Post-Christmas, here are the kids and my parents working on the gingerbread houses that we finally manged to make!
Also, on Wednesday, Sacha and I celebrated 11 years since we first met! Our anniversary fell on Wednesday this year, which is our regular date night, and Apa helped us celebrate by coming over early and staying late! We had time to have a lovely dinner at Andina, browse the shelves at Powell's Books, and then attend Cavalia, which is being staged downtown. Apa and Mateo had gone to see it together on Christmas Eve and came home raving about it, so we gladly took the opportunity to see it for ourselves! It was designed by one of the founders of Cirque de Soleil and had lots of amazing acrobatics combined with horsemanship. We had a really good time and enjoyed having such a full evening together.
Our vacation is beginning to wind down, but we're still enjoying ourselves. We haven't made it up to the snow yet, but Sacha and the kids went to Zoo Lights last night in the rain! And, we undertook a little project yesterday: we painted our dining room and kitchen again! We had originally picked a mustard yellow color for it, as you can see above, because we had a nice yellow kitchen in our old house, but the mustard just ended up not working for us.
We asked Apa to pick a different color, as he is very good at such things, and he suggested a creamy antique white. A number of color samples later, we picked a nice cream color and then taped and painted yesterday. I did most of the painting and Sacha did most of the kid-wrangling, which worked well for both of us. We were pretty pleased with ourselves that we pulled off such a big project while the kids were awake! Having white walls is a big change for us, but we really like the way it turned out. It feels vastly more open and light in there. Yay!
While I was at the store getting the paint, I noticed that they had rugs on sale and made an impulse purchase of one for the dining room area. It's a long, narrow room that serves as both a dining room and a hangout area and we've been casually thinking about getting a rug, so now we have one. We're still trying it on for size, but we think we're going to keep it.
The photos came out yellowish, but you can still get the idea. You can also see evidence of our constant struggle against clutter!
1 comment:
Happy anniversary, you two! I thought Cavalia looked good, but haven't known anyone to go see it. Thanks for the review.
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