Back to a routine . . .

The end of spring break has come to a close and now Alvin is back to a heavy workload and has come home grouchy the last two days and it is only Wednesday. His mind is busy having to maintain two work places, working on a City of Chandler tile project, keeping up with his church job, and on top of that knowing he has to go thru the interview process to actually get the college job. It is defnitely sometime to worry about knowing some of the issues that are involved.

But, nevertheless we had a good two week break. Alvin said it was very relaxing for him. The days we spent in Seattle with Cody, Chelsea and kids were awesome. I do love going up there. We went to the Mill Avenue street fair. We haven't done that for a while and Alvin enjoyed visiting with some of his old ceramic buddies that he used to do the show with. The rest of the time we had appointments, went to a couple of movies, pizza with the kids, and the hike and helped Chelslea and Stephen paint the outside of their house. Alvin actually had only one week off from college teaching so the second week he put in many more long hours at the college. He will never get caught up! I feel so sorry for him with such a hectic schedule.

We are picking out outside house colors for the house. The painters are coming Monday. We have lived here 30 years and the stucco has never been painted but the wood has several times. We are going with a darker stucco color and the green a different hue. It is hard choosing the right color! We have purchased quite a few sample paint colors to hopefully get it right. We are also repainting the inside two accent walls that we had painted in the fall and after living with the awful brownish color for quite a few months will try for a better color.
Here are some pictures of painting Chelsea's house. Unfortunately we did not get a before and after picture.