The Journey to Our New Kitchen!

Tim and I have been so blessed over our short lifetime together with some pretty incredible things. The most important of these blessings has been the blessing of God making a way for us to have a relationship with Him through the death and resurrection of His Son. The next most important has been my wonderful husband. I couldn't imagine doing life without both of them! Well, God has given us another one of those amazing blessings through the help of our family. My sister, Jennifer, brother-in-law, Chauncey, Khaki and Cohen came out and helped us make some incredible head-way on our house. To say that it was one of the nicest things that someone has ever done for us feels like an understatement. On top of that, they are coming back out in about a week to help us finish a lot of the rooms that we have started.

This picture shows a glimpse of the work that Tim put into our home while we were waiting for Jennifer & Chauncey to come out. Tim closed off a door-way to the hallway, closed off a door-way leading to the back porch, tore out the furdown, replaced all of the sheet-rock, re-did a large portion of plumbing, and, with a lot of help from Lloyd Polk, grounded all of the plugs and added some new electricity! Nothing really stayed the same in the kitchen, including the flooring, but it was definitely worth it.

To say that this was an easy process would be a lie. There were times when we both really thought we would never get out of our insulation-exposed box we called a kitchen. However, God was so gracious to help us out. We had a temporary kitchen set up in the form of a microwave, grill and the ever-important coffee-maker (Thanks Mike & Pam!). It was definitely chaotic. Unfortunately, our computer went down and lost some of the really nitty-gritty pictures, but these give you a little glimpse of what we had. Next post shows how it was really worth it and all of the amazing ways that Jennifer & Chauncey helped us out! Here are some pictures to preview all that they did!