Our son, Lukas, finished Grad School on June 1st, and was hired as a full-time English teacher on May 31st! On August 1st we moved him from Pullman, WA, where he had been a student at Washington State University (Go Cougs!), to his new home in Asotin, WA. Asotin is a tiny little Mayberry-type town in the southeast part of Washington State. He really lucked out with the home that he found to rent! It's on the Snake River, with fishing, hunting, and in the country, albeit, a dry part of the state. He's very happy, and with school started last week for him, he said he can't believe he's getting paid to do this job! We're so glad for him!
That's my boy!
His back patio
The Snake River is right there! I don't think your first home out of college is supposed to be quite this nice!!!
For 17 years now our kids have shown animals at the Skamania County Fair. (Prior to that, my husband and I did this fair years ago!) This year, one of our twins was the Round Robin Master Showman! Kari won a big belt buckle, that she's hardly taken off! (You'll notice it below in her back-to-school photo today). Kari was the beef grand champion, and the reserve champion for sheep, so she was eligible for the Round Robin, where she had to show her cow, her lamb, a horse, a meat goat, dairy goat, horse, and alpaca. She did really well, and we were so excited for her!
Kari (left) and twin sister, Kaitlyn (right)
Also at the fair this year, our son, Lukas, and his band "Train of Thought" were hired to be the fair entertainment! Take a listen here. It was a really good fair!
Once the fair was over, I decided it was time to move daughter Kaitlyn into Lukas' old bedroom. The twins have shared a bedroom since day one, and they were ready to have their own bedrooms. This dark green bedroom was painted (several coats!) of cream paint, and we just got it finished! Kaitlyn made the patchwork quilt on the bed, and she won grand champion on it and a nice trophy! She's proud of her work, and even more impressive is that this was her first quilt and she completed it in only 2 weeks!
We made this "headboard" out of an old screen door I had been hanging onto. I took off the old torn, rusty screen (you can bet I saved that for another project!) and replaced it with chicken wire, after a fresh coat of white paint.
Just purchased this nice oak commode cabinet at my favorite antique store!
We re-purposed some old drawers into shelves after painting them and adding some paper liner.
We're in the process of painting the outside of our house now. I also have plans to make a spare bedroom into a new craft room. So excited! I'll post pictures of the progress later.
Before school started, we made a trip to Deer Park, Washington to visit family and I got to see my 88 year old Grandma. She's doing pretty good!
Today was back-to-school day! Kari and Kaitlyn are now seniors, and the last of our children. Kind of sad, as it's been 21 years since I first sent one of my kids to school, and now it's almost over!
Primitive (early) fall blessings,
~Laurie
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