Big 3-0

Well Kyle is officially old...we had a great party and he was very entertaining...enjoy the pictures and email or call for details :-) Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with the birthday boy.


Birthday Boy with all his gifts


Albania crew reunites...almost one year after the adventure



Dom, Nensi and Paul at the celebration




Jenny, Kyle, Tammie and George enjoying the festivities


Can you say TROUBLE??!?!!?!

Easter Weekend

So Nensi and I went to Woodland for Easter weekend. While there we went to the Britney Spears concert with my mom and sister. Check out the pictures :-) My sister was Britney from 'Baby one more Time', Nensi was Britney from 'Me against the Music', my mom was Britney from 'Womanizer' and I was Britney from 'Piece of Me.' We had so much fun! I'll put up some pictures from the rest of the weekend in a post later this week.

Functional

I came home last night to all my appliances in and working! I immediately popped a frozen lasagna in the the oven...cut me some slack, I don't have any food to make anything homemade right now. Possible for tonight :-) Check out the new "stuff". It is all Fridgedar...it's their silver line, so it has the stainless look but no finger print marks ... I think it looks fabulous

See if this works...

I've never done a video before...hope this works. If it does, it's the installers bringing in the large counterop slab, I thought it was very interesting.

Countertops!!

Surprise surprise to me, the counters are in and look beautiful. I didn't think they would be ready for another couple weeks. Check them out, we are so happy how they turned out. Contractor said we should have a functioning kitchen by the end of the week! I am so happy it's incredible...that means we can put our house back together :-) Can't wait to have everyone over to show it off...may need a couple extra weekends to whip our yard back into shape again, puppies have a way of sending tornadoes through nice yards...oh well, we'll get there. Enjoy the pictures.

See the first kiddos to make it on our new fridge? Aren't they just adorable...that's Dylan and Mia Hilton...See you guys in a few days.

Just for you Nensi!

Not too much changed since last post...oh yeah, we started filling up our new kitchen :-) Thank goodness, I can finally get into bed without climbing over half our kitchen...Two of our appliances get delivered today, fridge and stove, YAY!!!! Doesn't our pantry rock...more to come after the appliances, oh and then the counter tops :-)

start of the tile...

quick picture of what I came home to last night...they should be done placing and grouting when I get home today!!! Seal those bad boys tomorrow and then appliances Monday...then i'll be like this close (imagine me holding up a 'pinch' simple) to having a real grown up kitchen all my own. :-)

So....

what does everyone think? Looks like darn nice kitchen to me. I can't wait to put of things back in the kitchen...it will be so nice to be able to walk to my bed without stumbling over pots and pans. Oh and a picture of our faucet :-)

We have....

CABINETS!!! It actually looks like a kitchen now :-) Have to go buy the sink tonight and then the granite guys come out to measure...tile done by Friday!

Cabinets are HERE

Look at the fun the contractor is in for today. We were told one day to install the cabinets so when I come home tonight they should be up and installed, we shall see. I'll take pictures of them hung.

Time to get dirty!

Painting time this weekend. Thank goodness we had an out of town helper :-) We went with shining star, dancing light and holly green. Check out the pictures...more to come later. Cabinets get delivered tomorrow and installed on Wednesday. Dee and I picked out hardware at IKEA yesterday, so we are ready to go!

Spring Do!!!

So Devare was in town this weekend doing a little scouting for a potential career...while she was here we did a little chop chop of the hair. Locks of love is going to get two thick blonde ponytails. Feels good to have a new spring do :-)

Same Wall

ThenNow

It looks like a room now!!!

So the drywall guy came yesterday...it actually looks like a room now. We get to start painting this weekend!!! I'll post some pictures of that fun. My sister will be down here helping, hopefully we can use her artistic eye for some good colors and design. Wish us luck with the painting. Enjoy the pictures and we look forward to having everyone over so a wine kick off party :-) So much clean up now...after the painting we are just waiting for the cabinets to finish being built and then they get installed...more pictures to come

Kyle's an Uncle ... AGAIN!

New baby came on Tuesday! Don't know any details yet but that he's a healthy baby boy.

More Progress

So we now have the tankless water heater, the big old one is gone out of the house, finished!!! The washer and dryer have been moved out of the kitchen, so big in there without those two items. They made great progress on the electrical, I can see where all the outlets will be...a ton of them!!! And I'm pretty sure the plumbing is all done. Now we just need some drywall to go in and then we can take over with the painting! Always fun, trying to pick out the colors :-) I have about 4 rooms out of the 5 in the house to paint so it should be fun trying to squeeze that in a weekend...enjoy the pictures.

Construction Begins

Holy Moly can those guys work fast! Tried to take some pictures when I got home last night...didn't really capture the progress too well. But they finished the majority of the plumbing. Set up the area for the washer and dryer. Replaced the header to completely open up the wall. Today they should be installing the tankless water heater, finishing plumbing, replacing our electrical box and hopefully tiling for the washer and dryer. The doggies went to "daycare" and were so worn out from the fun with the other two dogs that Sequioa passed out immediately. Check out the pictures and check back regularly for updates.