Hola!

Benjamin had a fabulous time in Mexico. His parents were a little chilly the first couple days and had hoped for a little more sun, but the quality time with the Benj was perfect. Between the sand, the pool, the pineapple juice, and the swim up bar, Benjamin thought life in Cancun was grand.

And PS - Benjamin finally has all 4 of his "i" teeth now too.

Mexico 2011

What a week!

So we apologize for the lack of photographic updates to the blog.  It's been quite a week.  We survived the Great Israeli Countertop Scandal of 2008 and have suddenly found ourselves with a functioning kitchen!

The counters went in last Thursday.  The backsplash tile also went in last Thursday.  On Friday the plumber came to hook up the appliances. (Sadly, he had to come back on Saturday -- but that's neither here nor there.)  The plumber should be coming back on Monday to hook the water/ice line up for the fridge and to put our much-needed heat in.   At some point, the electrician needs to come back to finish the lights.  The hood also needs to be put up. We assume that's happening in the very near future.

But as you can see -- we've got a kitchen!  The pictures don't quite do it justice.

We have counters!

We apologize for the lack of pictures, but we are happy to report that we do in fact have countertops!

And, we love the last minute substitution more than the original one we picked out.

Fingers crossed that our appliances go in today. We will post pictures over the weekend!

It's beginning to look a lot like...

A KITCHEN!

So we've been a little delinquent on posting. But what a few days it's been!

The pictures don't really do it justice -- but the cabinets are all up and look great. It's really opening up the room -- and looks quite nice.



Above is the view from the living room through to the kitchen (yes, we are going to get a new chandelier and move it too!).



The empty space between the cabinets is where the range will go, and the empty box on the back wall where the microwave will go.



Newly framed out windows and real sills - we may not have real window sills anywhere in this house!



Dan is playing the role of the fridge here. There's been a slight glitch in the color of the side panels, but they'll fix it. No biggie!

Preview: We have appliances sitting in our dining room...

One more day this week -- who knows what sort of fun tomorrow will bring!!