Kitchen Project 7-10

Step 7: The dining room and guest room have been relieved of their duties as kitchen storage. I did some major rearranging and we are still going to the wrong cabinets and drawers to get things out. We'll get used to it soon enough.

 Step 8: Cabinets are painted!

Step 9 and 10: New light installed under the sink and cabinets are UP.  My kitchen is now usable!!

So.... BEFORE

And...AFTER

Thanks to my more than amazing husband who deals with working all week and then coming home to get things done in the kitchen.  He really has worked hard. I appreciate and love you Brendan for all of your hard work and for making me so happy! Muah!!

Next stop: Counters.  Ohhhh brudder! This one may take a while..haha

My little star :)

Dillon’s KALEIGH CAULDER watches as a Darlington player loses the handle on a throw to third base during a rundown play during a game in the Dixie Angels Sub-District tournament in Dillon on Tuesday. Caulder eluded the tag and later scored one of her two runs in the game. (Photo by Chris Clark/The Dillon Herald)

 

 

 

 

She is always in the newspaper.  She’s sort of a big deal.  :)  Let me know if you’d like an autograph from this superstar..I’ve got the hookup being one of  her all time biggest fans.

Day 3 Nassua, Bahamas

We arrived at Nassua, Bahamas on Friday morning. We got off of the ship and had an awesome view of Atlantis.

Look how blue and clear that water is

Unfortunately, it will be a week or so before Day 4 will be available and that's only IF my pictures turn out. I had to send those pictures off...those pictures were not taken with our digital camera.

Day 2- Heading to the Bahamas!

Day 2 of our Cruise- Day at Sea. Somehow I convinced Brendan to lay out with me...

Which resulted in him getting sunburned....as usual.  I sure hope our children have my skin so I can take them to the beach and not have to worry about them frying in the sun.  :)  He is letting the aloe dry. I was smart and figured he'd burn the first day so I made sure to grab the aloe.

 While on the ship, storms were all around us at sea. It was pretty crazy to see the storm beside us knowing that is was miles and miles away and seeing where it was raining! I'm a weather fanatic so of course I thought it was way cool.

 

We took advantage of the super fun slide. That was the deal breaker for Brendan.  Me -let's lay out, we can go on the slide!! Brendan- Okay!

The Captain's Dinner.  It was hard work getting Brendan into a tie.  ;)  I am telling you! One of these days, that man is going to give me some beautiful children. I have SUCH a HOTTT husband.  :)

Our First Anniversary

What a way to celebrate our 1 year anniversary!! No better way that cruising the Atlantic!

Wow! A year has passed so quickly! I seriously cannot believe that it has been a year since we've said "I do"  Although this has been a hard year, I know that I am blessed with an amazing husband and couldn't have survived it without the love and patience from Brendan. 

Brendan,

More and more each day, I love you.  Just when I think I'm completely full and couldn't love you anymore, I overflow just a little more.  I am so grateful that I continously fall deeper in love with you. I love spending every day with you and I love it when you call me "wife". Being your wife has been the best title I've had thus far!  :) Thank you for simply being the incredible person that you are! Elephant Shoes!!

Our Wedding Cake! We were really hoping that it would taste as good as it did a year ago!!

And it did actually taste pretty good! See our champagne glasses of MILK?  :)

Milk Mustaches..Brendan just couldn't get his to stay.

This year has been an incredible year as his wife and he as my husband.  I am so excited for the many more anniversaries to celebrate with each other.

((Cruise Pics to follow....eventually...hopefully soon...maybe even today....keyword here is maybe))

Kitchen Project Step 3 -6

I sure hope I can keep track of these steps that I am numbering to our kitchen project. We're behind on our project so we really kicked it in gear during this past weekend.  Saturday, we got up and spent the entire day sanding the remaining kitchen, priming ALL cabinets and the kitchen, and of course emptying out our kitchen.  Oh........................My.....................Gah.......................  We started a little after 12 and I think ended around 1 am.  The kitchen is a complete and total disaster area.  The fridge and range are pulled out. It is totally out of use.  The guest room and dining room are full of our kitchen items. Seriously, who knew that much stuff was in a kitchen?! I literally had primer paint ALL over me.  Brendan had like none!  I soaked myself in hot water hoping that it would come off and I thought for sure I had gotten most of it off until I got up the next morning and noticed it still on the back of my legs and all on my forearm.  Sunday was all Brendan.  Unfortunately, I had to spend the day with icepacks on my back. All of the work from the day before rendered me helpless for the next day's work. I am so sore. It hurts to even get up.  So I spent Sunday making sure I could do whatever I could off of our to do list for the Bahamas.

Last Post before we're headed off to celebrate 1 year of Marriage!

My dining room errr slash kitchen. Let me explain the balloons. Brendan, as you know, wears hats ALL OF THE TIME.  So naturally, they get dirty and he has to wash them.  You can't really iron a hat so he blows up balloons and the hats dry while being on the balloon- "fake head".  I know that you're thinking, wow, that's pretty clever. haha That's my Brendan for ya!

Our guest room errrrrrr slash kitchen

Primed!

Just little example of how much paint I had on me. I am still scraping, scratching, scrubbing it off of me.

Just a little on the trashy side

This past weekend, we were slack as all gets out of carrying on with our kitchen project.  This weekend maybe the priming will get done.  But back to as to why we didn't get anything accomplished this past weekend.  Brendan, Justin, and Keith all have birthdays near each other.   Brendan and Justin are in May and Keith is in June.  So they had a joint Birthday party in which the theme was "White Trash".  Go figure!  :) I didn't realize it was a themed party until the day before and do you know what?  I didn't have to buy anything for the party.  I mean wardrobe wise. I mean, Hello?!  Where am I from?  But in the words of good ole' Dolly Parton "It's expensive to look this trashy".   :)  Around here trashy = classy.  I'm kidding of course!!! I swear, Brendan put on his attire for the party and I said "OMG, you look like my Papa"  It's not at all that my Papa is trashy.  We're just country folk and that often gets portrayed as being redneck or white trash.  Brendan has called me a redneck plenty of times but us true southern folk know the real definition of a redneck.  ( B is kidding when he calls me that by the way...I'd tan his hiney otherwise) 

Let me explain B's hat.  I am a USC alumni so naturally we are Carolina fans NOT Clemson fans.  Clemson is an agriculture school, is really in the middle of no where, and has a bunch of country students so Brendan thought it would be funny to wear this as his trashy outfit.

Brendan made me this awesome tattoo. I'm thinking about getting it permanent.  NOT.  :)  He did do a great job.