We are going to Disney World

One of my Mom's lifelong dreams has been to go to Disney World with all 6 of her kids. Since she had a pretty big b-day this year we wanted to do something extra special...so for her 50th B-day we decided to surprise her with her long overdue trip. The family is super excited and ready to hit the plane. I am sure we are going to take way too many pictures so you will have to check back again next week to see how much fun a large group of adults with a few kids can have at Disney World.

Utility Room Project

Somehow with all that is going on right now we have been able to work on a house project. I think it was out of necessity since we had food storage in the utility room and the office. We are probably about 80% done with the project, but I think we are done for now.

We couldn't just put regular cabinets in because they wouldn't be deep enough or hold enough weight so we had to find something that would work. We found some heavy duty shelving units that said they hold around 2000 lbs. That is about all I could fit in the space anyhow so we went with them. I must admit that I was surprised how expensive metal shelving is, but we are going to make it look great and it is definitely needed.

Here is the food that we currently have that needed a place to live.

Here is the metal shelving unit. With the wood it is about 2 feet deep. Much deeper than standard upper cabinets.

And this is what it looks like today. They have about 1000 lbs on them right now.

We still need to make and hang the doors and stain everything and add the hardware and replace the current light globe with a recessed light so we can open and close the cabinet doors. So maybe I was wrong before...maybe we are about 70% done. I just hate to think that we only have a C on the project so far.