Poor Kitchen Floor

We have uncovered most of the kitchen floor, so far so good. There are scratches and paint splatters and about a million little staples, but nothing is going to scare us away from bringing these beauties back to life. Who ever covered these floors really must have hated them, they really took some aggression out with the staple gun. There is an unnecessary amount of staples in each piece of plywood. Just a little TLC and these babies will be as good as new!

Labor Day Weekend

We had a great time this past weekend. Sergio experienced his first camping trip. Despite the rain we had fun floating, camping, roasting marshmallows, and spending time with family.

Exciting Discovery!

So I was feeling brave today and thought I would pull up the kitchen floor. We had an oak colored laminate. Under the laminate is a beautiful linoleum, and under the linoleum is some sort of particle board that breaks into a million little pieces when you try to pull it up. THEN under that, HARDWOOD FLOORS!!! Now I only have a little bit of it exposed and I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it goes through out the kitchen. It will need refinishing but I prefer the wood over cold tile, so I'm willing to do what ever it takes.



This is the gorgeous linoleum.....

The Time Has Come

I have wanted to paint our kitchen cabinets white since the day we moved in. We have been here for close to two years now and we are a step closer. We have purchased a paint sprayer, drawer pulls, and floor tile. I think I have narrowed it down to one or two counter top colors. So we still have to get the tile for the back splash, they will be white 3x6 subway tile.


This is what we have so far. The lighting is terrible but you can kind of see the direction I am going. I think these colors will look really good with white cabinets. I found these awesome drawer pulls on clearance at potterybarn.com $9.99 for six of them!

Fun, Fabulous Florida

I have been a bad blogger. I said I was going to blog everyday from Florida, and that didn't happen. I guess I was just having too much fun! We had such a great time, we spent as much time as possible on the beach. We were so lucky to be able to visit with our wonderful and welcoming family. While we were there we went tubing, some of us learned how to wake board and best of all we met baby Brooke. The next day we went to Disney World and after that we just hung out on the beach the rest of our time there.


This is the pretty canal we stayed on, and where we saw manatees!


Sergio didn't do so well on the wake board, but he tried.



This is me showing him how it's done ; )



Nicki making it look easy!



This is me taking Grandma for a ride on the wave runner


I have nothing to say about this......


Mike, Linda, and Brooke


What a cute little family!


This is right before Lucy went pee pee on Daddy's lap on It's A Small World....


The Beach Babe....

Fun In Florida

Not much to blog about.....

Well there isn't much to blog about these days. I don't have any projects going on right now being that we are trying to save some extra money for our upcoming Florida trip. So I thought I would post some pictures of Roscoe who is about 7 1/2 months old now. We have had him for almost 4 months now and he just keeps growing. Last time we weighed him he was about 43 lbs. He still has his puppy face though, I don't think that will ever go away.


This first picture is the day we picked him up:





Getting a little bigger...





This is his first day of puppy school, as you can see he is getting a little harder to hold...




Still trying to fit on Dad's lap.....



He likes the mud, but he doesn't realize that a bath will follow shortly after...





These last two pictures were taken today. In the first one he is watching Sergio play a tennis video game.