Sunday, February 28, 2010

Kitchen Remodeling Pics

So, finally, we have before and after pics of the new kitchen.  Check ‘em out – the old kitchen is on the left and the new one is on the right… (you can click them for larger versions)
entrance

notice the horrible white tile floor and the idiotic tile countertop (that whoever lived here before did themselves, so it was crooked and had the wrong kind of grout) now we’ve got a sweet travertine floor, custom-built maple cabinets, and black granite countertops

wall

(this is looking to the right as you walk in) and for some reason, there were no lower cabinets on the right when you walked into the kitchen – and the ONLY upper cabinets we had were these two now with lower cabinets, DRAWERS!!!, and upper cabinets.. also an awesome diagonal tile backsplash with mini black tile accent stripe…
sink
before we had an ugly white sink and super awesome painted plywood lower cabinet doors… notice the cabinet on the left of the sink – it was half the normal depth so there was horrible storage space inside… now, we’ve got a corner double sink… with detachable spray spout… and sweet custom-built angled doors underneath… you can see one of our sweet stainless steel light switch covers that match the appliances…

stove
you can really see the half-deep cabinet, when compared to the stove… the burner pans were horrible and there was a burn on the back by the dials… now we’ve got a sweet stainless model with a flat-top cook surface… it’s also a convection oven… and we’ve got the new wall-mounted microwave with a vent

under

so here you can see the awesome plywood cabinet doors… and why not make the shallow cabinet even suckier with three shelves instead of the standard two?? now, we have another DRAWER!!! and a cool James Bond pull-out hidden trash can…
refrigerator
before: super small smelly refrigerator after: super awesome oversized stainless version

leashes and one of our favorite new features – by the back door, our dog leashes have dog butt hangers!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Max is one month old!!

February 8th, 2010 - Max is one month old.

His milestones he has achieved are:

smiling , cooing, turning toward sounds, and turning away from bright lights.

At his one month check up he was 10 pds 14 oz and 22 1/4 inches. He is a growing boy!! He is in the 75 percentile for all three categories.

He is a very chill baby and hardly ever cries. He is still sleeping a lot, which Jordin thinks is kind of boring. We all love him very much!!

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