The birthday boy. His teacher aways makes a big fuss about birthdays. It's great fun! 
Thanks to Amber for the idea for the easiest birthday cake ever. It made great cupcakes for class too! 
My sweet Six year old! I can't find any really good pictures of the ceiling before we started so this will have to do. Yucky, grease covered flouresent lighting.
Here's the lights we tore out.
Here's the lights we tore out.
Demo begins. 
And keeps going. I thought I could handle anything. And I did for the first few weeks, then it got old. I'm still cleaning up drywall dust. It got into every cupboard! 
But it was so worth it! We put in this awesome crowne molding and strung lights up behind it. It so soft and nice. Plus Greg and Dad put in canned lighting in the rest of the room, so now I can actually see while cooking! Greg made the opening much larger than it had originally been. 
Ain't she pretty!! I'm a spoiled woman. Now I just have to remember that until we have time to fix everything else!! 
And just when you think you're finished..... Greg decided to patch the hole from the old gas line into the kitchen and we found more than a hole. Water had been leaking in through the exhaust vent and running down the wall. Oh, Joy! Don't ever say what next. 
Before the kitchen project, we finished painting in the living room. We had painted backwards, bottom first because that was what I could reach by myself. I made Greg take a picture to prove I actually helped. Frightening. If I just looked out those windows at the deck on the other side I was fine. But kids climbing on the bottom of that ladder was just terrifying!!!
