Trim, Christmas, New Kitchen Floor, Improved Office, Started Shower!

Well I haven't updated this since November so..I guess the timeline for these things is the beginning of December 2011 to the Endish of January 2012!

TRIM

First off - we have made some progress in the trim department (still have a lot to go) but it's looks really good! I love the old trim, it adds so much character to our cute house! :)

Next ...CHRISTMAS!!! I love Christmas and this one was pretty good! I didn't really take very many pictures but here are a couple.

Our Christmas Tree!

-we cut down one we had in our front yard and used it :), it was inexpensive and since we wanted to get rid of it anyway it worked out great, however it was the pokiest Christmas tree I have ever dealt with-

And for Christmas I got Todd a TV for our bedroom! We had a wall that was just perfect for one..not the most necessary ..but why get something necessary for Christmas :)

Todd got me lots of great presents too! He got me some awesome glass canisters for Flour, Sugar, Rice since we don't really have a great cupboard for them :) I put the vinyl lettering on and I think they turned out really cute! :)

KITCHEN FLOOR

Now the most exciting thing that has happened over this month is our KITCHEN FLOOR!!! It looks AMAZING! :) Todd tiled it and he did an awesome job ...as usual :)

SO in case any of you forgot what the kitchen floor did look like..here are some pics:

Oh..and we also put in a dishwasher and had to get a new counter top..thus the counter-topless cupboards below.

In order to tile the kitchen.. we had to have our kitchen appliances in the front room for a week and a half...that was fun :)

Next Todd put down Lathe and Thin Set (even just that made the floor look a billion times better :) )

Next he started laying the tile! :) It looks so good with the cupboards and the color of the walls!

Here is a close up of the tile (in all the other pictures it looks really brown but its not really)

Here's my man workin' his magic!

And the BEAUTIFUL finished product!!! The second picture shows the color much better :)

Hooking in the dishwasher! :) ...but this dishwasher ended up not working...the latch was broken...so they brought us a new one a week later (talk about disappointing lol oh well at least I have one now :))

The WORKING dishwasher :)

And our first time using it! As you can see Todd was pretty excited ... and so was I because HE was doing the dishes haha

So now we have a wonderful kitchen and I LOVE going in there :)

OFFICE

The other room that is practically finished thanks to my wonderful dad is our office :) for Christmas he made Todd a computer desk and me a craft desk! They look awesome :) and we were able to get everything in that room unpacked AND our FIRST pictures on the wall!

And FINALLY the SHOWER PAN :)

Todd's buddy came up and put in the shower pan in our upstairs bathroom-to-be and it looks pretty nifty :) it will look better once it's finished and tiled ..but it's a START! Also, we bought some tile this week and Todd is planning to tile the upstairs bathroom this week! Hopefully I won't slack off so much and there will be more pictures to come! :)

Here is the shower pan:

It's so fun to see it all coming together! :) Sometimes I like putting off blogging so I can watch it transform in minutes on the computer! :) ENJOY because I sure am :)