Design on a Dime

At the end of July I decided to give my kitchen cabinets a makeover. I have been thinking about it since we moved into the house and when I finally accepted the cabinets were not going to paint themselves, I dove into the project. I didn't get any before pictures, but I found this one I took of the kitchen just after we moved in.

Here is what it looks like today...

We have not put the knobs on yet, accept this one on the left of the microwave.

I am pretty proud of myself, I think it turned out pretty good. I have to give some credit to my dad who gave me the confidence to do this. There wasn't a summer or holiday weekend growing up that we weren't knee deep in a project around the house. I guess he knew someday I would buy a bank owned home that needed a lot of work, or maybe he just liked to torture his kids...
thanks anyway!

Lake Tahoe

We threw the kids in the van and headed up to Tahoe Saturday for a little vacation away from the valley heat. We were not sure what we were going to do, but once we found this beautiful beach, we were hooked. The kids love sand so they were in heaven.

The water is pretty cold, but not as bad as I was expecting. We got in to about our knees. Megan a little deeper... so she could keep up with our knees.

Austin just sat in the sand playing with his bucket all day. There was so much sand all over him... I'm so glad I brought my baby powder.

It was such a beautiful day we didn't want to leave. Below: we enjoyed our picnic lunch. Austin was so proud to be sitting at the table like a big boy with his brother.