Monday, November 14, 2011

:)

We have made fantastic leaps and bounds in the Kitchen department!

The last time you all saw the kitchen it looked like this:



 Since then we've installed our beaded board back splash:

Please excuse the iPhone photo quality-I was too lazy to pull out my big fancy camera and things were happening!!
So this is the best I've got. 
stop whining.



And refinished the floors-We had to move out for this step because the fumes were so strong-we stayed at Michael parents house so we wouldn't be breathing it in all night.  I don't have any pictures of the process for this reason. At least that's what I'm going to say-really its because I just didn't take any...but they are gorgeous and I'll put some in my next post- I promise.  If you can't wait until then just click HERE and see what we did for our bedroom floors - its basically the same thing and the same amount of work for my husband-man he's amazing;)

THEN we assembled the cabinets.  Can I hear a whoot whoot for  my sis-in law Alita-she helped me build most of them and now we're IKEA cabinet pros! Seriously we can put them together in our sleep...not to brag or anything...


another terrible Iphone picture...I promise fancy high resolution pictures of these too..


 We've also started our counter tops



Which are actually further along than this and beautiful but I'm going to leave you in suspense until they're done. And just for reference that empty space is for a new dishwasher we have yet to purchase and that white beaded board box in the right corner is a sneak peek at the banquet seat Michael is building.
yes I'm doing teasers now...gotta keep ya'll on your toes...


The most important improvement, though, is that while installing the cabinets my sweet husband did this:




 so I could do this:



That man loves me...













Its a...


Last Sunday we had our reveal party! Michael and I decided to go with the balloons for the "wow" factor-plus we knew there would be a big crowd and it would be easier for everyone to see than a cake. But we couldn't have a party without something sweet! So my cake genius friend and I made these adorable cupcakes!
 
They fit in perfectly with the whimsical victorian feel we ended  up with-I knew I wanted pink and blue since they are such iconic boy/girl colors but I didn't want it to feel cheesy so we made it a little more sophisticated with the black and gray

 When guests arrived we had them pick a "side" and make their selection known on the blackboard 






 Team mustache had a pretty strong lead...









 

Then we gathered outside around the awkwardly wrapped box ( poor mom had quite a job getting it to stay closed with all those balloons in there)

 and found out


 its a GIRL!!!!!



 We are so excited to add another precious daughter to our family

  plus Gwen will be such a good big sister-just look at that face! 
I hope they have the same close relationship that my sisters and I share-those girls are my best friends!!