Voila!

The top picture is looking into the kitchen from the family room. The red cooler at the far end is my "counter" where I usually cook pancakes on the griddle. The griddle hardly ever slips off. The garbage can in the back right corner is useful as a counter, and with the slanted lid, the paper plates we use fall right to the dog's feet. The black part if the wall is where we have taken out the drywall and the new window will go right there.

Morrie is expanding the kitchen floor into the family room (which is one step lower so we have to raise the floor). Do you like our plastic "walls"? They are super handy and the dog never gets stuck in them...

Maria is handy as a weight when Morrie needs the floor framing held down. Isn't she cute? She only tripped on it once today, and then right afterwards went in the kitchen and tripped over stuff in there. You are not allowed to have bare feet anymore in here. Although, I try to do a really good clean up job so the cats and dog are safe.

Ask and you shall receive...

Okay, here's a picture of the "kitchen". I didn't have my regular lens on the camera, so it's a sub-par shot. I promise I'm going to take more, but for those of you who HAD to see something, here you go! No cabinets, no floor, no nothing! A few appliances though, that's always a plus.

Making a Splash!

Isabelle and her soccer "mates" had a great time swimming in the hotel pool while in Salem. We managed to get them all to line up and jump in together! I should have taken a picture of the spectators by the pool. The girls were screaming up a storm as they sat on eachothers shoulders and pushed one another off, or threw the beach balls. It was insanely loud as the screams would bounce off the tiles walls. In the meantime, the parents were trying to chat while we sat and watched, but the chatting was not going so well. You could hardly ear the other person speaking. We should have sat around texting eachother as would any pre-teen in their right mind!

Salem!

Alright, so these pictures are posted in reverse order, I can't help it! Use your imagination, it's like a fun flip book!

This is from Isabelle's Oregon tournament. I will probably post several times on it, there was so much fun being had! This picture was taken after their 3rd game, which they tied in the last few minutes to qualify them for the semi-finals the next day. It was a nail biter moment for the parents and when Kiana (!) made that goal, the roar from our side was insane!! The previous tournements this year didn't end so well, so this time the girls were beyond excited.

Shoot, Wednesday already?

On the house front we are looking everywhere for a window to install. Checking prices and time frames...this is a blast! Isabelle is having fun at soccer camp this week with her team. Today Maria and I got pedicures while Isabelle was at soccer. It was great, except for the part when the lady cut my toe...hmmm...maybe I should look into nicer places from now on!

I am going a little crazi with the upstairs are messy as the downstairs. We have lots of things packed away and stored in our bedroom, so there is not a single place that is clutter free, or pleasant to be in. So this is what it is like, huh? Ok, ok, so we will be super grateful when it's all done. I'll try to keep that one in mind. The dog keeps licking the sub-floor, and I am afriad she will cut her tongue. The sub floor that seems to be the tastiest are the parts that have jagged gouges. Yummy.

And to top it all off, the children are hungry. Again. Sheesh.

Who needs a kitchen??

We don't!! Our kitchen has been demolished, yay! I'm working on the pics, and all the flooring is gone too, no kitchen floor and no dining room florr. Today I am tearing out the bathroom floor (because why not?). Morrie is moving on to tearing out part of a wall for a new window and the demo part should be somewhat complete and they can have their ridiculous dumpster back. Oh, and I'm loving watching the Olympics in between "cooking" meals for the fam and ripping out carpets!

Ohhh, a dumpster!!

We got our demo dumpster delivered today!! We are really tearing out the kitchen tomorrow and I haven't finished packing the kitchen yet, oh yay! I've been working on it all week, this hasn't even begun to suck yet and I'm overwhelmed??? Nahh...just easily side tracked I guess.