What's up with us

Our kitchen is finally done. Actually, it's been done at least a week but I haven't updated it to the blog yet. Mike did a great job on the backsplash. It is travertine tile with accent tiles that are the same granite as the countertops. It looks really nice. In the pictures we didn't have all the outlet covers yet (they are travertine also) but they are all on there now.




In other exciting news, we have decided on Cabo San Lucas for our anniversary trip this year. We are going October 22-28 and staying at the Riu all-inclusive hotel. We plan on doing some deep sea fishing and maybe some diving and lots of relaxing by the beach and pools. And my cousin and her husband might come, too. We are really looking forward to it. October will be very busy for us. We are going to the White Mountains for a mountain bike race the first weekend, Rocky Point the second weekend and then to Cabo. Here is a picture of the hotel:
Can't wait....

Pround new owners of a motorhome

Well, we had thought about buying a new toy hauler for quite a while. But we decided a motorhome would make more sense for us. When we get a boat someday, we can haul it with the motorhome and camp at the lake. And we can take it to the dunes and haul our quads/bike on our flat trailer. We looked at some in Phoenix and were quite disappointed at the condition they were in. We had to get something older so that the price was decent, but we still wanted it to be in good condition. The minute we walked into this one we were really excited about how nice it was inside and how well it had been taken care of. It is smaller than what we were originally looking at but it was also cheaper and in good condition. We wanted something that would sleep "6" (which is really more like 4 adults or 2 adults and 4 kids). But it's just the two of us for now so this is plenty big for us. It has a walk around double or queen (not sure) in the back bedroom part and the dinette folds down into a bed which supposedly sleeps 2 people but really more like 1 adult or 2 kids. We are already thinking of lots of different places we want to go in our motorhome. Here are a few pictures. I don't think they do it justice but you can see what it's like inside.

San Diego

Well, I would post about Rocky Point too, but we lost the pictures. I didn't take very many since each day was full of laying on the beach or standing in the ocean (perfect way to spend 4 days). But, we had them saved on our external hard drive but I didn't burn a CD yet and now our external hard drive died. We have the worst luck with computer stuff. It won't turn on at all so we don't know if the company is going to be able to save our stuff off of it. We'll see. But Mike was able to recover my favorite Vegas pictures that got erased from our memory stick somehow (threw that one away and had to get a new one). But anyways, we visited Angie and Lonnie in San Diego over the 4th of July weekend and we had a great time. We didn't do the big stuff like Sea World, zoo, etc because I knew it would be crazy on a holiday weekend. Plus, we did those last time we went to San Diego. We wanted to just hang out, catch up and relax. And that's exactly what we did. We got there Friday and grabbed lunch. Then Mike and I took a nap since we had been up since 4am and I had worked the night before. That night Lonnie and Angie made a delicious dinner. Saturday Angie and I checked out the scrapbook store and the guys killed some time while we were there. After shopping, we went to a lighthouse (can't remember the name) up on the hill and went to a cool military cemetery there. Then we hung out at the house until the afternoon and we headed toward downtown. We had some great seafood at a restaurant and then went to a park down by the water. We spread out some blankets and hung out until the fireworks started. The fireworks were really cool. There were 4 different barges with fireworks and they were all going simultaneously. It was neat to see them all going off. Sunday Angie and I scrapbooked. Mike and Lonnie went a couple places, including the fire station so Mike could trade some shirts. Then that night we went on a dinner cruise around the harbor. It was very nice. The food was soooo good, plus cheesecake for dessert. The view of downtown at night was pretty. We really enjoyed the cruise. It was a perfect way to end our time there. Monday morning we got up, packed our things and headed home. And of course, here are some pictures.

Our kitchen

The kitchen is almost done! We still need to do the backsplash (we haven't decided exactly what we're going to do yet) but that's about it. I absolutely love it. It looks so much bigger and nicer. Mike did an awesome job on everything.




The granite black reddish-brown spots and veins of lighter colors. It complements the cabinets perfectly.

Remodeling progress

Just wanted to post a few pictures of our kitchen remodeling project. Mike has been very hard at work to give us a new beautiful kitchen.

BEFORE...


LAST WEEK...



NOW...




We already picked out our granite countertops and hope to have them in soon after we return from California. Mike has done a great job. Can't wait to see the finished product!