Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Part One of the Kitchen Makeover!!!!

I LOVE LOVE my kitchen!  I have tons of counter space and cupboards for days!  It's awesome... except the carpet.  That must and WILL go.  Still waiting for that to come to fruition though so in the meantime I got a titch bit antsy and we decided to paint the cupboards.  I was super excited but pretty nervous at the same time, there would be no turning back from this once we started.  The initial color we picked for the bottom turned out to be way to blue (to light) but we picked a different color and I absolutely love how it turned out.  I seriously couldn't be any happier with it!  YAY!



It was quite a project, we have 67 doors and drawers so it was a lot of time spent on Codys part removing handles and hinges.  Good thing he is patient :)   Cody's parents were absolutely amazing, they let us dump the kids on them for the weekend.  We NEVER would have been able to do it with them here, it was so immensely helpful to have them out of our hair and know that they were having a blast!  They got to meet their new cousin Laycie, and Taylor was beyond excited to hold her.  She tells me everyday how she can't wait to take care of Ollie (babies nickname).  Hayley was awesome and let Tay hold her and she loved every second of it.

                                       All the Allen cousins!!  Until July anyways... :)

                 She's going to be such fun with this baby.  Isn't she adorable!?  Both of them actually! :)


My parents and Brianne helped us paint and we couldn't have done it without their help either.  There is literally no way we could have gotten it done by ourselves in those 2 kid-free days we had.  It ended up being too cold for the paint to dry on the doors in the garage so we had the whole living room floor full of doors.  I really wanted to help but Ollie was posing a bit of a problem for me, so Cody got some Respirators and masks from the safety guy at work.  I was able to help with the whole project, yay!  But that also meant that I had to wear those stupid things for 2 days, it sucked big time.  Really it was quite terrible but at least I got to stay and wasn't banished from the house :)


 






I was 100% frustrated with myself that we forgot to take a legit "before" picture!! No!!! :(  So this one will have to do!  Cooking disaster leads to need for new paint job??  Important thing to remember here is this mes was actually my fault...




Life with the Littles

Some days these Little People of mine just drive me absolutely crazy and by the time it's 5 o'clock I am glued to the window waiting/praying/hoping for Cody to get home and save me.  But.... :)  Luckily that's not the majority of the time haha.  I love these crazy Little People!  I love life with them, I love watching them learn, I LOVE watching them be friends and best buddies and I am so thankful for every moment and every day that I get to spend home with them!! Here's the month that you missed in picture form - including the good, the bad and the ugly! :)


 
Markers are not chapstick...



This is the morning after we had a living room campout.  Tay is tucking Buddy in and rubbing his back.






 This kid LOVES talking on the phone!!! He is always wanting to call a grandma or grandpa!


                 Bath tub painting, my favorite kind!  And they love it, win win for me!

                    Could this girl win a mullet competition or what?!  Check that beast out!!


                                                         Our little Ray Charles