Kitchen Transformation

My main project I wanted to tackle this summer was a kitchen makeover of our countertop and cabinets. One of these days I'll remember that big do-it-yourself projects mean a lot of hard work & sweat! We started by taking down the valance over the window and prepping the countertops.

Painting the countertops...

Chipping the counters...

We love how they turned out!The next step was taking down the cabinet doors...Painting the cabinets...

All finished!We are thrilled with how it turned out!

New Windows!!

We've been talking about adding windows to our living room ever since we bought this house 6 years ago. Our neighbor got some free windows from his job a few weeks ago and offered to put them in for us. Here is the living room before...figuring out where we would like each window to go. There's one...

and there's number two...

Here they are all trimmed out and painted!!

We LOVE them! It's so much brighter now!! Wish we hadn't waited so long to do it!!

Father's Day...

Any man can become a father, but it takes someone special to become a Daddy! So thankful for a Daddy that works hard for his children and loves them dearly. His Father's Day "Daddy" french toast...

Sammy loves when they read together...Daddy is so tan, he's almost as brown as Sammy!!

Playing Mall Madness with Nathan and Emily!

Painting & Marshmallows!!

Sammy got to try out the sidewalk paints today!! He was very excited...especially about the paint on his hands!!

By the time we were done there was more paint on him, me, and our clothes than on the driveway!!

I let the big kids raid Daddy's irrigation supplies and make some marshmallow shooters!

They are such a blast and Princess & Sammy have fun catching the ammo!!

Summer Fun!

Thankful for our swimming pool on these hot summer days! The kids spend nearly every afternoon out there!

Nathan taught Sammy how a suirt gun works!!!

Giant Cookie Making!!

Random...

Just a few random photos from last week...Nathan & Emily making themselves some Oreo Truffles. Sammy is so proud of how high be can stack the blocks (as well as knock them over!)

We've had lots of playtime in the pool...someone likes to steal his Mama's glasses! I like to call him Stevie Wonder when he does (which spawned into a very lengthy dinner discussion of "Who's Stevie Wonder?" from Nathan & Emily and may or may not have included some singing of "Ebony & Ivory"!)

Sharing some ice cream in the pool!

At the beach...part 3

Last set of pics at the beach...an attempt to get some family beach pics...

This one is my FAVORITE...we are a very blessed Mommy & Daddy with there three special kiddos!
They all turned out really good...