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!!

Upper Cabinets - YEAH!

Wow...what a difference this makes!  Today the installer from the cabinet company came out to help Kade install the upper cabinets.  They got busy right at 8 a.m. and were done at about 1.  Not bad I don't think.  It's amazing what having some help can do!

Installing the cabinets around & above the stove.

I'm so glad that I didn't have to be over there helping, lol.

Lookin' pretty good.  That refrigerator end panel section is new to us.

I LOVE IT!!!

It's strange....I don't even like to cook (bake, yes, cook, no)...but I am actually getting anxious to use this kitchen!  Maybe that's what it was all this time.  I didn't like being separated from everything else.  It's like you're isolated in the kitchen.  YUCK!

Let's Get this Party Started!!

Hmmm....what can we do first??  Let's get rid of the GORGEOUS (not!) tile in the bathroom and kitchen!!  The tile in the bathroom came off the floor and the walls pretty darn easy (lucky us!)  We didn't have a dumpster yet so we couldn't just go in and rip out wall...we had to control ourselves and only tear out what we could fit in to buckets for now!

Before we started digging in.....  Does anybody want the blue tub, toilet or sink?

 Oh the bathroom, what a site for sore eyes ;)

 I'm so glad that tile was pretty easy to get off!

Just a few taps with the hammer and a five-in-one and walla!

Kitchen (before)

 The tiles in the kitchen were a little more difficult.  However, they came off enough to not be in the way when removing the plaster/drywall.

 I know everyone is jealous of those cabinets...I'm sure you're all thinking

"Why on earth are they getting rid of those?" lol!

Oh, and the wallpaper wall.  That had to go!  I actually think it was the first thing we tore out!