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Finally - pictures!

My life in pictures:

Kitchen:

Love it!


Turning out how I had it in my head.


Looking good.

Deck:

Just a little deck.


Awesome!

Other:

Cat-Dog. Zoe with a dog cut. Oscar slobs all over her and matted her hair so badly she had to be shaved. I as her mom couldn't do it all, so sad. So, we compromised and did a Cat-Dog haircut. Really it's not as bad as it seems. I didn't cry when I picked her up although I was afraid I might have a tear so I took Alex with me for moral support. Picture is blurry but the best one I have with her standing up. She is always on the move these days. Hmmm, maybe it's to get away from slobby dog. ???


A new favorite picture of mine - darn that coat! Our subdivision had a garage sale this weekend and we at last minute decided to participate in it. My dh is the best garage saler around - seriously! Here JB and Oscar are watching the action - or rather waiting for more. It was the end of the day - all were tired.

Celebrity Update:
One note on Oscar. He is getting to be quite the mini-celebrity I'm finding out in our subdivision and a definate hit with the kids. One lady told me she was leaving her husband to marry Oscar - and her husband came down to see him and he confirmed she told him that too! I'm afraid pretty soon kids are going to be coming to the door not to see if Alex or Chad can play but if Oscar could come out and play. He has been skateboarding up a storm this weekend.

He has been working so hard on perfecting his skatboarding skills. We all try to take him out at minimum once a day to practice. He absolutely loves it and I find it theraputic for me as well to just watch. He is a bit sporadic in how he goes about it - a lot of it depends on his mood - and he hasn't quite figured out the concept of all four paws on the board. The way he goes about it is actually much harder on him so I'm looking forward to the day when he knows exactly what to do. However, having said that just yesterday, two times, he did actually have all four paws on the skateboard and skated across the culd-e-sac. I only saw it once but it was a hoot. I think it happened on accident and he was just tired. He was going so unbelievably slow - turtle like - but it went from one side of the culd-e-sac to the other, inching along but moving the whole time. He just stood there. Everyone who was outside (which were a lot) completely stopped what they were doing and watched. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Then he got to the other side, put a foot down and everyone went crazy. I'm talking hands in the air, belly laughs, the whole thing. LOL! Tooooooo funny!!!! I know he is on a lot of peoples cell phones as photos because I saw them taking pictures. I think today I'm going to video him and attempt to post it. Too funny!
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Sneak Peek...

I have planned to post this for at least a week now (actually over a week) but each time I try to do it I have problems with the photos. So, I think it may actually work this time here goes... Spoke too soon. Something is going on with my computer (never good!) where the cookies or re-visiting certain sites locks up that portion of my computer. Seems online banking and Flickr are the two sites I have the most trouble with.

Anyway... been working slowly on the kitchen. I put up all but one panel of the beadboard and am waiting on an order of trim to come in so I can finish putting that up. I will then apply some stain to the beadboard and trim and after a couple days I will begin painting. I'm going to visit a glass company this week and order some glass panels for a few of my cabinet doors - fairly inexpensive so I've heard. I'm experimenting with some additional trim ideas and now exploring the idea of creating a wall oven. Yes, this project is getting a bit out there but I'm still extremely budget conscious. However, I'm also into improving the value of our home.

Today the carpets got cleaned - YEAH! Have to say, they were bad but not that bad seeing as we've never had them professionally cleaned since we moved in 5 years ago!

Oh yeah and did I mention the thing about a deck? Can't remember what I posted before - it's been so long. We are putting on very nice deck and outside entertainment area. We were going to do it in phases but our phases have started merging together - lol - that's dh's doing. I'm not arguing mind you. He has to come up with the money or financing, I do the designing. Turns out we are doing the deck with pergola (large and small) and a patio with firepit. That was supposed to be three phases - merged into one. Next phase will be where we build a grill area and landscape. They should be starting in a week - I can't wait! Although I'm still tweaking the design so additional time is fine with me.

The boys are doing good but seriously questioning what the heck we are doing. When we moved home we only thought we were going to be in this house for five years. Turns out we are staying here longer then originally planned. We LOVE our neighbors, the boys LOVE their school and friends... not ready to give that stuff up so we are deciding to make out house the way we really wanted it originally. We are done spending all of our time on our business, we are ready to enjoy spending time with our friends and family. I want to start cooking. I want to relax. DH needs to relax...


Got to go.....





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