My least favorite thing in the world

I realized something the other day: the weekends when I have time to post to the blog are not busy enough that I have anything good to post about. But the weekends when I have lots to post about are the weekends when I'm too exhausted at the end of the day to post anything!
The past two weekends have been the busy kind, and I'm finally taking a few minutes to tell you about them.
As I wrote about back in February, we've been working on finishing the garage. The past few weekends have been filled (at least in part) with my least favorite thing in the world- sanding drywall. It's dirty work- it gets sweaty inside the breathing mask, sticky inside the latex gloves, my arms, shoulders and neck ache terribly, and I end up with a fine dust all over me. Logan and I spent last Saturday slathering "mud" (joint compound) on the drywall seams. Then Logan and I sanded the walls and ceiling on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Logan put on a second coat of mud on Thursday and Friday. He took yesterday off while I was at work, and then the two of us sanded the final coat today before vacuuming up all of the dust and spraying the texturing on the walls. Now we're ready for me to paint tomorrow on my day off. And then- cabinets! We're very excited to finally have this project (almost) done, and really looking forward to the ample amount of extra storage space we'll have in the garage now. Here are some photos from last Saturday:Last Sunday we took the day off from garage work to head over to the beach for the afternoon. We stopped in Pescadero to get some bread from our favorite shop and then drove over to Bean Hollow Beach to walk around on the sand for a while. It was REALLY windy that afternoon. Clark had lots of fun chasing the sea foam around on the beach. (See video at the bottom of the posting.) Friday was my dad's 60th birthday, and we had two celebrations for him over the weekend. On Friday night we enjoyed a delicious dinner at Jasmine Thai restaurant and then dessert afterwards at our house. It was my dad's favorite: Strawberry Shortcake.
Clark seems to gravitate toward my dad's lap when they're together! Then this evening (Sunday) we went over to my parents' house to enjoy dinner and dessert there. In addition to my parents and sister, my grandmothers and two of my dad's friends joined us. Dinner was great, and Katie made a gorgeous pirate ship cake for my dad.
Cute Clark photo of the week: Here's Clark with his newest toy, Octopus:
(and in case you're wondering, this photo wasn't posed- he did this all by himself- what a ham!) That's all for this week- stay tuned for photos of the finished garage!