Kitchen and Landscaping Complete!

I can't believe that tomorrow will be our final house walk through and that on Monday we are settling. I am looking forward to the many adventures my husband and I will share in this home.

Here are some of the final pictures of the construction:
(Below you can see the newly added landscaping and our paved driveway).

(Pictured next is my dream kitchen in reality--right now it's really dusty).

When I first saw our new kitchen put together for the first time it took my breath away (literally).

If you ever saw my current home you would know that I have a hallway for a kitchen. Having more than one person in my current kitchen would be considered crowded. There are only 4 cabinets that are easily accessible (minus the ones above the fridge and stove) that we have to store pots and food in. In fact, our oven has become a second source of storage for us.

So, when I saw all the cabinets and all the space you would understand how a kitchen can take ones breath away. I got so excited that I made my sister meet me at my house to see my kitchen (and it's a good thing she lives so close now).

Congrats Jeff!

I am extremely proud of my husband today and the last 2 years of work at Kadix Systems. Today his boss promoted him to Associate Director and I am ecstatic for him. I'm glad he is at a company that both acknowledges his hard work and the time and commitment he puts into his job.

Congrats Jeff! It won't be long until people are calling you Mr. President. (Well of course that's because you married Madam President!!!!)

(President from the television series 24)

Happy Birthday Nicholas!

My nephew Nicholas turned 1 on May 18th. I can't believe how a year has gone by so quickly. I am extremely proud of my brother for raising such a happy and sweet son.

My brother made sure for Nicholas' birthday to have signs and decorations hanging for him when he woke up (just like how our mom and dad use to do it). Jason took him to Chuck-e-Cheese during the day and then we all met at my moms afterwards to celebrate with Nicholas. He got a lot of great gifts, but he enjoyed the boxes and wrapping paper the most!

Here is a picture of my bother and Nicholas at Chuck-e-Cheese:

Leveling of Land and Installation of Tile

I can't believe we are settling in two weeks. This whole process has seemed to go by so fast, not that I'm complaining...but there is much to be done like packing, painting, and decorating. Can't wait!

You can see a complete 360 of our house below in the next four pictures.

Our lot actually goes past the neighbor’s house that is in front of us (not sure yet what we are going to do with that piece of land yet):

Here is the upstairs bathroom:

Cabinets Are In and Siding is Up!

After Jeff's Birthday we took his family to see the progress of the house. The best thing about our location is that we are only 3 minutes from pops house, 5 minutes from my sisters and brother-in-law's house, and 4 minutes from our friend Katy and Dustin's new house.

Below is a picture of us finally together in front of the home (and you can see a bit of the siding in this picture):

My new kitchen finally a ton of place to store stuff (no more storing pots and pans in the oven):

My gorgeous counter tops:

Happy Birthday Jeff!

My husband celebrated his 29th birthday this past Monday. Boy how time flies I actually met Jeff when he was 23 and I can't believe he is only one year away from the big 30.

On Sunday we celebrated Jeff's birthday with his family by enjoying some steamed crabs and ice cream cake. During the dinner Jeff found out he was never breast fed, so of course his uncle said he could fix that:

(LOL as you can see Jeff's face turned completely red, when he saw his uncle with two balloons under his shirt!)

Jeff, Happy Birthday and I love you.

Brad Paisely Concert

This past weekend my sister Michael and I went to the Brad Paisley concert in Bristow, VA the concert was a lot of fun, but very eventful.

• Bathroom lines were very long that we actually witnessed a woman running behind the Porter-Potty to go to the bathroom. (It’s obvious they needed to purchase more porter potties, especially entering one that was almost filled to the top).
  
• We stood out in the rain for over 3 hours before they allowed us to enter the stadium. Good thing we brought ponchos.


• I got a man removed from the concert; because he was so drunk that he almost punched my sister in the face throwing a ball (not to mention Michael kept getting hit in the head with the ball when it came back down from the crowd). The man fell on a family of two kids trying to catch these balls that the mother asked us to quickly pop the balls when the man was not looking. So, with the help of the people next to us we popped two balls and I put them on top of my bag. The man was so out of control that he literally crawled all the way from the second row to behind my chair and pulled my bag towards him to steals the balls back. Not to mention he decided to flash three teenage girls. Because of all the commotion we missed the entire first concert in fear of this 300 pound man falling on top of us. Without telling my sister (because I had enough), I stood up and walked straight to security and told them they needed to do something about this man. Luckily, a few seconds later the family that was next to us father came over and revealed he was an off duty cop and he agreed the man needed to be removed, because he was drunk and out of control. Security came and removed him and everybody applauded.


• The best part of the night was when Brad Paisley walked 3 feet from both my sister and I to sing a few songs in the audience.
  

Overall the concert was great and I am so glad to have a sister, who is my best friend, to do stuff like this with me.

Here are some images from that night:


Here is picture of Michael and I with Brad Paisley in the background (unfortunately from all the rain we look like drown rats):