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Happy Birthday Shay!!!

Posted by Brandy on July 23, 2009

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Happy Birthday to a Sister who really knows how to have some fun!!!

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Paris & P's 6th Birthday!

We just took our first holiday since moving - we spent a week in the Paris area with my family. Although Paris is only a 5 hour drive, we decided using public transportation would be more comfortable. We drove about 45 minutes to the Bellegarde station in France and took a high speed train to Paris. The kids were sooooo excited to ride on a train!

In preparing to move, we bought new convertible backpack/rolling bags for travel. We thought we would need the flexibility to carry our bags while pushing the twins in strollers and we were right! After arriving in Paris we took 2 different Metro lines to the Champs de Mar area where we were staying.

I used the website My Little Nomads to find hotel recommendations in Paris. Given there were 7 of us, I looked for an apartment to rent near the Eiffel Tower. I can say the Charles Floquet did not disappoint. It was awesome! Amazing views from the 7th floor penthouse suite and 4 bedrooms which was plenty of room for us all to have some space. A…

Chamonix & Grotte Mer de Glace (August 26, 2017)

With school just around the corner we wanted to take another day trip before things got too busy. The kid's school posted a recent excursion to Chamonix on their Instagram account and we couldn't wait to check it out. Chamonix, France is literally just across the lake from our house at the base of Mont Blanc, an easy 90 minute drive. After arriving we decided to have a picnic lunch in a shady spot outside the Mer de Glace train station.

We boarded the historic red train and headed for Montenvers. The train had a cog-wheel mechanism between the tracks to help get it up and down the mountain. The views were amazing, we'll have to come back when there's snow in the winter.

After you get off the train at Montenvers, there is a hotel, cafe and gift shop as well as several large observation decks. We headed straight for the Gondola which took you steeply down to the entry of the ice cave carved into the glacier.

Before you can enter the caves you have to go down 430 s…

If these walls could talk . . . (100th post!)

They'd probably be screaming right now. Kitchen Remodel '08 has officially begun.
First step: remove all the wainscotting from the walls.
Because we live in a ~90 year old house (plaster walls) removing wainscotting is no easy task. Sometimes the plaster came off as the wood was removed, other times we had to chistle it off with a hammer and 7-in-1 tool. We expected to find lathe around the entire kitchen, but the exterior walls had some sort of pressed fiber board with cement and plaster over it. Once the plaster came down the fiber board was very flimsy, so it had to go too. Will worked out a system where he simply cut sections of the wall out and them ripped it down while I vacuumed out the old insulation.
Always wear your PPE! We have quite a lot of work left. Every weekend between now and the end of October is booked with kitchen work or travel.
Last but not least, since it's my 100th post, I'm going to be doing a give-away. Leave a comment (with your name) in thi…

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