Kitchen Before & After

Here are some pictures of our kitchen. we still need to paint and put up the black splash, so I will post pictures of that when we finish, hopefully sooner than later!

BEFORE:



AFTER:




I guess I haven't taken any pictures with the countertop and sink installed yet. I will post those soon!

New Kitchen Update

Well it's been about a week since we have had a fully working new kitchen! I have to say that I love it!!!! It was worth all the hard work, but I would if I did it again, I would plan out better, so we wouldn't have to have everything done in 2 weeks. I really want to post pictures, but we still haven't put up the backsplash or painted, but maybe I will do it anyway.

Depressed :(

I don't know about anyone else, but this rain is really starting to take it's toll on me. It's been 11 straight day of nothing but rain here, and I'm so sick of it. I really hope that summer will finally decide to show up sooner than later!

Remembering a Soldier, but more importantly a Friend

This past week has been a hard one for me. On May 27, 2009, Jonathan 'Bryce' Millward, a good friend of mine was killed in a helicopter crash in Hawaii. He was stationed there waiting for deployement to Iraq this fall. I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out why it had to happen to him. And the only thing that I can come up with is that God needs him for something greater on the other side. I only knew Bryce for 6 short years, but he will never know what a difference he made in my life. He was a great example of how we all should live our lives. When I first joined the Church he was in my home ward. He never once questioned or thought different of me and welcomed me into his group of friends with open arms.


We had a lot of good times, like driving around town late at night with the windows rolled down blasting The Cure and singing at the top of our lungs. Whenever we'd play night games, it always ended up involving the cops. Many night swimming trips with little kids floaties. Always playing like we were Harry Carry from SNL. "Hey if the Moon was made out of cheese, would you eat it"? "I know I would". Or all the countless hours listening to him play music around the bon fire. I would try and make to every concert his band had, cause it was always a good time. I still listen to their CD for hours. He was an amazing artist. The last time that I saw him, was right before my wedding, I will never forget the conversation that we had that night. My biggest regret is, I found him on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, and I never wrote to see how he was doing. I didn't want to bother him, and was planning on doing it this week. I should have never taken our friendship for granted.


He will truly be missed, and I know that I will see him again someday. The world has lost a Hero, and Heaven has gained an Angel.

Here is a link to the news story in Hawaii
http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/17917/40/

Here is a link to youtube, some friends put this together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIG9D4ZXio8

HELP!!!

I really want to be able to see when people update their blogs! I can't figure out how to do it! If anyone knows how, I would be very greatful to know how!!! :)


Thanks Ladies,
Jess

The Attack Of The 3 Barrel

So today is a beautiful day, and I decided to get all "Dolled Up" So I was getting ready and had an idea to use my 3 barrel curling iron that I haven't used forever. Everything was fine and dandy until I saw a section that I didn't like the way that it turned out, so I tried to re-do it, and you'll never guess what happened! It burnt my hair completely off! and the bad thing about it is, its right in front of my face. All day I have smelt burnt hair. I have no idea how/why it happened. I guess that the 3 barrel will be locked up for a long time.

The End Of The Semester...And We Made It Out Alive!!!

Shawn just finished he first semester of school, and was at the top of his classes!!! :) it will be so nice to finally had my husband back. He has this whole month off, and then starts summer school sometime in June. I still don't understand why people would want to take classes in the summer. If everything goes as planned he will graduate in the winter of 2010.

Since he has this whole month off, we decided that instead of taking a vacation this year, we're going to remodel our kitchen over Memorial Day Week (May 22-31). We are hoping to get everything done in about a 2 week time frame. We both took 10 days off of work, and we hope that is enough. It should be pretty easy, we pretty much already have everything ready to go. I will make sure to post before/after pictures!