Progress as promised

The kitchen cabinets are done!

After two weekends of hard work step 1 of our kitchen update on the cheap is done.

The hours of sanding, painting, and distressing were worth it.

I am so happy with the results and love that Kenny and I were able to pull this off ourselves.

Everyone loves a good before and after so...

From this dreariness ( Ignore the Jack. Painting is stressful. )

To a pretty brighter shade

..and the awful bookcase

....to a less awful bookcase.

I am still not sure what I want to have on these shelves but I am sure Pinterest will lead me to something

There is still plenty to be done that we will be tackling in the next weeks but this big change is a great step in the right direction.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and all you creative family and friends feel free to give me some ideas on decorating :)

Guess what we did this weekend?

Lots and lots of painting.

A kitchen makeover is the first on our long list of house projects.

Unfortunately we can't get new appliances at this time but we are starting with taking our dark cabinets to a light bright color.

We spent about 20 hours sanding, priming, and painting and are close to finished with the top cabinets.

Although far from done the lighter color already makes me smile.

Kaleb even got in on some painting action.
The rest of the weekend was spent watching The Wire
(Yes we are 10 years behind but thanks to HBO Go Kenny and I are hooked on this show)

The weekends to come will be spent with more work on the kitchen and lots of beadboard.
Hope you all had a great weekend!

It's been awhile

So family sorry for the lack of updates for the last six months.

We have been crazy busy!

I hope to update a little more often than twice a year :)

Here's a quick recap of the past months.

We bought a house!

We love our new home and have lots of little projects coming up to make the space our own.

I will make sure to keep you posted on our first DIY attempts coming up.

Our favorite boy turned 7!

I can't believe how fast he is growing up.

I am happy to report he is owning first grade and turning out to be quite a little genius

We took a trip to Lego Experience in Dallas.

Kaleb loved this place and we had a great time spending the day with his favorite toys.

I realized I'm getting old when we had our 10 year reunion.
Here I am with the lovely Leslie

Jack Sparrow visited our house for Halloween. It was our first Halloween in our new neighborhood and it was great meeting all the neighborhood kids.

Our first Christmas in the new house was the best yet.

Kaleb got lots of presents from Santa including this little thing he had been eyeing.

He had some reindeer pancakes ( thank you Pinterest )

Our family's came over for dinner and I made my first attempt at cooking a holiday meal.

It turned out pretty well and was a great day!

During the break it was unseasonably warm so we took advantage and checked out same nature trails.

Apparently that fresh air was making Kaleb silly.

Goins turned 30! My dear friend started his new decade with some old friends for some drinks.

We took a trip with the Honan's to Vegas!

Getting ready to head out for dinner and a show.

Watching the Super Bowl

So that's been a quick recap of the last months.

I will make sure to keep everyone posted on our house projects and post pictures of the house soon.

Also in store this year..hopefully some half marathons in a couple of states I have never been to!

Bye Bye July

How in the world is July almost over?

It has been a super fun super busy month.

Kenny is still playing roughneck.

It sucks but he makes manual labor look pretty good.

I spent a relaxing weekend in Houston visiting Lauren.

We drank, and ate, and swam, and drank and ate some more.

I got to meet her boyfriend and stepdog.

It's always nice to get out of town and see one of my favorite girls!

Just as great the next weekend my other favorite out of state girl was in Tulsa!

Since she's moved to South Carolina we're lucky to see each other once a year so it's always very exciting when she comes home for a visit.

Kaleb loves Casey!

He also loves baseball right now!

Since watching Sandlot he has become obsessed with my least favorite sport.

Regardless we braved the heat and took him to see a Drillers game.

We all had a blast and are so impressed with the stadium downtown.

Well that's my highlights of July.

I hope everyone else is enjoying their summer!

Summer so far

The summer is flying by so far.

Here are some picture highlights

Belgian Waffles & Crepes at Mod's

This place was awesome!

If your in Tulsa you should check it out.

Trips to Whole Foods

We of course cannot leave without Kaleb getting a treat from the bakery.

Speaking of Whole Foods I am loving this video. Even in Tulsa this is pretty accurate.

Father's Day and Dad's Birthday

We got Dad a new GPS

Mom made a watermelon basket

Kaleb has been building at Lowe's

We celebrated Karen's Birthday!

We had a wonderful dinner at Keo and dessert at Cosmos.

Kaleb went to Vacation Bible School.

He had a blast and learned so much!

Kaleb's love of sno cones continues to grow

We watched fireworks with the Hick's and Michael

Firework 5K!

Terri,Shelley, and I took an early morning run downtown

It's been a great summer so far now it's time to wrap this week up before a girls weekend in Houston!

I hope everyone else is having a fun safe summer!

Working for the weekend

Kaleb and I had a great weekend together passing the time until Kenny gets back home.

We ate a lot of food

Kaleb discovered his love of baby bell peppers

We took some nice jogs

The jogs included plenty of stops to check out wildlife

Kaleb got to learn "Car-ate" at the Disney store...Disney's pun not mine

There was some swimming

After a fun filled weekend Monday was here and it was time to take the little guy to college.

He was so excited to go to a real college and take class.

The local community college is offering College for Kids this summer and they have so many cute classes.

Kaleb is particularly found of "Encounters of the Wild Kind"

Now it's time to finish up the work week.

Kenny gets home tonight and the work week will be half way over!

Also on the agenda this week:

Get used to this heat! I went jogging yesterday afternoon and about died!

The morning jogs are much more enjoyable but when Kenny is OOT they are not an option so I'll have to get used to the 95+ degree temps quickly.

Anyone with some good hot weather running tips send them my way!

I hope everyone has a great week!

All by myself, Don't want to be all by myself anymore

Ok, so technically I wasn't really all by myself but that's a really good song so...

With Kenny playing roughneck and Kaleb at Grandma & Papa's Terri decided to keep me company.

I arrived at her place were I was treated with dinner.

Yummy tacos and salad.

We split a bottle of this stuff (my favorite)

And checked out this flick.

Neither of us were a fan of this movie but we now feel we know Ms. Hathaway very well.

(I mean seriously; I would have been a work out fiend if I had to be naked that much in a movie)

We both wished they would have focused on the pharmaceutical industry a little more instead of jumping all over the place but I guess that's what documentaries are for.

After that I returned home all by my lonesome.

Since I can't entertain myself I was asleep early which was good so I could get in an early run.

Holy hell humidity. Even early in the morning I was sweating before I started.

After a really hot run it was time to head home and spend 30 air conditioned minutes with the

"Israeli Stud Muffin"

So Gilad is cheesy but he is always my fall back form of exercise.

(Really this dude is 56?!)

After some fuel (Amanda you will love these someday) it's time to clean and wait for Kaleb to come home. Maybe a day at the pool is in order.

I hope everyone has a fun weekend ahead of them!