Summer's almost here!

Wow - has it really been a month since I've been on here? Apparently so. The kitchen is finally finished (well, almost). We just have the backsplash to do (which has been ordered) and carpet (also ordered) then little things... but yeah !!! so happy to have it done. In true Tami form I promptly started another project; painting Ashley's room. She's been very patient to have the same decor since we moved in (she was 1, she's 7 now). We went with a pottery barn green on the walls and pink and green bedspread. We still have a few things to do in there as well before I start on their bathroom (again). I'm pretty sure I'll get it right this time.

The girls get out of school on Wednesday and they're SO EXCITED!! Nicole had a fun field trip last week to the Nez Perce national museum outside of Lewiston and then went to play in the park for the next 2 hours. It was such perfection for them.

FUN FUN FUN

The girls and I went up to Coeur d'Alene this weekend. Nicole and I had tickets to a Carrie Underwood concert (so good) and Ashley chose not to go - her reasoning was "I'll just listen to one song then I'll want to go" so true and I'm glad it was her that made that decision. Then on our was back to Moscow we stopped at a friends' cabin (oops... house) on the lake for the first time and they invited Ashley to stay the night, which of course she was happy to do. It was so cute to watch her "fish" with her friend, Grace. We've been fortunate to be getting a lot of alone time with the girls which has been nice.

Beth Moore

I drove down to Boise this last weekend to see Beth Moore's conference. Every time I listen to her it just brings me to tears (in a good way). I went with many people from our chuch and rode with 3 friends that I got to know even better and thoroughly enjoyed the drive. The little Salmon river was so full of water it was amazing and water was gushing out of the culverts from the hillside. Wow!!

High School musical fun

The girls and I went up to Spokane to see High School Musical. What a fun night. There were 20 of us.

Ashley with friends, Grace and Kindra

Nicole and Berlyn

The day for hiccups

So today was the day set aside for hiccups, speed bumps or problems, whichever you want to call them. I guess I missed that memo otherwise I might have wanted to take a vacation today. I lost count of how many "problems" after the plumber had been at our house for 6 hours today. Luckily, I have a very wonderful and creative cabinet man who was able to solve all of the problems even though they had nothing to do with his cabinets.

I'm still praying for patience. So far God hasn't let me down in that area.

Tomorrow the electrician and cabinet man come back to finish the pony wall and hook up my dishwasher and disposal. I might just have Paul take a picture of me doing my "dishwasher dance". I finally got to do dishes in the kitchen sink today after 3 months of doing them in the laundry room sink. At least I had a laundry room sink to do them in eh?

Kitchen updates

It seems like when things get rolling - they really get rolling. Yesterday, the men came to install the granite. It took them 4 hours (and a lot of dust) to get everything done, but in the end it looks perfect and there were only a few hiccups (at least no dropped or cracked granite).

More kitchen progress

I'm not sure how long it's been now (I must be losing track of time) but we got doors and drawer fronts on the cabinets today and they look BEAUTIFUL. We're now able to put things away in the drawers and - can you believe it - I might have a sparsely filled drawer here and there. Never thought it would happen in this house :)