Spicy Cayenne

I really wish I could find my camera so I could show the world my fabulous kitchen. Finally, after months of talking about painting and renovating and finishing the basement, it has begun. Jason finished building our monstrosity of a garage on Tuesday. For those of you who have not seen the garage, it is HUGE! I like to refer to it as the barn, a neighbor asked Jason if he was building it for his mother-in-law to live in and the other day at lunch Tayah looked out the window and asked me, "mommy is that the garage or is that Costco?" It is ridiculously large if you ask me but, my husband is happy so I guess I'll let it go (it's taken me awhile to let go!). Anyways, once the garage was done, the task of going through the basement was upon us. What a job! Donna, you would be so proud of me. I sorted and boxed and purged and organized into the wee hours of Thursday morning and then again most of the day on Friday and it is done. Everything came up and into the barn - I mean garage :) and today Jason, my dad and Aubrey are busy working on drywalling the basement. Tomorrow my Grandpa will help with the taping which will take 3 days or so and then the fun stuff! I am in the process of making a final decision on paint colors and Tuesday I get to pick out flooring - I am one happy girl! I had picked my color (spicy cayenne) for the kitchen months ago and last night I watched it go from the little swatch I had been carrying around to up on the walls and it is gorgeous (that's gorgeous with a Brooklyn accent). It still needs another coat but I love it. Funny that deciding on the red was so easy but it's the tan that I am having such a hard time with. Seriously, is it really necessary to have a million and two shades or slight variations of one color? How is a girl to decide?! At the rate I am going the rest of the kitchen wall will look like a patch work quilt of all the different shades of tan out there!
Hopefully the camera will reappear soon, I'd also like to post some pics of Christmas. We had a great time with the kids this year and our families.
Well, that's enough slacking off for one day, back to work I must go.