Kitchen Update

For Christmas we were very lucky to get a new kitchen sink and 2 new faucets (I guess everyone realized how bad our old one was). We installed the sink and a faucet and took the other faucet back and bought kitchen hardwear. We also got new light fixtures and under-cabinet lighting. We're not done yet but I had to show off how good it looks with all the new stuff.

Money, money, Money!

Since August of 2007 (when we got married) we have been...ok, mostly Jake has been....collecting change in a 3 litter bottle. We are proud to say that we finally filled it to the top (or pretty close). After dumping it out and then sorting for maybe 20 min and then counting for about 45 min and then rolling for another 30 min we are glad to say we are a whole $326.47 richer! I took some pictures but it turns out they were all fuzzy (and really not that interesting) so I decided not to post them.

Gingerbread House

It's finally FINISHED!! As some of you know the Cohoon family had a Gingerbread House building competition. It was between Jake and me, Mike and Meagan, and Bobby and Emily. The deadline was Christmas Day and we had some of the neighbors come over and judge, that way they wouldn't know which was which. Jake and I got the "Most Edible" prize. Bobby and Emily got "Most Original" and Mike and Meagan won "Grand Prize"!

Front View

Back/Top View (that's a lake on the side)

Close-up of Top Side View

Our idea. It's a building somewhere in Russia.

Mike and Meagan's Gingerbread House. I haven't got any pictures of Bobby and Emily's but I will soon.

Family Time

This is our lovely Christmas Tree. You can't see the ornaments very well but that's ok, and don't worry we now have an angel on top.

On Wednesday Jake and I had my Dad, Cece, Mandy, William, and Mason over for dinner (Kayla had YW and got to go to temple square instead - we missed her). After dinner we were all just hanging out and I realized I don't get to see my siblings that often which is why I don't have many pictures of them and they get bigger every time I see them! William has a loose tooth and Mason can rollover now! Oh, and Mandy's taller than me (no fair!). Anyway, I got the camera out and here are some of the moments I captured:William Reading Cute little Mason Just Chillin'Mommy and MasonMandyAnd last but not least, Nala (our dog-for those of you who don't know....just kidding aunt suzette)

Kitchen

So my last post stated how messy the kitchen was and how I couldn't stand it. It was true. Not even 24 hours after that post I went crazy and cleaned the whole kitchen, cabinet doors or not. I organized my cupboards, cleaned out the fridge, swept, mopped, everything. It stayed clean the next day and then the day after that got messy again because we started painting some more. It's ok though because now it's clean again and the cabinets are all painted. We still need to paint the walls but I am so happy to have the cabinets done I had to put up some pictures.Jake's fabulous idea for painting the doors without having to put news paper everywhere. He put things under them (by things i mean boxes of cake or pasta, Tupperware, tool boxes, whatever he could find really. So we had a row of doors in our kitchen. It worked out pretty good and I only had to scape a little paint off the floor. TA DA!! CLOSE-UP (It's a little discolored in the picture)

Messy Kitchen

We are painting our kitchen cabinet's. What we thought was a cool idea we saw in the store turned into a big head ache and now a big mess. We saw a bathroom vanity in Lowe's and I fell in love with it so we decided we should paint our kitchen to look like it. Pretty easy right? That's what we thought. We still haven't figured out how they did it but there are a few spots on it that look "crackled" so that it is antiqued. No, it's not crackle, it doesn't look the same. Then Jake got the genius idea that they burned the paint with a blow torch and it dried really fast and that's what made it bubble. It was perfect and we decided that's exactly what they did. We went home and tried it...nope. It didn't work again. So after reading books, looking online, testing over and over I decided I didn't like it as much and we should just paint and stain them and forget about the stupid crackle. So that's what we did. It's been 4 days of painting here and there and we're only about half way done. Which is just fine and dandy except as many of you know I tend to be a clean freak (not that my house is always perfect but I try my hardest) and I get anxiety when things are a huge mess. My kitchen is a HUGE mess.
Our laundry room (below) aka cabinet painting station.
My fabulous idea of how to paint all the drawers at the same time and not have to empty them or have them spread out all over the house. I was very proud of myself for thinking it up.

Turkey Bowl!!

"It's Provo Sizzler vs Orem Sizzler. This is Huge! It's bigger than the Super Bowl or Daytona 500!" Says Jake Cohoon before he played in the Turkey Bowl Thursday morning.

For those of you who don't know, Jake works at the Provo Sizzler and Mike, his brother, works at the Orem one. Organized by Tim (another Orem worker and friend) they decided to see who was really the better Sizzler. Both teams gathered their best players and held two practices earlier in the week. I wasn't there for the Sizzler Turkey Bowl but the winning team (to Jake's disappointment) was the Orem Sizzler with a 3-0 score. Jake hasn't talked much about it but when I asked he said "We got slaughtered". After the big game others joined in the fun and that's what I got pictures of. They aren't great because it's hard to focus on people who are constantly running from side to side. It seemed like everyone had fun and I was glad that Jake said it was worth it because he's been in pain ever since.