Darcie's 26th Birthday Party

For Darcie's birthday this year, we got together with some friends and went out for dinner. Darcie got to choose where to go and of course she went with Mexican cuisine. She loves it. She could probably survive on eating authentic Mexican salsa for the rest of her life. She makes her own authentic salsa, the type you'd get served down in Mexico, but i still prefer the store bought stuff. The food was really good. We had a good time and some good cake too that Mandy and Mason made for her. From left to right is Justin, Mason, Jayme, Patsy, Mandy, Darcie, and me.

Patsy, Mandy, Darcie, Me, and Mason

Homewarming Party

We wanted to have some friends over for a home warming party but wanted to wait until the kitchen was done. Here's a few pic's of the shananigans. We were playing Cranium. The people in the first picture are Marcus (Derek's friend going to UofT), Derek, Stacey, Mandy, Darcie, then Patsy with the blonde hair. We think Stacey looks like Laura. Hard to tell in that photo. There's also a couple of pictures of the living room/dining room from different angles than before.

Kitchen is finally done

Well its taken a lot of nights and weekends and some hard work but we've finally got the kitchen completed to the point where it's functional. We finally got the last coats of paint on the cupboards so we could unpack all of our kitchen stuff and use it like a normal kitchen. It felt good when we got to that point. We also had to finish the cupboard doors which we cleaned, sanded, added molding, painted, and added hardware to. We got the molding from Home Depot and had to reduce the thickness of it with a table saw. We put a small chamfer on the edges to finish it off a little more. We were able to go to Plas-Tech a couple times to use a lot of tools like a table saw, nail gun, and router which we were very fortunate to be able to use. Made working on the cupboard doors a whole lot easier. We put some nice satin nickel finish hardware on for knobs and hinges. When we were putting the cupboard doors on one at a time, it felt so good cause we could see it coming together and we could see the end was near. We're very happy with the way it turned out. The only major thing left in the kitchen besides laminate flooring in the future is the backsplash. You can see a picture of what we'll be using. We think it'll finish it off nicely. The color of the cupboards is a greyish silver color but looks kind of white in the pictures. If you look at the older post "Sorry it's been so long", you can see some good pictures of what it looked like before.