things up down the road. When we were painting we discovered that the mirror was glued to the wall. When we took it down, the huge glue globs were was all funky on the back so we bought a new mirror and Dan framed it and stained it.

The end.