The kitchen is finally done!!!!

Hey everyone, this is Mitch. Well, after over two months of hard work our kitchen is finally finished. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Thanks a ton to my dad for helping with the tile and the countertops. Also, thanks to Dave for helping me hang all the beadboard and help with the countertops. I also have to thank my loving wife for cleaning up all the dust every time I made a mess and also for putting up with me when I'm frustrated that things aren't turning out perfect.
This story actually starts about 3 years ago when I bought the house. At that time the kitchen had this wonderful flowery look that you can see below.

Since the house was going to be a bachelor pad we couldn't have the super gay flowers on the wall, so we pulled down all the wallpaper. That was a lot of hard work. It was super hot too. We used a steamer to get the wallpaper off, so it was like working in a sauna. The crappy thing about wall paper is that half the wall seems to come off with it, so I had to patch and sand, and patch and sand, and patch and sand (you get the point) before I could paint it. After all that it was pretty much bare white walls until I got married and Lacey started her "nesting" period of making the bachelor pad into a cozy house. After some decorating the kitchen turned into what you see below.

I had been wanting to redo the kitchen for awhile. This all started one day when we just dropped by the tile store just to "look". When we got there they had some tile that we really loved for only $0.99 a sq ft. We couldn't pass it up, so we decided to get it, and things didn't stop until we had redone about everything. It saved a whole lot of money to do everything ourselves, which works great when your dad is a handyman. Well, after all that work, it has turned out really good. I really like it. There are still a few finishing touches I would like to do, but it is pretty much done. Thank goodness. I can finally relax a little when I get home from work instead of working on my 'other' job. Below are some pictures of how it turned out. Of all the things we did, it isn't the tile, or the new countertops, or the sink or fridge, but the little sprayer that came with our faucet is Lacey's favorite part.