Monday, August 31, 2015

Kitchen Remodel

We remodeled our kitchen this past August and September. It was a big job that took about 6 weeks to finish but it was worth it! We have a small kitchen and so we needed more storage and counter space. So we decided to close off the big window that's behind the cabinet in this pic so we could add more cabinets and a countertop...

We did all the demo ourselves. We took down the old cabinets (and sold them) and removed all the tile from the wall and floor...

Here's the floor with new cement board, all ready for new tile (which we did ourselves)...

floor tiles done, and the window has been closed off too...

We used IKEA for the cabinets and countertops. Here's the cabinets getting installed (we hired someone to do this)...

We also did the penny tile on the wall ourselves too, or I should say I did most of it while Adam was at work!

Penny tile going up, this kitchen finally feels like it's coming together!

So that's all the pics I have for now. The kitchen is 99% done. I still have some minor paint touch-ups and decorations to finalize so I hope to have full reveal pics up soon. Stay tuned! :)

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Gigi's 1st Day of Kinder

Gigi started Kindergarten on August 26th and I wasn't ready for it but she was super excited! Here she is all ready for her first day of school...

and she had to have a picture with Liam...

I took her to her classroom on the first day, here she is at her desk...

 And the first week of school they had a carnival, so we had some fun in the photo booth!

Sunday, August 9, 2015

More Random Pics

Some more random iPhone snaps from this summer...


New haircut and color

free ride at the Mall of America


Funny faces at Chik-fil-A

The kids being matchy-matchy in their pajamas! Gigi in her Frozen pj's with Anna & Elsa -- and Liam in his Spiderman pj's with Spiderman!

Me and my little Gigi

and Gigi after she got her ears pierced!