Kitchen

While Rich was gone last week I decided to take on a few projects... They were pretty small projects like sorting his socks, replacing a few door knobs but there was one that wasn't so small. I decided to paint the kitchen. !!!! Sounds easy enough, right? Yep, it sounds easy but it was not actually easy. I had Amir with me while I did it. It took approx. seven hours, divided into two days to finish. No our kitchen is not big. But I had to keep repainting where there was a hand print and the occasional bum print. *sigh*

I had to have my brother come help me move the refrigerator and the stove so I could paint behind them. That was also hard to do with Amir around. Amir LOVES Sami and all he ever wants to do while he is here is play, play, play!

But we finally got it done and here are a few pictures:

[before]



[During..]

[After..]





The color is "Native Soil"... It looks great!!

Sami

My brother Sami FINALLY got his mission papers in last week and he got his call back a few days ago.. He is going to London, England the end of May. WOO! Everyone is really excited for him. Everyone put a guess in on where he was going, in my mom's case, where she WANTED him to go. I guessed England, english speaking. Sami made fun of me for saying it and BAM! That sure blew up in his face (muah haha!)

I'm personally extra excited because he's got so many girls that like him its insane. I'm happy he will get away from that for a while. Plus, he'll have to be on his own and make his own food... Most of the time anyway.

Cute Boys

Last week I spent some time with an old friend from school, Mandi. I haven't seen her since her baby shower! We were last in school together SEVEN years ago!!!! Where does time go? She has a little boy who is about a year younger than Amir. They were so cute together:

I was looking through some old pictures of when I was about 12 (And Mandi had to have been 10 or 11) when we were in dance together. HA! I know Mandi would totally kill me if I posted those pictures on here so I will refrain... All I will say is that they are super hilarious.

My sister goes to the same studio that we went to and they have pictures of every dancer that ever performed. So they had those pictures up on the wall. Thats right Mandi.... We are displayed for everyone to see!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!

Family <3

I love my family :) I'm so happy to have them.

Rich is the best husband ever! <3

The cutest boy!

My boy & I.

Washer & Dryer

Today my washer quit on me. It has been a champ! We had it for about 2 years. We got it from my sister in law who had it who knows how long before us. Yes, we did have to fix it three or four times but it never fully quit until today. As of now it will not spin so the water just drains out leaving the clothes inside it completely soaked and still not clean.

Since it is not fixable (& really who wants to fix it again anyway? Not us!) and we want to cut or utility bills a little bit we decided to go all out and get a brand new washer and dryer!
** I would like to stop and say how much I love my husband, he is awesome! **

[Picture is from the Sears website]

We got front loading, king size Kenmore washer and dryer. They are going to be delivered on Saturday. Needless to say, I am super excited! I'm looking forward to being able to wash ALL of our towels in one load instead of two! And being able to wash our comforter at home instead of either shoving it in and hope it washes (it usually took 3-4 washes to get it clean) or taking it to the laundromat. There is also a specific feature that pretty much sold me on it... The lock feature. Now when I'm not using it I can lock the buttons so no matter what Amir puts in there (cats, toys etc) he cant actually turn it on. Hooray! No more anxiety about finding a dead cat in the dryer.. WOO!