The Nauahi's Wedding!!!

This past weekend our good friends Ryan & Courtney got married! I am so excited for them! It was a beautiful day (although atnight it did rain a touch, but that couldn't ruin their perfect day!) and they just looked so perfect together! Bonus- We got to hang out with them & some of our other friends who were in town the few days prior to the wedding! I can't wait for July when everyone will be here and we can all play!!
Here are some pictures of the festivities!

I love her all lace, ivory dress! She looked beautiful! (and my very own sis-in-law Christina did a fabulous job on her hair and flower piece!)

cute hubby eating the delicious Hawaiian food!

best buds!

After the reception a bunch of us got together for a little game of poker! It also just so happened to be Mike's birthday, so we compiled a little brownie and ice cream with a candle to celebrate!

And then Christina won ALL of the chips! (I on the other hand was the first one out.. booo)

What a fun weekend! And congrats to the happy couple! We can't wait to spend the summer together!! :)

New Decor

Some more updates made to our home :)

In the little "Nook" as I like to call it, I got a trunk at a really fun store called Grapel's, then I have some antique books around it. We then got a sweet chandelier at one of our weekly trips to Lowe's!

I decided to add a cute vinyl lettering quote that I found on clearance at Target!

"The greatest joy in life is to see those you love happy"

Before & After -Bathroom Edition-

Here are the changes we've made to our upstairs bathrooms.

Our Bathroom Before-

After-

We added the white cabinet above the toilet (from wal-mart), got the shower curtain and rug from Ross's, the white and black hand towels from target, and then painted the cabinets and added handles from Lowe's!

Guest bathroom (Jonathan's unofficial bathroom!)  Before-

After-

I love how the white in here makes a huge difference, it makes the bathroom flow together a lot better!

Our Biggest Project- the KITCHEN!

 We had big plans for this baby. I was never a fan of oak cabinets which is what we got with this house, as well as the white/non-matching appliances.  So our first plans were to sell the white appliances, except for the fridge which acts as extra storage in our garage and get all stainless steel appliances. Jonathan totally scored with finding a microwave for $100 on craigslist, a dishwasher for $100 on craigslist, and a fridge for $400 on craigstlist. We didn't have as good of luck with an oven range until we saw an ad for less than $400 stainless steel range at best buy, so made our goal of getting new appliances for $1,000 and is such an improvement in our house, and all it takes is a little patience to find the sweet deals. Once the appliances were in, I hated the oak cabinets even more! They completely clashed with the stainless, so we went on with the next step- painting the cabinets white! My parents have a white kitchen and I just think its so bright and happy so we started the process, and it took a bit longer than expected, but in the end it was definetly worth it, and we have a total kitchen transformation!!

Before-

I find the oak to just have a dated look to it, but that's just a personal opinion

During-

We painted all of the drawers and sides of the cabinets with brushes

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and took off all of the door fronts

I'm liking the difference already!

we had to clean all of the wood with a special cleaner before painting

Taking off more doors...

Then Jonathan & his Dad used a paint sprayer to get all of the door fronts done

the backs of the doors....

also, I didn't take any pictures of the part where we bought and put on handles for all of the drawers and cabinet doors, hope you like it!!

 and...AFTER-

So glad to have my beautiful kitchen!

To ad to Project-Kitchen, we decided to put up beadboard on the walls in the table area as well as swap out the plastic shingles over the sliding door for some tan curtains, so here is another {mini} before & after of that!

Before-

After-

[side-note] I got this "be thankful" sign at the DI for $1.00!! (originally $20.00  SCORE!)

I just love the beadboard look, I think it makes my kitchen a little more southern style/country kitchen. I'm so happy for the outcome, special thanks to my mom for fun ideas, and to my creative/handy/hardworking hubby who did basically everything!!