The Painting Has Begun!

Well my goal this weekend was to get the kitchen painted and finished and I am happy to report that WE DID IT!!!  I started edging yesterday afternoon during the football game and then our friends Titus and Christina came over for dinner and helped us finish it up!  Here are some pictures of our new red "wine themed" kitchen with our pictures hung and everything!  I am SO excited!  :)

Here are the pictures of the kitchen before we started painting...

Let the painting begin!

Titus decided to try the paint out for dessert!

Christina the monkey climbed up on the counters and fridge to get the areas over the cabinets!

And here we go...drumroll please...OUR KITCHEN!!

We are very happy with our finished product and are hoping to get the dining room done next weekend.  We are going to do a striping effect in there so hopefully it will go smoothly!

A Wonderful Gift...

I have come to truly believe that although we LOVE the children that we work with each day, one of the greatest gifts you can give a teacher is a "duty free lunch".  At our school we usually get these lunches once a month where we get to go back and eat lunch in one teachers classroom together while other staff members watch our students at lunch.  Today my grade level got the ultimate gift...a duty free lunch OFF campus where we actually got to go off campus for an hour and eat lunch like real adults!  :)  We chose to go to McAlister's Deli and we sat outside and just enjoyed each others company for a whole hour, it was absolutely wonderful!  Some of the wonderful PTA parents at our school covered our classes while we were gone and I think we are each very thankful to them and hope that they will come back very very soon!