The Kitchen Update

Here it is, Before and the afters. We have a little bit of finish work, the ceiling needs painted, we need to replace some bead board on the far wall and some other minor details but, here it is for the most part. The second coat made it look a lot better, darker, less blood red. We had a guy friend come over to help Grant with something when we had just part of the first coat on and he said, "What did you do, kill someone and use him to paint?" Yeah, it did look like that. FYI, never ever paint red over a white wall, it'll take 5 coats! Use a grey primer first- Thank you Home Depot paint guy!!

Kitchen Update

This is the Before, to remind you how wonderful it looked before we started changing things :)

Now this is that same counter (to the right of the sink) We ended up with a different counter top than I previously posted but that is the red. I would show a picture of the whole kitchen but I haven't painted the whole thing, just around the counter top and under the cupboards. Plus, we still have to finish the cabinets and counter top for the other side, hopefully this week. But, it is so much better than before and the red is a little crazy, but I am getting used to it. Let me know what you think.

Some pictures of our mess while we try and finish the kitchen, it has been this way for 2 weeks and will continue this way for who knows how long :)

And, Daddy's little helper! :) He helped me too, with 2 screw drivers getting off a nut under the sink :) We even taught him "philips" and "flat head" :)

Recycling

I am a fan of recycling, not necessarily because it will save our planet or stop the overcrowding of landfills or save marine life or fowl everywhere or because I can't stand to have more trees cut down than should be. Those and many more are great reasons to recycle, but, my favorite reason is because I only have to pay for a 32 gallon trash cart instead of a 94 gallon! And, we don't even fill us the 32 gallon in a week, I need to look into a smaller one maybe, save even more money!

New Ward, New Callings

We have 1 o'clock church now so this is the Sunday morning ritual, get the kids all ready for church, Dad reads in his most boring voice and they all fall asleep! I am really grateful we bought a house because now we are stuck in a ward, no more moving and having to make new friends every year! My goal used to be to stay in a ward long enough to change callings, we did that in Boise, now my new goal is to stay long enough that I speak more than that first time get-to-know-you talk. So, as for our new callings, I'll let you guess. Here are some hints: We are together and we don't teach every Sunday. I'll tell you at the end of the post, you really have to guess!

These are our new living room curtains! Everything we own is brown so I decided to keep it that way and just add some color in my accessories, pillows, pictures etc. Grant loves brown.

Grant's family came up 2 weekend's ago to help us with the house, they moved these kitchen cupboards, I hope you can tell the difference from before and after. Above is before, fridge in the middle of a beautiful wall ready for cabinets, below is the after, scooched to one side ready for a beautiful new counter-top (maybe next month)

We are going to paint the top half of the walls Behr color California Poppy and hopefully, it's not set in stone, put in some make shift cupboards with a counter top from Home Depot: Jeweled Corral. I love owning my own home!

Okay, I got called as nursery leader and Grant as my assistant. There are already 2 other sisters in there with 15 active children, hence the 4 leaders. Anyway, we went in there on Sunday and let me tell you that nursery is the best calling ever! We played for the 1st hour, had music time, snack time, lesson time and activity time and then played for the last 10 minutes. The lessons are like 2 minutes long and as long as you have some pictures and talk all excited the ones who are going to pay attention do and that is the hardest part. At first I was bummed, felt like I was being exiled but then I remembered that I still have all my friends from 1st ward so I don't really need to make that many friends in this ward too quickly and what a better place to be exiled to, snacks and play time!!! (plus, for the first time in a while, Grant and I get to spend more than sacrament meeting together!)