10 months

Yesterday, Taryne celebrated her 10 month birthday. How did this child get this big this fast? I have no idea! She is teething, walking small amounts at a time...the most she has continuously walked is about 4-5 feet. She is babbling all the time and is in to EVERYTHING!!! I love her curious nature and I love teaching her about the world around her.

Here are a few pics to commemorate her 10 month birthday....

Until next time...Gig'em!

One anniversary and two wedding showers...

This past weekend we had an anniversary dinner and two wedding showers to attend. I have to say, it was a very busy and long weekend, but we had fun at all the events. If you read this blog on a regular basis you know that we have been super busy with home improvement projects. In some ways it was nice to get away from all the remodeling for a few days, but it was a very busy weekend so there was no opportunity for resting.

On July 5th, Kyle's grandparents, Roy & Bernice Weinheimer, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! Wow! So this past Friday, the entire family (Kyle's mom's side of the family is HUGE and that is just the siblings) had dinner at El Maguey in Fredericksburg to celebrate this amazing milestone. It was great to see everyone and look at the great wedding pictures from 60 years ago.

Saturday evening we attended a couple's wedding shower for Kyle's cousin, Jetta and her fiance' Chad. They had great food and it was fun watching everyone compete in washers, horseshoes and 42.

On Sunday, I helped host a shower for Jetta. This shower was a "Girls Only" shower and it was beautiful. We held the shower at Grape Creek Vineyards just outside of Fredericksburg. It helped that Jetta works there and was able to get us the room since they no longer rent it out for functions. We had about 50 people in attendance. This was a display shower so all the gifts arrived unwrapped and were beautifully displayed for all to see.

The food was amazing. There were so many delicious things made by the hostesses...I am going to have to get some of these recipes! We had a chocolate fountain, fruit, veggies, cookies, sandwiches, dips, cake squares and bars.

These were the best chicken salad sandwiches and I am pretty picky when it comes to chicken salad...there were even apples in it and I loved it...I really need to get this recipe.

Cake squares and apricot almond bars...I am not a huge apricot fan and these were yummy!

Pimento cheese sandwiches...I love these, but apparently when you make them at home, they don't taste as good as they do when they are cut into little triangles and served at a shower...

These are the cookies I made...

The room where we had the shower...the table decorations were beautiful!

The gift table at the beginning of the shower...there were many more gifts by the end.

We had a pretty good spread for the shower...

The "sign in" area...I also made the invitations for the shower.

We were absolutely exhausted by the time we got home Sunday night, but it was fun!

Until next time...Gig'em!

The Unorganized Organized Closet...

I have cleaned and organized this closet several times in the past week...I guess I will have it on my "To-Do" list again...

Until next time...Gig'em!

Girly girl...

I am definitely not a girly girl. Well, I am more a girly girl now than when I was a kid. I hated dresses and anything "girly". Now I don't mind some of it...not too much anyway.

When I was pregnant with Taryne, I insisted no pink mostly because I didn't want an overload of pink. Not that I didn't like it or mind it. She does have her fair share of pink things and that is okay. I have a hot pink luggage set...which is great by the way when flying.

Today I made Taryne a maroon and white tutu. I have seen these in the mall and I really didn't want to pay the price they were asking so I decided that I can do this and for much less. And I did...

Until next time...Gig'em!

Kitchen Cabinet Makeover Day 2...

Okay, today we painted and painted and painted!! We got up early and went to Lowe's to get paint. We decided on white. I have to say I never dreamed this kitchen could look this big! We thought we could get by with two coats of paint, but it really needed a third.

All the cabinets on the sink side of the kitchen are finished!! Whoohoo!! All the cabinets on the stove side of the kitchen need one more coat. Not bad for a days work. The drawers also only need one more coat of paint. We haven't touched the doors yet. That is a project for tomorrow.

Kyle also neatly laid out all the brass colored hinges from the doors and spray painted them a nickel color to match the new knobs we still need to buy. We could have easily spent over $250 on just hinges alone if we bought them new.

My goal tomorrow is to get all the painting finished...even the trim in the breakfast area!

Let me leave you with a few pics of the cabinets from today...I know, it is hard to tell what we did since the Kilz and the paint are both white.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Kitchen Cabinet Makeover Day 1...

Today we started the crazy task of painting our kitchen cabinets. We have great custom built cabinets in our kitchen, they just look like they are still in the early '90's when this house was built. Our original plan was to sand and stain the cabinets. However, when we started looking into it, we decided that was just way too much work. So we decided to paint.

We started the day by "washing" the cabinets and trim in the breakfast area with this product called Krud Kutter. We got the bottle of it from our neighbors...they used it when they painted their cabinets and they said it worked great. This product cleans and "sands" the area so it is ready to paint. This process took longer than we thought...it was just very time consuming.

Kyle spend the morning and early afternoon numbering and removing all the doors to the cabinets. We have SO MANY doors! He also removed the knobs and hinges so they are ready to paint. When we get to it...sometime this week.

Once everything was clean and ready to go, we started painting the Kilz primer on the trim and cabinets. It took all afternoon and part of the evening. I know we have a big kitchen, but I guess I didn't realize just how big the kitchen really is in this house.

Our original plan (once we decided to paint) was to paint a dark chocolate brown on the cabinets that would sort of mimic the stain color we wanted. After seeing the kitchen cabinets all nice and white today, we are seriously rethinking the color. Since we might be selling our house soon, we decided to go with white because we feel it is more appealing to a larger number of people versus the dark brown.

Here are some pics of the day...

Tomorrow we will start painting. Our goal is to get this cabinet makeover completed this weekend if possible. Thank goodness we have Monday off to work on it, but I think it will spill over into the week a little...hopefully not too much. I need my kitchen back to bake about 100 cookies for a shower next weekend.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Visiting Papa...

On Tuesday, after many years of pain and other attempted remedies, my dad had knee replacement surgery. I know in the long run he is going to be so glad he finally did this and wonder why he didn't do this sooner.

Everything went well with the surgery and he is doing well. Taryne, Charlotte, Zach and I went to visit him yesterday in Round Rock at the hospital. I have to say, that is a very nice hospital. And the neat thing about it is the clinic is attached. So you basically go to the same building to see your doctor and to the hospital.

Here are a few pics of Taryne with her Papa...

Taryne was checking out the pudding that came with Papa's lunch...

Taryne finally got a taste of the pudding...she loved it!

Until next time...Gig'em!