Billy Joel

What an amazing concert!  Scott and I had bought tickets to see Billy Joel wayyy back in February.  I'm so happy we did and the concert was great!  We had nose bleed seats and that was fine (until the end when they were rocking).

We got downtown a little early.  The wonderful protesters seemed to let up a bit so we could enjoy the concert with issue.  We arrived at Paddy O's and met up with Zipf and Shane for a drink.  I even ran into an old co-worker from MAC.  After a quick drink were off to the top of Busch Stadium to grab dinner and our seats.

Billy, because we are on a first name basis, is a great preformer.  He gave the audience choices of 2 songs for him to play.  He commented on past preformances in STL and even the heat and crazy amounts of bugs all around.

He had the entire stadium rocking.  He ended with "Piano Man" before his 4 song encore.  The entire stadium was on their feet dancing for the last 30 minutes of the show.  Scott and I had a great night out.

Making the new house ours

Step 1 in doing so, paint!  We have been talking about painting our family room and kitchen since we moved it.  We have chocolate brown couch, with brown rug and brown chair.  And the room was painted chcoclate brown.  It needed to be lightened up, big time.  We narrowed down our paint choices to 3, Mega Greige, Anew Gray and Agreeable Gray, all Sherwin Williams.  The middle of the road Anew Gray won!

We spent the week before paint day tapping and getting supplies.  I found a little handy square brush that took the stress out of the cutting.  Scott was able to paint all trim areas super fast and not get it on the ceiling or door frames.  

One long 12 hours on a Saturday and we have a brand new kitchen and family room.  Of course now, the playroom, painted an amazing peach color, is driving me crazy...it's moved up the honey do list rather fast.

Apple Picking 2017

We picked the best day for apple picking.  The weather looked like it was about to rain (and it did while we were loading the car) and that kept people away.  The boys loved the tractor ride to and from the orchards.  They were so into picking as much as they could and keeping their own bags.  

Bennett would find an apple, pick it, take a bite and then put it in his bag.  Scott spent some time sorting out the quality control apples.  Gabriel was great at picking the perfect apple.  He had to have his own bag and made this year.  He picked a ton of apples, but didn't taste as many.  This was Thomas' first year apple picking.  He did great just hanging out and sucking on any apple we gave him.  Towards the end it was hard for me to get an apple away from him.

This annual tradition is truly one of my favorites from my childhood and I love that Scott and I continue it with the boys.

Great Grizzlies

The Great Grizzley exhibit finally opened at the zoo.  And a special treat for members was to have a viewing the day before it officially opened.  Bennett, Thomas and I dropped Gabriel off at school and headed to the zoo as fast as we could.  It was crowded with members and lot of media.  And even though it ws crowded, we still got an up close viewing of the newest Zoo animals.  Bennett was pretty excited and is now bear obsessed.  

 We even went and hung out with the polar bear (Kali) who put on a great show for us.  We had a front row view of him jumping in the water and swimming around.  I'm pretty sure I was more impressed than Bennett.

No trip to the zoo is not complete without checking out the hippos and elephants.  We were even lucky enough to see the new baby blank Rhino nuring from his mom.  All in all, a great trip to the zoo.  We sure did miss Gabriel and Daddy.

10 Months

Mr. T has started to really develop his personality.  He is a ham.  He is one fast crawler these days.  He is doing everything he can to catch up to his brothers.  He loves to stand at the window and watch his brothers play outside or watch Daddy cut the grass.  He is still very easy going, he really only fusses when a tooth is bothering him.  We are still working on routine and sleeping better.  But look at that face!  One happy little fella!

New to us table

We have had a table that was once Scott's parents and used as a kitchen table at our old house.  We even put it in the kitchen of our new house.  We decided that it was time for a face lift.  It was a color that didn't go with the rest of our house.  It needed a little TLC to get some scratches out and an updated color.  Scott was able to sand it down, paint and stain it all in one weekend.

I think the table turned out pretty awesome!  I love how the colors stand out in our kitchen.

Another project checked off on Scott's Honey Do List.