Driving Around

Lately we've been spending quite a bit of time in the car driving around trying to figure out the perfect combination of house colors. In fact, last Saturday we were in Des Moines and the surrounding area from about 10 till 6pm. We started out by heading to check out the progress at our house - garage floor poured..check. Then we drove around checking out house colors - I think we are getting closer. All because we have to know what color windows we want as they have to order those soon. This is the one we are thinking it will look similar to...

Of course, some definite variations. Like not trimming out the garage. Darker stone. Darker accent tone. Darker trim color. But you get the idea.

Well. we were not even all the way to Adel when Shadd said "hey mom, look at my feet." We looked back and he was shoeless. Yep. And he remained that way the rest of the day. Check out the after...

After a long day of driving around, eating McDonalds in the car (b/c we couldn't go in), finishing touches on D's office (a project my mom and I took on while he was gone last week - forgot to take pics - will next time I'm in), touring a home our friend is finishing, and getting a car detailed at Mr. Car Clean - our kiddos were exhausted and so were we. We are trying to get used to running all your errands at once mentality again as we are 35 minutes away now. It is an adjustment especially with little  kiddos.