Snow Day

Our whole family enjoyed a snow day on Friday! Dave was home too...he was going to go to Erie to work, but left on Saturday because of the storm. Dave took Kiera out to play while I organized the kitchen.

Moving into the Kitchen

We're glad to be moving from our makeshift
kitchen in the laundry room......to the real thing upstairs. Dave hooked up the plumbing today and we made our first dinner in the new kitchen. Everything is put away though I'm sure we'll be organizing, adding and rearranging for some time to come. I'll be sure to add pictures of the new additions (backsplash, hardware, etc.) as we get them!

Pizza

Kiera made homemade pizza dough with Ros this week.
She sent some home with Kiera and we baked it up today. Yum.
Love these chubby hands!

Countertops

Call us crazy, but we opted for granite and marble countertops
over our previous white and gold fleck ones!

The kitchen is still far from complete; we still need...to fix the soffit above the fridge, a back splash, cabinet hardware, glass for the cabinets, kitchen rugs, kitchen towels and a spot to hang them, a painted chalkboard, a spot for our keys, a final coat of paint on the walls, a new plant or two, to remove the old outlets, a new shade for the pendant light (perhaps purple?), we need to get Momma Kette's coffee house painting framed, Dave needs to hook up the oven and garbage disposal, and Dave needs to rehang the t.v. (his pride and joy!) I'll be sure to post more pictures as more of the details fall into place!

Candy Buttons

Kiera was super excited to get a little gift from Auntie Em.

She LOVES her candy buttons!

Sneak...

a peek

at

these

two

silly

siblings!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope your day was sweet!

Kitchen Peninsula

Our new kitchen peninsula ...

...and our little girl who likes to get silly in front of the camera.

Cabinets

Someone pinch me...I didn't think this day would ever come...new cabinets! No more plywood cabinets, no more having to wash the pans from the bottom cupboards before I use them and no more using a screwdriver/knife/whatever-is-handy to open the drawers with the low hardware that we had to remove for Kiera's sake. There is a lot more to do...hardware, caulking, and correcting a few boo-boos, but here are some pics!

My handsome model

Now we just need to hurry up and get the counter tops! Anyone know of an overnight granite fabricator/installer? And I'm just realizing that I didn't take any pics of the peninsula or the desk...more later, off to school I go!

Flooring

Dave and Mark are hard at work on the kitchen floor (good thing since the cabinets come tomorrow!) To quote McDonald's..."I'm LOVIN' it!"

Dave's famous "kneeling/criss-cross/sitting" pose

The picture doesn't really do this justice! The floor is done under the fridge, it's just on a towel and plywood to keep from scratching the floor. The perimeter around the back and right wall are where the cabinets will be, hence no bamboo flooring, only plywood (and tool storage for the time being).

Ty in the News

The Green paper did a little article on Tyler...check it out!

The truck brought...

...our new kitchen floor!

Hello new floor!

Good Riddance Old Floor!Don't you agree that we terribly need a new floor? There's nothing wrong with it physically...but it's ALL wrong aesthetically!

Kiera got a popcorn ball in her stocking and I finally let her eat it today...only because she spotted it as we were taking everything out of the cupboards (getting ready for cupboard demolition in the morning)

She kept calling her popcorn ball her "cotton ball!" It was darn cute, that I didn't correct her! Here she is showing of her sticky hands...

Can you guess...

...what this big truck delivered us today?

Signing Day

Until Tyler came along, I had never heard about "Signing Day" (a day were high school athletes "sign" commitment letters to colleges). Today was Ty's big day for college...he "signed" with Lake Erie College to play football. We are so proud and excited for Ty!!! Here are a few pics from today...

Don't you just love the shirt?

These next two shots are my faves...