{Debie Gras}

My Mom and Aunt Debbie came to visit! It was a whirlwind of a visit; they were here for eight short days. We have so much fun together; we jam packed those few days with some wonderful memories. Here are a few highlights from their trip.  

Mikie and I worked hard to make the house presentable before they arrived. We finished our mudroom bench and coat hanger. (Below)

Here is Guest room #1, you don't want to see #2 becasue it makes us look like major hoarders!

Here is Mom and Aunt Debs at The Donner Museum. They are standing in front of a statue that shows how tall the snow was when the Donner party was stranded here. This is actually the site where they camped out, we are right outside of Tahoe.

Here they are in front of Donner Lake.

We finally made it to Lake Tahoe!

 

Here is the beginning of out Napa/ Sonoma trip. We went to Castella Di Amorosa .  We went on a tour of the Castel that ended with wine tasting. The tour was awesome, I highly recommend it! The wine...... not so great.

We had to stop as Korbel Winery. Apparently Korbel is 'our' family's favorite champagne.... (news to me) Korbel has both wine and champagne tasting. They also have a small gourmet restaurant where we had some lunch.

 Here we are at Bella Winery and Wine Cave. This is one of our favorite winery's in Healdsburg. My mom is actually a member of their wine club.

Here is aunt Debbie standing out form of the cave.

Every day in Sonoma, we had seriously the best picnic lunches! Gourmet cheese, meats, bread, and wine! 

They wanted to see the Pacific Ocean, so we went to Bodega Bay.  The coast was 15 degrees colder then the valley.

 We found out the house where the horror movie "The Birds"  was filmed is in Bodega Bay.

We crammed so much into their trip. From the mountains of Tahoe to Napa Valley, all the way to the Pacific Coast. I hope they had fun! I know i did!

{the going on}

Things are happening in the Kane House. I have taken some really great pictures on my 'nice camera' but I have not had time to upload. I am hoping to get some time in the next week; I just want to be consistent with this whole blog thing.  Here are some quick pictures from my phone. I have been busy painting and redecorating. My mom and Aunt Debbie are coming tomorrow; I can’t wait to share our fun stories with you guys!

This guys can really get into the whole decorating thing, but he would never admit it! He is actually responsible for finding our new lamps (in the picture above).

We have needed Kitchen chairs for about a year now, we have been using our outdoor furniture. Finally, I decided to buy these unfinished chairs for $25 a chair from Ikea. We painting them 'wet coral' (Valspar). I found this frame in our shed, I painting it the same blue as the console table I posted in a previous post. These colors are fun for now; I know I will probably get sick of them at some point but that’s what paint is for!

Here it is all together! In the back ground you can see the console table with our new lamps as well as our current projects. Mikie is working on a 'mudroom style' bench and we bought two small dressers to refinish. I have so many projects going on right now; remind me not to start any more until these are finished!