What a weekend!

Whew!!  What a weekend!  We made it...to functionality, that is.  I knew all along we wouldn't get to 'pretty' yet--there are still hours and hours of work to go, but we got function back in our kitchen so hooray for eating real dinner instead of pizza!

A HUGE thanks to:

Mom--for hours and hours of work

Dad--for hours and hours of work

Kasey--for hours and hours of work

Kyron--for hours and hours inhaling insulation while doing work

Jillisa--for hours and hours of kid help, and work

Chelsi--for hours and hours of letting Kasey come, and for a yummy dinner complete with the biggest burgers I've ever see, and for the good idea of support for my range decor.

Austin--for sharing Jilli and hours and hours of work

Rebecca and Mike--for watching my kiddos-ALL DAY-even my mama's boy Luke!

Jenny and Seth--for watching my kiddos as a surprise and thereby exponentially increasing our productivity and for letting us use your oven.

And a huge, huge, huge thank you to my sweet hubby.  You're brains, brawns, and patience make you the BEST project buddy I could ask for! Whoop!!

Before:

After our weekend--where we literally ripped apart our entire kitchen, then put it back together again... (man, I wish I had taken this picture from the other side of the room, to get the better comparison.  Just appease me--it was a lot of work! :)

I have been bitten by the genealogy bug

How neat is this? My pedigree chart, all fanned out and easy to see. I think I will be printing this off to hang on my wall. Awesome!


Genealogy Fan Chart

Kitchen Remodel...THIS WEEK!!

Folks...I am so. stinkin. excited.  Can't wait~!  My kitchen remodel, phase 1, starts on Thursday night.  Yeah for three day weekends!

Today I have taken everything out of the kitchen in prep for the mess that will ensue.  I'm going to scrub down the cabinets tomorrow and sand them, to prep for stain.  I ordered my crown molding and am headed to MacBeths tomorrow to buy the wood to build the new cabinets. I have a list of tools and supplies to purchase, and a list of tools and supplies to borrow.  Home Depot is going to see a lot of me this week. 

Yeah!

During some down time today when Luke (who got Hand Foot and Mouth this weekend, oh joy) was FINALLY sleeping, I designed these for my new space. (Thanks Kristen and Pinterest for letting me copy!)

Whoop!

(I like the colorful one better, but the yellow one matches better. I can't decide...it's sort of a nasty sick yellow. Obviously still needs some tweaking, but...the saying is so cute, I put it here anyway!)

Little Moments

I saw a life flight helicopter today...it gave me 'heart palpitations' like it always does. 

 And it quickly whisks me away to another time and place, another awful feeling and place, another awful night.  And it reminds me of my many blessings--like it always does.  And reminds me how lucky we are.  And how loved.  And how blessed.  

It reminds me that somebody, somewhere, is having the worse day of their life.  And I always say a little prayer for that family, for that mother, for that baby (cuz, no matter the age, we all are our mothers babies.)

Sure love my little Luken.  Sure glad to see life flight helicopters--even with the heart palpitations.  They remind me to hold my family a little bit closer.

Easter...

So, remember way back when, Easter?  I'm finally getting around to putting these pictures up. We had a great Easter--full of Church, Christ, and Candy.  (The three BEST C's!).  I made the kids' outfits this year. The boys turned out CUTE (but the suspenders were too big and I didn't have time to fix them), Katelyn's was not as cute, but...I'm learning. And it was cheap.  So it's all good! :)

(I don't know how much editing these pictures had, but I would bet not much. Check out his eyes--really, in real life, they are THAT pretty!)

If forgot my camera on Easter, so luckily for me my TALENTED photographer sister had her camera and snapped a few quick pictures for me.  Much better then I could have done myself.

  Check her out if you want a great photographer!

Yurting...

We 'Yurted' this weekend. It was awesome! So very, very awesome! (Once we figured out the furnace worked, that is. The first night was so very, very COLD!)  

There was eating,

 there was fishing,

 there was crafting,

 there was very little sleeping,

 there was BBQing,

 there was hiking.

 There was Yurting.

 And it was great!