Kitchen DEMO!!!

We're in demo mode today!

Ripping up the floor..

Wood and nails everywhere...

My handsome workin' men!

Empty walls...

Pullin' down the old cabinets...

Pots and pans and plates and junk all over the living room...

Its crazy, but it will be so worth it!
Can't wait to post some after pictures!

Nesting

Nesting instinct refers to an instinct or urge in pregnant animals to prepare a home for the upcoming newborn(s). It is found in a variety of animals (both mammals and birds) including humans.^[1][2]

  Its seems to me that my nesting instinct has hit and is in full swing. I'm 24 weeks along and feeling good. I'm not too big to be miserable and I'm not sick. Heck I haven't even been exhausted for a while! I'm in the perfect mood to clean the closets, bathrooms, pantry... oh wait.. no! I'm in the perfect mood to decorate and rearrange things! I'm dying for the kitchen remodel to take off. We've schedule a day for tile to be laid but cabinets take a while to build.. and I just want to buy appliances and cute stuff and get going on the fun part.

To take my mind off of the kitchen.. I've been playing around on Pinterest (surprise, surprise) and have been pinning all kinds of things for Baby Sister and Allie's room.

A friend just introduced me to Sarah Jane and I've fallen in love with her Wee Wanders line. The quilt picture above is made with her fabric designs as well as the horse and deer prints. Sarah Jane studios is having a 20% sale this weekend and I'm dying to "buy all the things"! I would love to see Allie and Baby Sister's room become something like the board I've put together. Fun quotes, color, whimsy, lovely, bright and horses or course.

For now, I will go clean a bathroom and dust something!

Scrap Page Catch Up

My New Year's Resolution last year went really well! I only had a couple pages to catch up on at the beginning of this year before I was able to make our 2013 book. So of course this year I made the same resolution, but am totally slacking! I just can't get in the groove. I sit down to scrap and end up on Pinterest! Oh well.. here are some pages I'm trying to catch up on from January til now.

Back in January we celebrated Luke's birthday! He was so excited to open his presents. Crazy how he is just turning into a little man!

Also back in January, Johnny turned 18 months. He starting going to nursery, at church, and hated it! Now he loves it.. most days. But he does love playing outside and helping daddy work on stuff.

 

One morning in March, Mark came up to me while getting ready for school and said, "mom there is a steer head on my nose!" He scrunches his little nose up and sure enough the outline of a steer head shows up! I decided to scrap this memory and call it "Born a Cowboy" .. cows are in his DNA!

 

And in April we went to the fair! We love the fair! The food, the rides, the rodeo, the food.. oh wait I already said that! We had a blast!

 

These next two scrap pages are the more recent memories. ^^Mother's Day! Me and the kiddos :)^^

 

and Allie's Spring Violin recital. The recital was only two days ago, so 10 points for me for not procrastinating! Allie did great. She is loving violin and we plan to add the piano this Summer to switch things up.

Whew! Now I need to scrap Mark's birthday, May Day and lots of camping and canoeing trips!!

Kitchen Remodel

Last Summer, we started tackling the kitchen remodel. The first thing we did was knock out the old chimney and fill in the door that led to the adjoining bedroom.

Now there is no more door, chimney or any cupboards next to the fridge.
Leaving us with much more room around the table.

Now we're ready to tackle this half of the kitchen!
As well as adding a built in hutch to the corner area in the above photo^^

My Kitchen Pin Board on Pinterest has been my constant companion these many months! I've been pinning and pinning things that I love and dream about as well as things that are actually practical and could happen ;)

These are our final materials. We've decided on white cabinets with oil rubbed bronze knobs and pulls as well as faucet. The counter tops with be Giallo Ornamental granite and the flooring will be Natural Timber Cinnamon tile. It looks like just like wood! And a bead board back splash will finish it off.

Our cabinet guy is busy building and we're are finalizing details with the counter top and tile guys. I can't wait to start ripping those old cabinets out! I'm a little bit excited!