June

It's mid-to-late June and this month, in a word has been HECTIC.  WHIRLWIND-ISH.  JAMPACKED.  Getting the picture?  Will's baseball season is in full swing.  The chickens have a coop that's not in the basement of our house (yah!).  Our den is undergoing a redecoration.  More on all of these things later.  Most importantly, we have a new cousin!  Baby boy cousin was born on June 1 (his birthday is a palindrome!) and he is the cherry on the crazy sundae that has been the last few months.  Baby boy cousin is healthy and delightful and both cousins think he's pretty cool.  Reina helped me babysit him last week and she was all in.  She sang songs and even helped me change diapers, which is something she wasn't interested in with the original Baby Cousin.  Will isn't interested in diaper duty but he can't keep his hands off of BBC's fuzzy blonde head.  More baby pictures and cousin pictures coming soon.

Will is playing Triple-A baseball this year which means that kids pitch, unlike last year's adventure with the pitching machines.  Will has a good coach and a nice bunch of kids on the team.  They are all adjusting to kid pitching and the games don't have as much hitting as they did last year but there are still exciting moments.  Will likes to play catcher which makes his mom nervous but he's really liking it and has stayed injury free so far.  More baseball pictures coming soon!

Ren, Rey, Dolly and Lolly (the chickens) are doing well and are now living in the Taj Mahal of chicken coops in the backyard.  Glenn designed and built the coop and it's a stronghold to keep chickens in and predators out.  Predators meaning coyotes, raccoons, hawks, Tootsie, Trigger and Coco.  Those last three have expressed a particular level of interest in the chickens.  I'm hoping the dogs will eventually find them boring and Coco doesn't usually get to mingle in the backyard unaccompanied but right now she can watch them from the window and apparently it's fascinating cat television.  Pictures of the coop and teenage chickens coming soon!

Over the winter my cousin Laura of Laura Rennie Interiors (http://laurarennieinteriors.com/blog?category=E-design) helped us look at some ideas for redecorating our den.  It's the most used room of our house but we hadn't painted or done much to make it fit our style since moving in more than 7 years ago.  Thanks to Laura's cool ideas, we have a new look for the den - one that's still very much a work in progress - if only sofa's fell from the sky.  Except that would be dangerous.  But we did paint it a new color last weekend and now we can work on new shelves and painting the trim until we embark on the great sofa buying spree of 2016.  Between chicken coops, room painting, gardening and other little projects, we are quite the DIY couple right now.  We are also a little overtired.

So that's June in a nutshell.  Pictures of all of these exciting events and new additions coming soon.