Kitchen Before & After

It's done!! My kicthen project is finally done! (Or at least done for the moment) Here are a few before and after pics. It is amazing what a little paint and a new sink can do....

Cabinets "before" paint and new hardware




Cabinets "after" paint and new hardware


Sink & faucet Before


Sink & Faucet After


We will eventually replace the countertop and backsplash and we are working on upgrading the appliances but I am very happy with my 70 year old "new"-for-now kitchen. :) I will get my new light fixtures at some point this week and possibly a new table so when I get those in and it decorated again I will post more pictures. I am so happy with all the progress we are making with our house. In two weeks my brother is coming to update the electrical for us so I can actually use the stove and the oven at the same time! YAY. I can't believe it took us so long to make all these updates but I am glad we are finally doing them.

Panic on 2nd East

First I want to thank Chief Harwood, Salina City Police Dept, Sevier Co. Dispatch, and Chad Beach. You are all amazing and we are so glad you were there to help when we needed it.

Now to the story (or in Chase and my case..nightmare) I am sitting at work and it's around 11:30. Chase rings in on my cell....not unusual. I pick up and can tell he is upset and crying. "I can't find Hagen!" My stomach dropped. Chase and Hagen had been awake and playing and Chase went in the bathroom to buzz cut his hair. When he came out of the bathroom he couldn't find Hagen.

Chase yelled and yelled and then started looking all around the house for him. Nowhere. He went to look downstairs and the back door was opened a crack. He went downstairs and looked anyway and when he didn't find Hagen he went outside to look and yell. Hagen was nowhere. Chase called me and then dispatch. I hauled ass home and checked the house again looking under blankets and clothes piles, checked closets, under beds, behind couches, in the washer, dryer, and deep freeze. All the time yelling. Our neighbor Chad volunteered to go look around the neighborhood to see if he was wandering around.

Chief Harwood came and went through the house a third time while Chase looked outside and I headed to the neighbor's. While I was standing on the neighbor's porch I looked back at our house and Chief Harwood was walking out our front door with Hagen in his arms. I felt instant relief from my hysteria. I ran back to the house gave Hagen the biggest hug I could give him. Chief Harwood had the thought to pull back the covers on our bed and there Hagen was fast asleep with the covers over his head. Chase I both checked under our bed and Hagen's bed and IN Hagen's bed, but not IN our bed. Why he didn't hear us yelling is beyond me considering he is a light sleeper but regardless, I am so glad he is safe! I am also very glad it was Chief Harwood that came to our rescue!

I can't tell you how sick Chase and I were. Definately the WORST feeling in the whole world. Then when you know they are safe you feel like such a retard that you had to call the cops to find your child who was in your bed the whole time.

I pray that none of you ever have to feel the anxiety of a missing child!

Kitchen Project

Last Saturday Chase & Hagen went to Panguitch to see Grandpa Kenneth so I decided I would paint the kitchen. This seemed like an easy enough project and it would FINALLY get rid of my 50's yellow kitchen like I have wanted to for 5 years now, but this project seems to have a snowball effect.....
Considering my cabinets were the same color as my walls & trim I couldn't paint the walls and leave the cabinets the same 50's yellow. So I figured it wouldn't be that hard to paint the cabinets too and if I am going to paint the cabinets I am going to do it right and strip and sand them. Well since everything else in the kitchen is going to look new I need new lighting and my sink needs to be replaced because it's yellow too. If I am replacing the sink then I may as well replace the countertop and back splash. Now that my kitchen will be updated instead of yellow then I need to paint the laundry room too because its yellow. I can keep going on and on....

Well I am now to day 4 of my "weekend" kitchen project and I am thinking I will probably be at it AT LEAST another week to finish the cabinets. Argh! Why do I get myself into these things?! Why can't money grow on trees so I could just hire someone to do this for me?! Man, life is rough! ;)

"BEFORE" cabinets and wall color


"AFTER" wall, ceiling, & trim colors and upper cabinet doors down.


I will post more pictures as I progress through my project and I will just keep telling myself the end result will be worth all the work. And bonus I will get to say I did it ALL BY MYSELF considering Chase wants no part in this project. What will I need a man for now that I know how to run all these power tools?? LOL