Photo of the Day--Taylor and Kyle Gann

Taylor and Kyle Gann--my great friend Michelle's children. This was just a few weeks ago celebrating rascally Kyle's birthday. He is a rascal! He just kept asking Michelle who all was going to come to his birthday celebration and when asked what he wanted for his birthday he first said nothing but then was more honest and more Kyle saying--MONEY!! At the little party and after the meal and cake, typical Kyle: "where's my presents?!!" Cute, cute, cute kids!!

Remodel--Kitchen

Here's Grant working in the kitchen. Not sure but I think he's getting some of the parquet flooring loose. I'll need to upload some of that process photos too. It was quite the arduous chore! There was parquet flooring securely glued to the kitchen, small dining, mudroom, utility area and pantry. All of us worked for days getting it removed using saws-alls. My carpel tunnel gave me an absolute fit. We were all sick to death of it by the time we got through!

Kitchen during the remodel. We completely gutted it--removing all the cabinetry, tile counter tops, parquet flooring and the lighting.

Another angle of the kitchen during the remodel of 2005. That's very enthused Grant ready to work!

And the kitchen after we'd moved in September 2005. The lights were yet to be redone but it essentially looks like this today. Master Craft did the cabinetry. I haven't mentioned before but we put in hardwood floors throughout the ground floor except for the bathrooms and kitchen and mudroom. This is stone tile here. And that's Corian counter tops--love them. I'm not crazy about my chairs at the bar and we've been looking for decent replacements for them for three years now! Don't want to spend a fortune on them either--wanting something rustic looking with metal and cloth cushions for seats..... we'll find just the right chairs one day!