Lately I've Been Trippin'

The past couple weeks we've been tripping with my family. We stopped in Utah (where I got to celebrate my birthday!) on our way to California for Reece's graduation from Marine Corps boot camp. We had a lot of fun seeing friends and family who were able to make time to see us. and we are so proud of our Marine!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] After the graduation ceremony[/caption]

Here are a few pics from our short stop at Mission Beach.

Anyway, before we left, we painted our kitchen and dining room floors. Yes! We did! I looooooove them!

[caption id="attachment_1204" align="aligncenter" width="731"] See that awful cement pad? We have no idea why it's there. It goes all the way down through the floor to the ground outside. Now it blends![/caption]

We used a porch and floor polyurethane tint-able oil-based paint by Glidden.  So awesome! Because the polyurethane is already in the paint, your paint doesn't yellow! I might have to re-do Caeden's room because his turquoise floor (we used a latex paint) got a yellow tint as soon as I put a poly coat on it. Boo!

I also chalked my fridge! With colored chalkboard paint! I had some leftover from a project and was all, hey! Paint the fridge!

It's currently the only Christmas "decoration" we have up right now...we haven't had time to put up a Christmas tree yet! Stay tuned for more kitchen awesome-ness happening soon!