Kitchen Drama and Random Pictures

This is our kitchen.  We've been talking big about painting the walls and sanding/painting the cabinets for months now to make it look a little more up to date, and a couple of weeks ago we finally started acting on it!

(Before)

We were the perfect paint pickers, going by the book...we went to Lowes and looked at a bunch of sample cards, bought a sample of the paint, and put a patch of it on every wall in the room and left it up for about a week to make sure we liked it after it dried and in every different lighting situation.  We ended up liking the color, it was this dark brownish-beige and should look great with the dark chocolate brown we're doing the cabinets and the red curtains, so we went and got a gallon of the same exact thing and went to work!  You can imagine our dismay when after all of that to do we painted about 1/4 of our kitchen and realized it was going on PINK!  So we finished up what we were doing and said we shouldn't judge it til the next day when we saw it dry a little darker and in different lighting and whatnot.  Nope, still very pink!

The next day I took the faulty gallon back to Lowes and had a very nice chat with the manager which ended with him telling me to pick out a whole new color for free farther down on the brown-beige spectrum so we avoid the pink incident again :)  The new color was a success and half of our kitchen is painted, yay!  I'll post more progress pictures next week and hopefully we'll start the cabinets next weekend too so I can show the final product.

Now that I'm done rambling on about pink paint, here are some random pictures from this week...

Emily got some new dress up clothes for Christmas so she decided to try some on and give me a little fake performance with some twirls and microphone action:

Alex was in the kitchen making his famous deep-dish pizza while Emily was performing.  Naturally when he realized I was taking pictures he ran in to show off some dough tossing for the camera:

One afternoon I was tired of seeing a curtain of hair in front of Emily's beautiful eyes so I stuck it up in a bun.  She was so excited and made sure to tell me how much she loved her "round ponytail"!