beginnings

 

The kitchen has begun its surface remodel and we’re pumped! It is a 20 year old kitchen with outdated cabinets, no hardware, and terrible drawers. Rather than spend mucho bucks on new cabinets we are sanding, painting, and installing drawer runners and new hardware. Here I am checking out the kitchen for the first time.

The kitchen counters are loaded with items from the pantry as we’re doing one bank of cabinets at a time.

Below is section 1. The picture on the right features a microwave. At that point Mike was determining how to hang it.

   

More than half through section 1!

Beginning Section 2 required a tiny bit of demo since we’re rearranging the cabinetry and the refrigerator.

  

Carlsbad Camping

Last weekend we packed up the truck with coolers, a tent, bikes, and firewood for a first camping trip! We headed down to Carlsbad, a state park right on the Pacific Ocean. The campground is on a bluff overlooking the ocean – it was beautiful. We walked down to the beach and climbed over millions of rocks that had been washed shore. Later we went back to the site, stoked up the fire and had brats and of course s’mores for desert.

 

 

On Saturday our good friends Katieanne and Ryan came to join us. The guys spent time throwing rocks on the beach while us girls collected them! We played a very L-O-N-G game of phase 10 around a lantern and then struggled to make our campfire big enough to warm us up. All in all we had a great first camping experience we just a bit bummed about the chilliness.