Well its been awhile.....

To say the least its been awhile!! I am going to up load the photos finally tonight of the kitchen!!!
Sooo stay tuned!!

We have back splash!!!!!!

Quick update....Doesn't it look pretty!!!! So happy right now.

Its a little bit fuzzy as it is a cell phone picture.....(husband is at home with the tiler, I am at work)

Will follow up with more pictures tonight.

Christmas.....

Christmas is my favorite time of year, not for the present but for the time spent with family and friends oh and the decorations... I like to decorate for Christmas, I like what my house looks like after I finish. Makes it feel warmer and homier.

Please enjoy the few extra pictures of the living room all done up.

Its been awhile....and we're done! kinda

Sorry for the lack of posts...We've been busy trying to get everything finished. Almost there only the back splash is left. We had the family over on Sunday for an 'open house' to see the kitchen and give out the early Christmas present from my mother in law (trip to Mexico)

It was nice to show everyone what we had been working so hard on for almost 3 months. Now you get to see the finished results (sorta)

Take a look and let me know what you all think!!!!

Ode to a dishwasher......

Oh the glory days of a dishwasher!!! The husband hooked it up last night so i could do dishes. I am tired of washing them in the bathroom sink. Its fully hooked up except it drains into a bucket instead of the sink cause we don't have a sink yet. haha to funny last night having to empty a bucket in between cycles. But the dishes came out so clean and dry. No water pooling on top of the coffee cups.

Never thought I would miss my dishwasher so much.

On another note the counter tops might be installed on Friday instead of Saturday! Yeah!!!!

Plumber is still coming in Monday though :o( so fully functioning kitchen will still be operational on Monday night.

The tiler called to tell me he has been sick and unfortunately he will have to delay the back splash install till the second or third week of December. I am okay with this, i would much rather have him healthy than rush him to finish and still be sick.

New Rules...

So with a new kitchen comes new rules.... everyone is okay with said rules except for the DOG!!! Boy did he let us know....U see he has a habit of getting into the garbage so with the new cabinets we thought we would start locking him in the basement while we're not home. Now before everyone gets all on me about the basement its actually very nice...full size sofa, two windows and about 600 square feet to run around. I would think its not so bad...he sleeps most of the day anyways. Right???

Not so much....
I came home yesterday to this...... Seems he thought he could get out of the house through the window and the blinds were in his way. Can't move them so, he went through them. I have never seen anything so destructive. Thousands of pieces of plastic blinds. All I am thinking is great now he's gonna be sick....
So he gets punished ie. sent to his crate so he can reflect on what his done. hahahaha
nah he was just thinking about what he could do today....
This is what the husband came home to today.









Now the husband is mad and its his dog!!! What do we do??? He ate right through the door.
Does anyone have any ideas??? Does anyone know of someone with a farm???

So now he's doing what he does best.......

Well everything is coming to a end, almost on time and on budget. The husband and I sat down to total up all the receipts and we're not looking to bad. A few unexpected things (taking down the ceiling was a big one) caused the budget to jump a little but with the help of a few friends (and a free faucet) we're almost on track again. The husband has decided that he wants a plumber to come in and install the under mount sink and dishwasher. He's worried that when drilling into the granite he will crack it and that would cost more than a plumber to come fix. He also figures he's paying a plumber to come in why not get him to install the dishwasher and garbage disposal also. So by this weekend the counter tops will be installed and the plumber is coming in on Monday (to expensive on weekends) and the tiler should be back late Monday to tile the back splash....maybe even Sunday if I can talk him into it. More pictures to come.