Merry Christmas!!

I was very prepared for Christmas this year, I made up my list early and gave it to my mom in late October and she was thrilled well, not really. Today turned out to be a great day. The weather has been nice despite the 6 days of straight rain last week, which I had no problem with, I love the rain. This morning was nice a chilly and my mom and I opened presents. My mom got me some great gifts, she got me the complete first season's of the "Vampire Diaries" and the "Office", the Harry Potter 2011 calendar :), some pajama shirts and comfy socks, a purse, a Wii fit for our Wii console, and some other goodies. It was interesting how we got our Wii console, we got it for free!!!, a friend of my moms gave it to us when she found it in her neighbors yard. I had opened all of those and we sat and ate some cinnamon rolls from Cinnobon (yum!!), I got up to go and put my presents in my room and came back to find two more surprises - an Ipod Classic and some new headphones! It was a really great surprise, I had been talking about getting a new Ipod for quite some time and then my mom could have my old one. We've had a few problems sorting out how to get two Ipods on one computer and spent about almost two and a half hours fixing it and only gotten it half fixed. But other than that it has been a great day. We ended our Christmas day with a nice steak dinner and rain :) Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)

Kitchen Painting

It's amazing how a new coat of paint can make everything seem so new and make everything so much better. In June my mom decided to repaint the kitchen, we thought it was time and we were getting tired of the yucky brown color. We debated for a while on the color because we had to chose a color that would cover the wall paper. So we came to a decision to paint the cabinets black and the wall white. We started off slowly because we did not know how it would turn out and there was a lot more prep work then expected. I would do some of the prep work during the week and my mom and I would paint on the weekends. The first thing we wanted to do was pull up the floor (we also decided to put on a new floor). We started on the area above and below the stove and it was turning out very nice, then moved onto the area below the sink. Once that was done we started on the cabinets above. It took us quite a while to do everything, by late October we had the area of the fridge to do which was a big area and the floor. Painting the wall white was kind of tricky, but we covered it with lots of layers of primer and white. We made it a goal to be done by Thanksgiving cause I was having friends over for dinner. A week before Thanksgiving my mom put the floor in and bought some nice curtains and we were done. We were happy the way it turned out and that we were finally done :)

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