Mov'in Right Along

Last weekend we decided to make the best of our last few days of sun. I, once again was up before 6:30am both days bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. After finally getting Colton to roll out of bed Saturday, we got pretty gung hoe on the wood shed.

Nailing down the last few cross pieces

The roof!

We got the wood shed finished and we already had enough wood stored up for about 3 ricks (this is the term Colton used not quite sure)

Then after some hard work we got cleaned up and headed to Sauvie Island to do some farm hopping. I think we were a little early cause it was transition season between heavy harvest and pumpkin-pickers. We did come home with 12 ears of corn that we u-picked and some good produce. Then we headed to NW 23rd (one of my favorite streets to just hang out on) for a slice of pizza and super good dessert at Papa Haydens. Ladies every girl needs to go here for some awesome sweetness

Sunday we headed to Walmart for some canning supplies since we got Grandma's pickle recipe and on our way Colton decided to show me another farm stand that "he kept forgetting to tell me about". I was so mad at him for not showing me it earlier because it was local produce close to our house and super cheap. I can't believe I missed out on this place all summer!! Well good thing we hadn't got our canning supplies first....we decided to make another family call to Deb for the secret family salsa recipe.

By the end of Sunday we had canned 11 jars of pickles and 23 jars of cooked salsa. We were beat but super excited about all our treats. Every ones trying to get the salsa recipe now and Libby's dieing for some pickles. Guess we'll just have to do a little Indian trading :-)

Our progress on the floor is going really good. We are finally in the hallway and it looks awesome!! Every time we open a new box Colton ooooossss and awwwwsssss over the different wood colors. Something about these Cooley boys gets them all excited inside for wood I swear sap runs through them instead of blood :)

Kimber really likes it

These will be sooo tasty I can feel it

This salsa is heavenly. I guess I'm really Cooley now since I know the recipe

I hope everyone is enjoying the leaves falling and all the different fall colors. This is probably my favorite time of year. Every things is really pretty; you still get a touch of sunny weather with a few cozy cuddle days when its raining. Just enough of both.

luvs CRK

Its been awhile.....

I was getting ready for this post tonight by uploading pictures of some house projects, when I saw some pictures from labor day. Gosh I'm bad at updating this thing. I feel like I'm overwhelming people with my posts because there so long and full of some much stuff. 

Well I guess I haven't updated since labor day weekend. A much needed long weekend was spent with two of our favorite friends, Garrette and Amy. The four of us did a small road trip to Coos Bay venturing to Garrettes neck of the woods. He grew up in Coos Bay and his super great parents welcomed us to stay the weekend with them. His mom Cindy fed us some really great food and did a awesome job hosting. Garrettes dad Randy is a whole other story :) Everyone needs to meet a guy like him! Super crazy, super funny and just a really great guy ( I see where Garrette gets it from) he took us fishing on Saturday and crabbing on Sunday even though I broke a fishing pole. Every body gave me such a hard time about it but I blamed the boys for not listening that something was happening to the pole then.......SNAP it broke right in half!!

Come to find out it was a $10.00 pole Randy picked up at a garage sale.....  The boys limited out on fish by 10:00am and when Amy and I joined them in the afternoon there was no bites; luckily we brought lunch. Sunday was filled with lots a crabbing even though it was a little over cast. We had a bomb fire on the beach and cooked some fresh caught crab. With everyone that was in the group we had 7 crab tags and a minimum of 12 crab per tag.........and we LIMITED OUT :)



Some how we had beautiful weather in Coos Bay

A few of the 7 fish we brought home

After we got back from fishing and shared fish and crab with everyone in Sweet Home, we still had 3 huge fish. We froze some, smoked some, and even canned some. Garrette and Amy came over later that week and had a mini canning party. It was my first canning experience at the house and in my new caner from Deb last Christmas.

Now we have been working like crazy to get things ready for our cabinets. We've had about a 5 week window from ordering them to receiving them. With about 1 1/2 weeks left we seem to be on track surprisingly. We got the kitchen completely ready for the cabinets including, sheet rock, puddy, sanding, texturing and painting (may need one more coat). We also got all the can lights done with trim pieces in. Now a major project is underway..........the flooring. Before we started though there was some rotten boards in the front door we replaced so when we put in a new door we don't mess up the floor.

Sneaking a picture of my hard worker

Great I got caught....how does he always know?

major painting took place on Sunday. I even painted the ceilings again cause I thought they were too streaky

So nice :)

Some boxes of flooring moved in

And its started!!

We definitely have a long ways to go but its super exciting for us to finally be at this point of remodel. I'm so anxious to see the final product.

I also have another surprise for you all but you'll have to wait to the next post. Lets just say we needed some major man muscles and a lot of action packed sweaty grunting :-)

Cabinets on the way!!

Well we haven't been very busy with any of our projects. We've definitely been working a bunch but I haven't posted lately because I didn't feel like any of the pictures were very exciting :) We've been hanging pretty low around the house and still taking some time to relax and enjoy some of the last bit of nice weather. I woke up this morning and it felt like fall so we are trying to soak up every bit of sun shine left.

Colton and Jim did get all the can lights in the ceiling and the wiring for the bar lights is ready to go. I just need to pick out some lights to hook up but my decision making is not very good. As you can see we also got all the sheet rock in and colton got the taping and puddy up. Now the sucky parts start........sanding it all down in order to texture the walls. I'm not looking forward to that as it gets everything super dusty and just makes a huge mess. I think we are going to save that for next weekend though so I can have all the windows open.



Here is also a sneak peak of what are final kitchen will look like. We are ordering the cabinets tomorrow and they should be here in about 3 weeks!! So crazy that within the next month we will have a huge chunk of the wood floor in and the kitchen installed. I'm so excited to get new plates and all the fun kitchen gadgets. Colton says some of it I have to wait for wedding presents.....major bummer!

 These pictures really made us super excited and put a real perspective on everything coming together. I never thought I'd see the end in sight but I'm starting to see a little blurr where there just might be an end :)

Last weekend we also ventured down to "old" home sweet. I got dropped off at Libby's and colton headed to Adams for some much needed boy time. It was the first weekend of bow season and Adam was pretty "jones-ing" since this was his first time. I think its so cute how these boys get all twitter paited over a little elk or deer smell. I also got some major girl time in with the cutest girl in the world and much needed sister chatting. We ended the weekend with a bang with a small baby shower for Libby at the "Our Daily Bread" in Venita. The food is sooo good and if you haven't been you better make a reservation for there Sunday brunch. After some good food we stopped for pedicures and then back to realty of driving home.

I sure had fun hanging with my sisters and chatting about wedding stuff. I was telling Colton that it hasn't really set in that I'm suppose to be planning a wedding but after last weekend I'm getting really excited about it. Though the only things I've bought are bright orange napkins from target and bright magenta purple napkins from ikea my two best friends helped get me straightened out with some super good ideas. I think I might have the SPOT picked out and where to get the flowers. I might even have a photographer...I have to ask if she'll do it first.

Anyway enjoy the pics and the last bits of sun. Before we all know it will be parading in the pumpkin patches with our hats and scarvess :)