tribute to katie-kate

katie-kate loves to hang with her dad.
check out the video below. blame the hair on her mother.

KYLE PASSED pART II BOARDS

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Nice job, kyle. Maybe now you can get back to hitting the green.

crema delicato: coming soon

Crema delicato; lovely in all its varities. below is one of the slabs that will be going in my kitchen.

although quartz is the most practical choice, we decided we are sick of practical and are going to start living for beauty. they misquoted us significantly on the slab, but our new motto in demopolis is plan on getting hosed.

we also decided to go with marble because we live in an historic town, and marble has that timeless flair to it that man-made products don't have. hopefully it will help with the resell.

a couple of tips for those putting marble in their kitchen: GET IT HONED. lemon, ketchup, salad dressing, and other acidic things will eat the shine on your marble; we tried it for ourselves on a spare marble tile.

another note: while shopping for bar stools in tuscaloosa we came across this table for $98. it was perhaps the first good deal we've gotten in 6 months. the best part: it fit in our van, yeah quest.

sits 10-12 with the leafs. not quite our style but the price was right.

Few more bumps in the road

#21 Cabinent guy's mother has a stoke and dies while he is installing our cabinents. So cabinents not quite finished yet. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him for his family for their loss.

#22 Countertop folks mis quote us $23 per square foot on the marble (73sqft) back to the drawing board on that one.

#23 Garage door guy forgot about us, still needs to install one door and windows on all three. I visited him yesterday and he told me he didn't have any money to order the doors. What happened to the 3 grand I gave him in October?

Kate and Ella love each other and the fun Valantines animals grandma anne sent.

The snow is pretty much gone but the snowman lives on.

Brittney told me today that once our countertops are installed she will be the best wife ever. I just wanted written documentation of this one.

Cute picture of Kate.

Snow in Alabama

It took a historical event like snow for the first time in 15+ years to get me to author a blog entry. My excuse is that I am a slave and have no time.


Ella and I made this snow man and Ella named him Frosty. All Ella wanted to do was knock him down so I built her another one to knock down.

Here is snowman #2, Ella's punching bag. Notice the wood stacked in the back ground it is from the two trees I cut down this week. I narrowly avoided a disaster and a crushed kitchen, that darn tree didn't want to fall the way I wanted it too. Needless to say I got a little nervous when the tree was completely cut and still standing straight up even with two missionaries pulling on it with a rope.


The begining of the snow

Thats all for now i must prepare, Brittney and I are speaking in church tomorrow.

kitchen cabinets are almost finished

now the question is: honed marble or quart countertops? either way we are three weeks out. they are coming to measure on monday. the bottom two are white kitchens with marble. not as durable as the quartz but infinately more beautiful.

The projects finished one by one, hurrah! hurrah!

1. Kyle and ella getting ready to attack the yard (5 bushes and 2 trees, gone)
2. The human tractor
3. Missionaries helping the tree fall away from our newly remodeled kitchen
4. Katie-kate watching the fun from the window
5. Ella practicing after her dance class