Fall 2007

Here are some photos of Katy going to Blue Valley West's Homecoming 9-15-2007. I think she had a nice time, she and her friend Autumn said it was kind of boring, but I think they had fun anyway.

Happy 1st Birthday Chapin!!

Amy, Doug and Chapin were in town last week for a whirlwind trip to celebrate his birthday. They came by for dinner after visiting with Gma Curran in Olpe, we even got to baby sit him for a tiny bit too. He seemed to like Kelly so we tried to get them to take her, bad thing is she doesn't like kitties!!

Kitchen is complete!!

I just put the final touches on the paint over the weekend, it took about a week total, but the granite and new backsplash are great!! Granite is a lot more work than I thought it would be, so we bought a buffer to keep it shiny!! The only thing left is we need to put light oak blinds in, the white wood blinds are a little much with the red so I am thinking if it matched the woodwork, it might flow better. Thank you Three Men and a Hammer out of Grandview for the great work, as you can see below, they really changed our kitchen for us. The original photo of the kitchen is towards the bottom of all the photos.

Kitchen Remodel

We are finally getting the kitchen remodeled a bit. We are adding Uba Tuba granite, and a slate backsplash, I have no idea what it is named, not that it matters. Katy has her friend Cathie up from Dallas so it kind of got in the way of entertaining her while she was up here. See photos below. I just realized how/why I am not getting my photos with my postings, I promise I will get better at this. Denise

June 2007

June brought us an opportunity to visit the Lake of the Ozarks. We went down to Brian's grandmothers place in Laurie. Basically we fished as the boat was broken, and except for a day of shopping, Katy laid on the sofa, which by the way was kind of icky, all day and nite. Camryn caught a nice catfish, Madison caught a drum, and Brian caught a 2.5lb Bass. Denise had the "biggest catch" of the weekend as you will see in the photos below. Brian has left for Brazil for a nine day trip for work, Camryn has a few softball games left, Katy has a friend coming to visit for a week, and Amy, Doug and Chapin are coming in for his 1st birthday. Take care!! Denise

Happy Cinqo De Mayo

We just survived our first Cinqo De Mayo, I am sure I totally mispelled that. Too bad we celebrated it at Ruby Tuesdays, no Mexican, we had it Sunday nite since the girls had other plans and wanted to eat Mexican food. I have just finished painting the master bedroom, and will be putting some more house pics on here. Camryn had her first Softball game this weekend, they won. Go Coyotes. Look for pictures soon. Denise

1st blog for the Galeys

As many of you may know, we have relocated to Overland Park, KS from Dallas, TX. We have created this blog so it can be added to Chapin's "cousin's we know"!! We have moved into the new house and mom has been painting like a mad woman. We are getting ready to get the counters and back splash done in the kitchen, so I will be able to complete texturing and painting as soon as we get it all figured out. I will have to add photos so show the progress. Camryn will be playing softball this summer and Madison has been enjoying a very exciting season of Volley Ball with the Volley Girls on the Parks and Recreation league, she is actually on a select team, and not a rec team, that was a little surprising. I will have to add photos etc at another date. I need to take some!!