Monday, December 29, 2014

House Remodel

I'll post soon with pictures of our Christmas celebration but first I wanted to show what we've been focusing on around here lately. Over the past few weeks, we've been doing quite a bit of work at our new house, trying to finish everything before moving in (hopefully around Jan 15).

This is our kitchen when we bought the house. Original to the house, many of the drawers didn't work properly, shelves were unstable and everything was generally sticky beyond repair. To keep costs down, we didn't change the layout but rather just replaced the cabinets, countertop, sink and fridge. The stove, dishwasher and microwave work fine so no need to replace them. It was pretty amazing to see all of this work completed in less than a week (not by us!)




 
goodbye sticky cabinets!





 
Interestingly, the granite is pretty similar to what we had installed in our Florida house kitchen.




 
I didn't take before pictures of the bathrooms except for this one to show the tile I picked out. You can see the old yellow linoleum on the floor.

 
New tile installation in progress!
We also replaced all of the carpet in the house with the carpet you can see at the bottom of the picture (it was in progress here).

 
These were the big changes. A lot of little things were also done: new ceilings fans, gross gold shower doors removed, etc. We'll take more pictures when we move in :)

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Thanksgiving and Christmastime

Happy Thanksgiving!

 
En route to Vegas!

 
The view from our room in the Venetian

 
lots of lights and sounds at the slot machines














 
Stopped for lunch on our way back to San Diego. Bradley decides he's too big/old for a booster seat

 
wearing slippers like daddy

 
Beautiful warm December day




 
Still likes his slippers

 
important business call

 
First day of the advent calendar. Or as Bradley calls it, the "chocolate book"

 
breakfast buddies

 
Say Hi!

 
December seems to be dandelion season here. Bradley loves blowing the white ones

 
Time to find our christmas tree!






 
Bradley loves the Christmas tree, even saying good morning and good night to it each day. He's even started hugging "christmastree!". So cute

 
Where's Bradley?!

 
Still enjoys organizing the kitchen. Conveniently, he usually puts everything away when he's done.

 
Giving kisses to Mickey

 
Saying hi to Christmastree