Construction Progress

The kitchen, with the exception of a few small details, is finished!!!  The fence is done!  Now we are just waiting on the pool.  Our hardwoods will be refinished next week, and then whenever the custom vent hood arrives, the contractor will come back out to finish the final details of the kitchen.

Our fence gate from the living room window.

 

A view from the driveway during the fence construction.

We completely moved back into our kitchen late last week and over the weekend.  We love the new look and function!  A view from the dining room.

 

A view from the living room. 

 

 

 

Annabelle checking out the ovens. 

 

The kids helped me transfer food from our temporary pantry to our new pantry. 

 

A pic of the new pedestal sink in the powder bath. 

 

We had hoped to donate our old cabinetry to a charity, like Habitat for Humanity.  However, we could not find any organization that would take them, so we opted to use them in our laundry room and garage.  Here are two pic's of the laundry room.

 

I'm looking forward to all the construction being done, so we can get organized in the laundry room and garage! 

Caden's First Basketball Game

Caden is playing basketball through a league at a nearby church.  They place each child on teams according to skill, so even though a handful of Covenant kids are playing, they couldn't all be on the same team.  But because Brian is an assistant coach and Caden's friend Garret's dad is a coach, they were able to request to be on the same team.

They do quite the player introduction.  It's completely ridiculous!

 

Before game warmups.

 

Lined up ready to start the game.  Caden is #1.

 

We went to a hibachi restaurant to celebrate Mimi's birthday.  It was the kids' first attempt at using chopsticks.  Caden was a natural! 

 

Annabelle was pretty scared of the fire show. 

 

Mimi got to ring the bell after we sang happy birthday to her. 

Ice cream for the birthday girl. 



Kitchen and Pool Progress

The kids, Caden especially, are really enjoying watching the pool and kitchen construction.  Caden will sit on the patio for hours at a time watching the guys work.

He likes to make himself a comfortable pillow perch to observe from.  Here he is "supervising" the tiling. 

Even with the drop in temperature, he still wants to be out there.  He just curls up under a blanket. 

 

A view of the pool.

 

And the hot tub.  

 

Our new fence is going up this week.  It will be nice to have a full fence after having our back side exposed for the past six weeks.  Here's a pic from this morning with the fence completely down. 

 

The kitchen is coming along.  The cabinetry was installed last week.  The counters will go in this week, and the backsplash will go in late this week or early next week.  Here are a few pictures.

 

Annabelle went digging through my purse and found my lipstick.