I Heart Blogs!

I love, love, love blogs!! I love surfing them, finding new things to try and the best thing - meeting new blogging gal pals. I love each of these women for different reasons and totally wish they all lived on my street!

So let me introduce you to some of my sweet ladies!

Crystal from Little Bit Funky!

She always has something really cool up her sleeves and 2 darling boys to boot!

Kristi from Everything Is Pink!

Is always finding some kind of junk and turning it into a treasure! Her girls are darling and I love their adventures!

Julie from Joy's Hope!

I feel totally connected to Julie - she inspires me to be a better Mommy and is a crafty gal too! her daughter's - well you want to eat them with a spoon!

Shelley from House of Smith's!

I love seeing their house transform into a home! She has great ideas!!

Kari from Ucreate!

This lady finds THE NEATEST blogs with all kinds of awesome stuff to try!

Meg from Whatever!

Well, her blog simply rocks! Her kiddos are the bomb and her pictures make me want to take better ones myself. Meg inspired my kitchen makeover!!

Like I said, I heart them all!!! If I could wrap them all up and move them to my street I would in a herat beat! We'd craft, play, take pictures, hang out and be buddies!

Take a minute and check out their blogs - I have a feeling you will love them as much as I do!

Oooops - A - Daisy!!

Biscuit isn't totally lovin' the new kitchen like the rest of us!! That is due to the new tile that she isn't too keen about walking on.

I put this HUGE old quilt down for Maddie to play on cuz she wants to be in her ALL the time like me ... but I think Biscuit is very thankful for the quilt so part of the time she doesn't have to walk on the tile.

 

She is such the baby!!

 I put this HUGE old quilt down for Maddie to play on cuz she wants to be in her ALL the time like me ... but I think Biscuit is very thankful for the quilt so part of the time she doesn't have to walk on the tile - she is such a little baby!!!

She hates to hardwood floors as well and only the old sewing room now family room and my bedroom have carpet. Poor pup!

Hope she'll get used to it and love it as much as the cat does! She comes in and stretches out on it these hot days forever.

outRAGEous

Friday we finished a week of Cheer Camp - Maddie cheering and Me driving and loving all her happiness and excitement!!

I want to thank East Coast Rage formerly Spirit All Stars in Suffolk, Va. What a great experience! 

Susan, Rachel, Haley, Mollie & Kayleigh - you girlies rocked!!

Now We're Cookin'

It's - almost done! All the major stuff is in and complete now - except the sink and hooking up the dishwasher! (Hopefully that will happen this week - no sink sucks!)

I am so psyched!!!! It is so beautiful!!! Even my Daddy loves it and he was totally not sold on the colors when I picked them out - now he wants to tear up his kitchen - ha!

The one thing left to do is get stools - I ordered them before the island was in and the ones I got are too tall :(

(See the one next to door - too tall. Short stool was for the desk part which is right behind the tall stool)

So will be ordering new stools just like the tall one, but shorter version - ONLY PROBLEM is Madison and JE want the little stools with no backs and I want backs. Hmmm? Now I am so confused- LOL!!! Just a problem, right? Well I have waited so long and want it all so right!

Will post more pictures later of all the cool things that are hidden behind those cabinet doors!

Enjoy your sneak peek!!

Can't wait to have everyone over after the other rooms are put back together! :)

Momma Wants One TOO!!! - PLEASE VOTE

Ok, so my friends Julie and Meg did this and JULIE WON!!!

So I am pleading with you all to slip over to Smile Generator and vote for my picture .. there is a possiblity that I could win an IPad .. maybe!

http://shareasmile.smilegeneration.com/submission/subprofile/499

This is the link .. so go create a profile and vote .

This is the picture I submitted! Maddie "Bed Surfing" when we went to the Miley Concert last Nov. What great fun ... even I did it. I am pretty sure the people down stairs didn't like it, but I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard!!!!

Kitchen Update

This is my life since MARCH!!!! Yeah, you heard right!!! MARCH!!!

I still have no cabinets, BUT am suppose to get those installed this coming Friday!!! It can't get here fast enough either!!!

Of course I am tickled to death, but we still have several hurdles ---- floor to be measured for the new flooring, flooring installed, counter tops measured, counter tops installed, the appliances delivered and hooked up and then the touch up paint, shoe molding and crown molding!

So as I hit the big hurdle Friday there are several more to come which I pray will be speedier than the cabinets!

So this week I shall clean out the kitchen to make room for my lovely cabinets and clean out the old sewing room which will then become our family room.

Wonder where all the mess will go???

So busy week cleaning and trips to the pool sandwiched in there as well.

Maybe in a few weeks I will be able to actually cook and pull out the real dishes again!! Yes we have used paper plates and plastic utensils since March as well!

My Photo Friday

Our trip to Beaufort, NC  :)