Pictures!

As promised, here are some renovation pics! We are loving going to the house on a daily basis to see the changes of the day, and then driving back home to our clean apartment to sleep! Sheesh, it's such a mess over there, but we wouldn't change a thing we're doing. We are SO happy we decided to remodel the kitchen (before we move in!) We did have our first little mix up yesterday, as the kitchen bar should be more of an island than a bar and the texture is a "troll" rather than a "monterrey" as we had requested. No fretting, Caleb got it all fixed this morning and we are rollin'! Here is just a glimpse (I think we have over 200 pics) of what this renovation has looked like thus far:

BEFORE:
A typical "galley" kitchen with an enclosed wet bar to the right.

This is the pic with all of the previous owners' stuff in it:

And the empty kitchen, looking from the laundry room area, through the kitchen, into the wet bar (that small doorway on the left at the end of the kitchen)

DEMOLITION AND SHEETROCKING: (yay! an open kitchen!)

Wet bar area:

Kitchen area, looking into laundry room (door opening at end)

Wetbar moved out, built back up, and sheetrocked:

CABINETS!
In boxes that filled our dining room...

To Julie's handy installation (haha, that drill was definitely just sitting there perfect to pick up for this pic)

Wet bar: it's functional!!!!!!

Kitchen cabinets! How pretty!

Up Next: Appliances! They delivered them yesterday and are filling our garage up :). Then the granite, tile, lights, and painting :). I think we're about 10 days out to having it complete!

My Dad and Jolie also came up this past weekend and helped us get our yard spruced up for spring! I hate to admit it, but I actually really enjoyed it! Caleb also is determined he will grow tomatoes and jalepenos after planting them, so we'll see. Man, we really are becoming "old" homewoners :). Here are a few after pics:

Hope you enjoyed my picture post :). Will attempt to add again BEFORE everything is completed, but we'll see!

Do you hear singing?!

Okay, so I'm lazy and I haven't downloaded the demolition pics onto the computer. I also have some very cute pics from Hayden's 4th birthday. So, those are to come.....I promise! I WILL get to it. (Sidenote: Demo went great. Everything is out, sheetrocking everything back up this week, and cabinet installation on Monday! ) Even though I'm not getting those pics posted, I just needed to blog...and vent...:) I used to love furniture shopping, just browsing through stores and dreaming of someday when I have a house and I get to buy furniture. Well, that day has come. It's GREAT to have a house. It's just so darn expensive! Our main goal, as far as furniture, is to get our bedroom furniture before we move in. We have our new king size mattress (W hotel brand, what?! what?!), but no bed! So, I was telling a friend at work today that I secretly wish I never would have seen this one bed. THE bed. The one that you look at and magically you hear angels singing around it. You hear them? Haha, maybe that's a little too much. Seriously though, if we had not seen the ONE bed that is of course, the most expensive bed in all of Weir's furniture, we would be so happy with all the others that are in our price range. But, no. We see the ones we can afford and compare them to magic dream bed and they just don't compare. So, my friends, here it is: my current nemesis (correct usage of that word? hmm...not so sure) that I am secretly (but not so secretly) in love with. Please just sit and stare for a while. Let me know if you will buy my baked goods so that I can fundraise to afford this bed :).

Demolition has begun!

Even though we haven't seen it, per our contractor, demolition on the kitchen started yesterday. I'll take some pics tonight! Yay!

Is running my "thing"?!

So, ultimate frisbee is obviously Caleb's "thing". Anytime that he has free time, he loves to play ultimate frisbee. Our NCAA bracket "bet" this year if he won was for me to go and watch him play ultimate frisbee. He LOVES it. Just see this look of absolute joy right before the game:

Now, I have yet to find my "thing" that I just always LOVE to do and can't get enough of. Don't get me wrong....there are a lot of things that I like to do on a regular basis, but I still don't have that "thing", that "passion" like ultimate is to Caleb. Like cooking is to Chelsea (like that, Chels?!). But....I feel like I'm getting a little closer. I never would have thought that I would really enjoy running. I like the idea of running. But, training for and completing this half marathon really pumped me up about running. I'm still on a "runners high" from Sunday. I had a blast. Granted, Shannon was a great running buddy and I don't know if it would have been near as fun (and I know I wouldn't have run near as fast!) without her. But, peeps, I'm thinking about doing another one. Soon. So, we'll see if this keeps up, but maybe, just maybe, I found my thing. Atleast for April of 2008. It may fizzle by May and then, my friends, I don't think it will count as my thing. And, I'll have to attempt new endeavors. But for now, I'm still excited about running and I'll share some pics from this weekend. Thank you, Caleb, for supporting me and being a faithful fan for my half marathon. You are a better person than me :). For those of you who have not heard the story, Caleb ran a half about 6 weeks into our dating (back in early 2000!) and I didn't know I was supposed to go watch. Granted, I was at a church retreat. But, I will never live down that he was there for me at mine, while I slept through his! Onto the pics...

This pic is at mile 8ish, we were so happy to see our fans!And here we are with our "finisher" medals! Woo hoo!