New Work to Share with You

I haven't posted any new layouts on here in several months, so I apologize for that.  But I have been busy working on stuff.  I made a slide show below of all my newest stuff that I've done over the past couple of months.  Take a look and enjoy!

Juste a Taste...

Well, we did it.  We bit the big one and ordered our new kitchen this week!  I don't mind telling you that they had to use the defibrillator on me at the checkout counter...lol.  Our new cabinets will be delivered around the first week in April and installation complete about 3 weeks after that.  Then it will just be up to Tony and I to lay the new floor, paint and tile the new backsplash.  I can't wait for everyone to see it.  I think it's going to be gorgeous!  Here's just a little taste for you though:

Cabinet Style (Birch wood with a Praline Pecan color stain):

Countertops (FX180, a new really durable and gorgeous formica):

I can't wait to get it all done.  Tony and I have been completely stressed out over this.  It's such a monumental and expensive project.  It was quite intimidating.  But it will be worth it when it's completely finished and we are able to have our friends over and be proud of it.  Talk to you soon!

It's been soooo long...

Wow!  I can't believe how long it's been since I've been on here.  I've completely neglected by blogging duties (and most of you have reminded me..over and over and over...lol)! 

There has been so much going on, let me try to catch you up:

We have all been sick, sick, and sick again.  It's been an awful winter for illnesses in our house.  Not to mention the fact that I'm still battling with my migraine induced vertigo, so it's been pretty bad.  I'm sooo ready for spring!!

Probably the biggest news that most of you don't know is that I quit smoking cold turkey!  I've been cigarette free since January 11, 2010.  It was really difficult at first, but after a couple of weeks, I became adjusted to my new routine.  I'm glad I did it and the kids are really happy too.

Holly is finally getting her two front teeth.  They actually popped through on X-mas morning (can anyone say "All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth"?).  Although, now the 2 teeth on either side of the new ones are getting ready to fall out...lol.  I'm beginning to think she's going to be toothless for the rest of her life. We've also been working really hard on her reading and she is almost caught up with her class.  Way to go Holly!!

Brody is about the same.  We don't see a whole lot of him.  When he gets home he does his homework and then he heads straight out to play with his friends until dinner.  He's still working really hard at school and making decent grades.  The amount of detentions has dramatically decreased which is nice!

Tony and I have been busy working and with life in general.  We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on January 30 at Fogo De Chao.  What a fun restaraunt! I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful and loving husband to spend my life with.  I'm not sure that it's possible but I think I actually love him more today than the day we got married. 

We've also started a new and very exciting project.  We are remodeling the kitchen!  It's already been stressful and it's only been about a week, but we hope to have it finished in the next 6-8 weeks.  We have an appointment tomorrow to order the cabinets we designed.  And we spent all last weekend purchasing the new appliances.  We are planning on doing most of the work ourselves at this point, but we'll see how that works out...lol.  I'm going to try and document this process with pictures.  It will be fun for everyone to see the before, during and after!

I'll try not to wait so long before I post again.  I hope everyone is having a great year so far.  See you all soon!!