Celebrate!

Today was an exciting day!  We got to install 2 (yes, that's right, TWO) of our appliances!!  WOO-HOO!  It's looking more and more like a home every day!

We started out with the micro-hood....looks pretty nice there I'd say!

We got this for one heck of a deal!  $99 at Best Buy...regular price was $399!
It was an open box they were selling...and the guy gave us the mounting bracket from a different one so we actually had all of the parts except the screws!  SWEET!

Then we FINALLY got to bring in the stove that I bought LAST July!

Yes, you read that right, July 2012!

The kitchen is just about complete now!

I've just gotta get that mess cleaned up!

We even got the kitchen faucet installed...LOVE IT!

We got the laundry faucet installed too!

A VERY productive day!  So much so that we decided we'd take the night off and go to the 4th of July Celebration and watch our friends, The Harmans do a little bluegrass show!

What a gorgeous night it was!  The guys did awesome...and to top it off, we got to spend some time with some old friends of ours that we NEVER get to see anymore!

Love them both so much and miss them to bits!

Their three adorable kiddos were there as well.

I sure wish we got to see them all more often!

Laura & Sidney were both freezing (actually...we were ALL freezing)
This has been some AMAZING summer weather!  Couldn't ask for better!

I even managed to snap a couple of cute pics of Jeff & Sidney when they weren't looking.

Happy 4th of July everyone!!

Grout it Out!

Is this really how I wanted to start my day?

Pull at the house to find my husband on the roof SWEEPING!?!?

What a wierdo :)

After that little "event" we got straight to work....today was "grouting" day!

 Grout REALLY finishes up the project!

See the "haze" on the tiles...I buffed my brains out trying to get that cleaned off  :)

Never ending grout haze...

Lookin' good!

and then...

Yep, that really happened...

Kade went to put the outlet cover on and POP!

Broke the tile right in two.  A quick replacement and we were back in business.

Backsplash City!

It's like non-stop backsplash around here lately!  Kitchen, clutter room and laundry!  But we're just about done with all three!  YEAH!  Today I figured out which tile/pattern that we're going to use behind the laundry sink.  Of course....it ended up being something that would just take more time :)

Home Depot had this tile for I think $10 for 1 sq. ft...you can run it horizontally or diagonally.  Of course, diagonally looked the best to us (duh, it's going to be more difficult!)  White marble with little 3/4" black marble tiles.  Well...there was something just a little off about it (as much as we loved it)

Ah....that looks better.  I found some 3/4" tumbled brown marble at Lowes for about the same price...so does that mean now I have to cut out all of those black 3/4" tiles??

That's enough of that for today!

Lets get the kitchen backsplash done!

Going up!  Didn't take too terribly long - a pretty easy install I would say.

I love it!  Can't wait to grout.

It looks so much more "finished" with a backsplash!

We still need to do behind the stove area.  I'll try and do that tomorrow. 

I can't wait to get all the tools and stuff put away.  Then it will actually start looking like a house and not a construction zone!

Cabinets!!

Oh my gosh...the kitchen cabinets have arrived!!  SOOOO EXCITING!!!  We've GOT to get the flooring done now so we can get them installed!!  We ordered our cabinets from Hickory Street Cabinets in Troy, IL.  I HIGHLY recommend them.  They are awesome!!