Check One More Thing Off My List

So I spent all day yesterday making the shelves for the pantry. I didn't have room in my garage to cut the big sheets of wood down so I had to do it in the hot sun on the driveway. Atleast there was a little breeze. I am so glad they are done. All I have to do is sand a little bit of the edges to make them smoother and to paint it which shouldn't take too long. Now that's one more thing to check off my list. Today I am going to work on putting in the doors. I guess I should atleast have a door on the bathroom since my mother-in-law is coming to visit this weekend. So all I have left is putting up and painting the doors, the moldings/baseboards and tiling the backsplash. I might price out how much it would cost to have someone do the backsplash because I just want this to be done. If it is not outrageous then I will just have them get it done. If it's a crazy price then I definately will be doing it myself. Below are some pictures of the shelves I built.

This Has Been Going On Too Long!

You know that you have been doing this kitchen remodel way too long when the guy at the home improvement store says, "Hey you cut your hair."

So here is the update. I got my refrigerator yesterday and I am so excited. My TV is coming tomorrow and they will install it on Friday. My goal for Saturday is to put the shelving into the pantry so I can start organizing things. Then it is onto the doors and baseboards for next week. Tiling the back splash and I'm done! So I am guessing about 2 weeks.
(Maybe less if I call in sick to work :) J/K)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

So Landon's favorite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I decided to make a quilt of the story for him. I do have to say that I got the idea from Michelle Brady's mom. She made a small quilt for Liam and I decided it would be a perfect gift for Landon. My quilt is totally different than Liam's but the concept is the same. I did applique for the pictures and hand embroidered all of the story. I took the actual book, copied and enlarged it to make my pattern. I cut out all of the individual pieces and sewed around it to make the applique. I then hand stitched the lettering because I liked the look of it rather than using my formal embroidery machine to put the letters on. When I was buying all of the different colored fabrics at JoAnn's they asked me what I was making. I told them and the girl said that she saw the dot fabric that is exactly like the book at a particular quilt shop. If you are not familiar with the book in the beginning there is a page full of colorful dots. The fabric was the actual dots from the book. I called the store and they said it was just sold out and they don't know when they will get some more. I was bummed but with my personality I don't take no for an answer. I then looked up all of the quilt shops in Sacramento and proceeded to call each one to see if anyone had it. After calling the 5th store I found it. They said that they just got it in that day and that it usually goes quick. I went and bought it right when I got off the phone. The whole back of the quilt is the dot fabric. It was a perfect find. Thanks JoAnn's Lady!

After much persuasion from family and friends I decided to enter it into the State Fair. I have to turn it in this Friday and if it is one of the winners then they have to keep it for a couple of months to display it in the State Fair. If not they just give it back to me at the end of July.
So here are some pictures. I think the cherry pie is my favorite.

4th of July

So we had a typical 4th of July except for working on the kitchen. In the morning we went to the pancake breakfast at the church. It was nice because we got to see some people that we haven't seen for a while. Oh how I miss our old ward. We had a lot of good friends there and it was so fun. After the breakfast we walked down to watch the parade. Nothing much to it. It was a typical parade but we were laughing saying it seems more like an advertisement parade then a celebration parade. We ended up leaving part way through because we were sitting in the sun and all the kids were getting too hot and grumpy.
After the parade Adam and Landon went swimming at grandma's house while I went back and finished putting the front door in. We also painted some of the baseboards so I could put them in the pantry. The next priority for me is to make the shelves in the pantry. I couldn't do that until the baseboards were in there because it would be awfully hard to reach under the shelves to put them in. Once the shelves are in I can organize the kitchen and just do the rest of the projects here and there. So what is still on my list?...paint and put in the doors, paint and put in the molding for around the doors, paint and put in the baseboards, finish installing the speakers, cover the seats on the kitchen table, make the curtains, and tile the backsplash. Then I am completely done. We are getting our new couch on Monday, our refrigerator on Tuesday and our TV installed on Friday. My dad came over on the 4th and finished installing my faucet, garbage disposal and dishwasher. Thanks Dad! Now we can actually make food in the kitchen and clean the dishes. YES! I thought this day would never come, a functioning kitchen. Check out my little model with our new dishwasher.

So What Do You Think?

I desperately needed my haircut. I have been so busy with the kitchen remodel that I haven't had time to go. I talked to Michelle Wright on Sunday and she said I could come to her house and she would cut it for me. I brought a picture of what I wanted so that she would have an idea. She cut it but her flatiron broke so she said she couldn't style it. My hair gets wavy, especially if I don't blow dry it. Once I left it started drying more and puffing out. I then used my flatiron and it did tame it a little. It still angled out at the bottom like a triangle. I wanted it to round more against my face. I called Michelle and asked her if there is anything I need to do to get it to round more. She said she would come to my house and see if it just needed to be styled a certain way or if she needed to cut off a little more. She did ended up thinning it out towards the bottom so it wasn't a puff ball. It turned out exactly what I wanted. Thanks Michelle! That was so nice of her to come to my house so I didn't have to lug the kids over to her house. The picture that I showed her was Heidi Klum's haircut. Now Adam calls me Heidi. I laugh and say "I wish." I am far away from that body.....but maybe someday right? I have to shoot for something.

I Am So Embarrased!

Today the electricity was being worked on so Adam took the kids over to grandma's house while I got my haircut. Addison was still asleep so I relieved Adam of the kids so he could go to work. I was sitting in my parents computer room talking to Melanie and Landon was in the living room playing. We walked out and noticed Landon was gone. The back door was open so I thought that he just went into the backyard to play on the swings. I went to go check on him and suddenly there was a knock on the front door. It was Charles the little boy who lives across the street with his nanny Amy and her daughter Abby (I am friends with Amy and we go over there to play alot) She said, "I have come to bring back Landon" I looked down and he was completely NAKED! I then found his clothes in the backyard. I guess he went back there took off his clothes and then ran across the street to see if Charles can play. Oh Boys!

Almost Done!

I know I have been saying that for a while but when you work full time and have two kids it takes longer to get things done. The flooring got put in and it only took the guy a day. He was really good and a hard worker. My next door neighbor is a furniture refinisher so he restained my parents old table for me. I just got it back and will have to cover the seats with my red paisley fabric. I painted an accent wall red and started painting paisleys on it. I put my new front door in and it looks great. I did have a casualty though. I whacked my finger with the hammer. It hurt so bad. It is that kind of hurt where you just go, "ahhhh" and it is throbbing. It is so swollen now and it as purple as a grape. It seriously looks like someone just took a purple marker and colored my finger. Next step for me is to put the interior doors in. I am holding off on the pictures because I would like to show the reveal once everything is done. You will have to wait in anticipation. (unless you are the ones that stop by and see it in person)