"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley


"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Sunday, June 26, 2011

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!!

2 comments:

BJACCK said...

I like it! Are you enjoying your extra counter space?

Joy said...

Christine! I love it! I'm so happy for you guys and your house. You have done an amazing job fixing it up. How fun! Some day we hope to have a house...