A Touch Of Tyrell

We are loving our Summer strawberries! We didn't buy our house for the house. We bought it for the yard. It has a GIANT yard and that's exactly what we were looking for. We wanted to be able to have a swing set, sandbox, trampoline, fire pit, room to play catch, and still have enough room for a garden and a greenhouse. So we settled on the smaller house, fixed it up, and waited for Summer to roll around.  Well, Summer is almost here and we still don't have a swing set, trampoline, fire pit, greenhouse or garden.... but we have plenty of room for catch :)  Truth be told, we are burnt out.  Fixing up the inside of our house was long and hard (and definitely not recommended). When it came time to pay attention to the reason we bought our house, we just couldn't do it. We are taking the Summer off from any home improvement or project. Including gardening. Luckily I brought over my blueberry bush and strawberry plants from our last house. At least ...

I'm so glad, happy, grateful, relieved, excited etc. that we are done with the kitchen. It's always nice to complete a giant project.  I'm just excited that I can post pictures like this and not have to hide the kitchen progress anymore. :)  (Everett climbs into the laundry bucket whenever it's empty and expects a ride) We are flattered with your kind words and comments. They really make us feel good and give us even more satisfaction than we were expecting. It was a lot of hard work and it has paid off. Thank you.  Between co-workers, Facebook, friends, and the regular blog fans reading the kitchen post, Blogger temporarily disabled my blog due to 'unusually high activity' this morning. It kind-of made me feel a tiny bit famous! Jake received many e-mail and comments all day that gave him even more satisfaction in his construction skills. As for me, this was my very favorite comment: And of course all of the 'this shoul...

It's done.  I can hardly believe it.   (Reader's Digest books!) It just seems completely unreal that it used to look like this: And then this: (I had Jake build out the pantry that was there to be flush with the ceiling and entry closet. I didn't like it after a few days so he took it (completely) out. He is seriously so amazing and patient with me) As you can imagine, it was a ton of work. But somehow we got most of it done in exactly two months. By somehow I mean that we didn't ever go to bed before midnight.  (picture was taken on March 3rd with the Ikea receipt) I have to say, Jake and I make a pretty good team. We did absolutely 100% o...