It is almost Finished!

I love how open it is now.

A few filler pieces still needed and the toe kicks.

Breanna founds a new place to place

Breanna tryong to help screw the brackets on the drawer front

Building a cabinet

Day 2

Starting of Day 2

Breanna putting on gloves to Help!

OK now what?

Are we high yet. Contact cement on the back splash and wall.

2 sheets up 1 to go

Wall opening framed and 1st coat of mud

Austin, June and Breanna posing for the camera.

the back splash is finished.

We started the day with the following to be Accomplished: Frame in and mud the new opening, Put up the back splash and start flooring. Well 2 out of 3 is not bad. Thanks to Brian, Marcus and Gina for coming and Helping. And Thanks to my dad for making dinner for us tonight, it was nice not having to worry about it. We will hopeing get all the flooring finished tomorrow. Then we can spend the week building cabinets so that come next weekend we can set them and get the counter top and new sink and faucet installed. Then we should be back to normal.

Day 1 of Demoliation!

Before

Half way done

Just about done at the end of Day 1.

We start demolition today open the kitchen. I am so excited. Robert's brother Jeremy and Brian along with Brock came over this morning and started taking cabinets and breaking up the tile floor. all that was completed by about 3:30 and we were just going over the floor to make sure we got all the staples up so we can lay the laminate wood floors tomorrow. I went to go get dinner and Breanna from daycare and when I came back there was a hole in the one side of the Kitchen were we had discussed taking the wall dawn at a later time. While I was gone the boys decided they need to see what was in the wall. The entire wall can't come down unless we want to do some serious rearranging of a vent pipe for the basement so we will just have an opening but it will still be open to the living room.

Tomorrow we are hoping to get the wood floor done and the opening framed and sheet rocked, and then the back splash up on the walls. Then throughout the rest of the week we can continue building the cabinets and getting them ready to install next weekend. WISH us LUCK!.

THANKS BRIAN, JEREMY AND BROCK for everything you did today. We greatly appreciate all your love and support with this crazy project.

Check back later for more updates.

EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY!

Jolene Silcox Dennis

May 25, 1949 to

March 10, 1993

EIGHTEEN YEARS! It is hard to believe that it has been that long, but it has. I was almost 18 when my Mom passed away. After being in the hospital for a month she let go of the battle with AIDS. We only knew about it for such a short time but we knew that it was the best as we did not want to watch her to continue to suffer . We had already received about 12 years without knowing that the disease was there so we got to enjoy the time we had with each other without wondering “Is this the last time.”

To thinks that she has been gone as long as she was here for my life is a humbling thought. Sometimes it seems like yesterday that we were saying our goodbye’s in the ICU unit at Cottonwood Hospital and other days it seem like a life time. All the special moments she missed because she was taken from us too soon. She has always been in our hearts and as we celebrate those specials times like a wedding or a babies being born there is always the thought “I wish she was here”.

When Austin was about 3 he says to me one day “Mom I have freckles and they are kisses from heaven” I responded, “Yes, they are kisses from heaven from your grandma”. It was such a special moment that here was a little 3 year old being innocent to say something like that. I believe that each one of my kids was handed picked by my mom to be sent to us and that they know what a special lady she was.

I LOVE you Mom and not a day goes by that I am not reminded about you in some way or another, whether it is the way that someone compares me to you or just a memory of our time together good and bad. I miss you every day! I know you have been watching over us and guiding us throughout lives but at times I still wish you were here with us. I LOVE YOU!