Labor Day Weekend

This last weekend was both really eventful and not at all. Mark and I managed to paint three rooms in just over 24 hours. This is more impressive when you understand that the two bedrooms we painted were each two colors since Mark is a little obsessed with having lots of bright colors around the house. Fortunately this is an obsession which I can appreciate. I particularly love how the happy oranges in the guest bedroom add so much light. I keep on having to check to make sure that we haven't left the light on in there because with the curtains open it's a super bright room right now. I'm also really happy that we let Benjamin pick out the colors for his bedroom. No surprise. He picked out green--his favorite color. And it actually looks pretty awesome. We even decided that we would rearrange his bedroom so that we could make it more of a little boy room instead of having a nursery feel to it. It made me happy when two nights in a row he said he was thankful for his different room that he painted. We actually let him help with painting both of the bedrooms with a little brush before we went over it with the roller. Now we just have to wait until a new home improvement budget (next month) so that we can add the crown molding and chair railing. Then I think all of the rooms will look totally awesome.

Sunday was a pretty laid back day. Since we recently acquired 20 expansions for Marvel Dice Masters (Dewayne's World limited us to ten a piece), we played that game for our Sunday game fun. I can't believe how quickly Benjamin is growing up. He may not get all of the card text, but he understands the basics of the rules (even "mana" type) and loves playing that game with us. Probably more impressive is the fact that we can enjoy playing Diablo III as an entire family with everyone pulling their weight. Also another activity for yesterday.

And today we enjoyed a visit from Mom and Dad White including grilled burgers and a game of Zombicide. We lost the game of course. Our second time playing a full game, and we still haven't beat it. I'm this close to going online to look up strategy guides. But then again, it is nice to have a cooperative game actually be this challenging. I'm pretty excited about actually beating it sometime.

After the visit, the three of us enjoyed a few hours in the lazy river at the Aquatic Center. Maybe it was just because it was so late in the day on a holiday, but it really wasn't that crowded. The more independent Benjamin becomes, the more we enjoy family time at the pool. Hopefully the swim lessons that we've signed him up for this month will facilitate that even further.

With a pretty great weekend behind us, I'm excited about the prospects of a great week to come.