4 Kites Up

Ahhh, kite flying. So relaxing...... completely misleading idea when you are trying to get 4 kites in the air that are held by the 10 and under set.

We get the girls kites up fairly easily. Then I help Caleb get his up. Matt is working with Jackson on his..... I tell Caleb to hold on tight ..... a minute later his kite it flying away string dangling. I chase it down and bring it back only to hear Matt yell - Maggie, that's too close! Jackson go that way!
Jackson obeys so well - he goes far enough to tangle his kite in a tree..... I start to head over to help Matt untangle it when I hear more yelling. This time from  Hailey and Caleb who also got too close to one another and now their kites were wrapping around each other in midair. Once we got everything untangled we successfully had all the kites up and flying. We had been there all of 15 min by this point and Matt and I were a little frazzled and worn out :) The kids have been asking to go again - Matt and I might need a nap first......

Caleb was acting out some superhero moves for me while some of the others were winding in their kite strings.

Dining room table

We have been using a plastic folding table in our dining room since we moved out here last summer. It was much easier to get up into the apartment and we figured it would be useful for company later. I decided I wanted to build a table but I wanted it to have really chunky legs. I don't have a good way to make those myself so I thought we should just keep an eye out at the thrift store. After awhile we came across this table for $35 - the legs were great so we packed it up and brought it home. 

 I had only planned on reusing the legs but when we measured it - it was almost exactly the size I had planned on building so we decided to just refinish it and see how it fit. I sanded all the old varnish off the top and stained it darker. I also used some vinyl stencils to paint some arrows on it. I just wanted to add a little extra something :) I tend to do that a lot.

The legs got painted white. I added the word gather. Painted some small stripes around the edge where we realized it was not solid wood and sanding brought out some of the underlying partical board. Coated it with a food safe clear coat and here is where we ended up.  It works great for us for now. I think we might try to squeeze a little bigger table into our space later. We will just have to wait and see :) Now to hunt down some better chairs..........