We're floored

Evan spent all weekend putting in our new kitchen floor!

The floor project is not quite done -- a few more tiles to go. But in the main part of the kitchen, we no longer have to dance across grubby old uncleanable linoleum. It is...

... a laminate that looks like slate!

I'm not sure the photo does it justice -- but in real life, it's nice. There's a texture to it, and it fits in nicely with the rest of the kitchen style. So I am excited. Combined with the fact that we had plumbers here on Friday installing the dishwasher [cue angels singing from somewhere over the rainbow], I feel as if Christmas came early.

That feeling is perhaps doubly strong since we got six inches of snow in the past two days (I think it finally stopped tonight), making our corner of the world look like a winter wonderland....