Just a pie

I know this is a silly post but I just made my first pie from scratch- crust and everything- and since no one is here to appreciate this accomplishment, I figured I'd post a picture:

Doesn't it look delicious? I'm bringing it to work tomorrow so hopefully it is. I followed the recipe Lyndsey posted on her blog. (Yes, I'm a copy cat).

Before and After

I've been very busy lately with various tasks around the house and I have the pictures to prove it.

PROJECT #1
First, my garden. After winter my garden looked like this, full of weeds:

Then, after lots of weeding I planted seeds and it looked like this: (see my blueberry plants?)

And it grew into this with beans, tomato and blueberry plants:See the nice blueberries? They are delicious. This sunflower randomly grew in the backyard:

PROJECT #2
Our garage has nice shelves on the sides but see where the fridge is? We don't use the fridge to keep things cool, just to store stuff on top of it.
So I had a great idea to build some more shelves. For $7.00 (the cost of the screws) and the use of some old wood we had I was able to build these with the help of my dad:

PROJECT #3
This ugly bathroom was the biggest of the 3 projects. Here are the before pictures:

So I had new floors put in:
And my mom helped; here she is doing a great job of not cursing at the leaking plumbing like I wanted to (thankfully a call to grandpa and he told us how to fix the leak):
And the finished project!
I'm so happy with how it turned out and appreciative of my mom's help so I could complete this project in 1 weekend!

Happy

Finally Ben's turn has come for R&R. We didn't do much since Ben just wanted to relax but we were able to go on a 6 mile hike to Opal Creek. It was a beautiful day and a great time to spend together and in the beauty Oregon has to offer.