Baptism and Remodel

Sunday we went to Holy Disciples Parish here in Puyallup to witness my little cousins baptism! How fun! I had never been to a Catholic Mass, other than for Sean's Grandfathers funeral. This mass, was a bit different than that one. His Grandfathers church was gorgeous, beautiful solid wooden pews, stained glass, stone building, kind of dark actually, but not in a bad way. This church was brighter, no pews just chairs, and instead of kneeling we stood and sat. The Priest or Father, I'm really not sure what to call him because I heard both..but I think Father I heard more, anyways, he delivered a great message, added some humor into it and made it a lot of fun for my whole family- who none of us had been to Catholic Mass, except my Dad who grew up Roman Catholic, he said this mass was different than he grew up with too.
My cousin asked me to take pictures, which I tried, but because we could use no flash, and because there was a wall of windows behind them shining light on their backside, they didn't turn out to my standards..so we are doing a little mini session this week of him in his Baptismal outfit with his bible and things. :) Anyway, it was a great day, I enjoyed their church, and the most special event we got to witness!

We have been working on our kitchen..I have been in prayer for Patience because let me tell you, having a dis functional kitchen and a large mess is just rough for me. 

Ill include some pictures so you can see for yourselves. Im so excited for the finished product. Im enjoying how open my kitchen is without the top cabinets, we had custom cabinets that came with the house that were just HUGE..my new cabinets will be drop so I have a little space between the ceiling and top of the cabinet, creating a little more openess.

The start

Kids helping Vacuum up the mess :)

 No more top cabinets..now on to painting and removel of bottoms this weekend when Seans vacation starts!

My brother helping me paint..and talking on the phone..

 Before

After

 Still have lots of work to do, like painting the ceilings  that Im not doing the boys are, and painting my dining room. Our house is painted in a color called Navajo White, but against WHITE it looks DIRTY and its driving me NUTS! And let me say, I absolutely despise Knockdown wall texture!!!!

Coconut Salt Water Taffy

Mister is one busy baby inside his little residence. I don't remember either Siara or Silas being this busy, but I love it. I love that reminder, Mom Im growing, Im doin good in here! :)
I'm pretty sure, at this time, we are decided upon the name Sawyer. Its such a good fit with the other babes. But of course, we could change our minds :) Silas and Siara are both calling my belly Sawyer, or baby brother/brudder when they want to give him snuggles. Silas tries to spread my belly button open so that he can see the baby..makes me laugh every time. He looks into my belly and says 'Hi baby brudder!' Then gives my belly a hug and runs off. Siara asked me the other day how the baby got in my belly, Uhh..I dont want to go there yet, so I told her God put him there for us(Which, he did, but you know what topic I was avoiding with my almost 5 year old). She didn't question anything else, simply an OK and off she went.

We went to the Ocean over this last weekend to visit with my Grandparents, my Grampa had surgery on a stomach hernia so he hasn't been able to lift anything until March 8th, so Sean did a few things for him while we were there. We went to the candy store, Sean and Siara's favorite store, and Siara had this great idea to get her Daddy some Coconut Salt Water Taffy. Sean hates coconut. I found it funny that she was wanting to pull such a prank on her Daddy, but I helped her make sure she got her little mission accomplished.

We are going to Lowe's on Sunday after my little cousin Luke's Baptism, (Im excited, I have never been to a Catholic Baptism, and my cousin asked Shayna and I do take the pictures, so Im double excited of course ;-) 

Anyway, we are going to order our Cabinets, Sink, Faucet, all that good stuff we need to start our kitchen remodel. I'm a bit nervous for the chaos, but, it will be so worth it in the end. I cant wait for the finished product. Sean is on vacation from the 18-22 so we will start taking down some of our cabinets this weekend, and the rest next Friday night so we can repaint and then hang the new cabinets over the weekend, have the counter top guy out on Monday and install the counter tops by Wednesday. One of the perks of Sean getting to know his customers is we are getting a screaming deal on counter tops from a guy on his route. I'm very thankful for this, since obviously we are on a budget!