Wendy's blog wants you to help our friends!

Hello friends,
We're asking for you to help out a friend of ours. One of the TV stations in town is running a contest to give away a kitchen makeover. Josh and Careese have been selected as one of 5 finalists, and the final decision will be made by online voting. Below is Josh's entry that kind of explains why they need a new kitchen. Please read it--it's hilarious.
To vote, go to www.newschannel10.com and you will have to create an account. Then you can scroll down the main page and click on the "Living Spaces Ultimate Kitchen Makeover" link. Look for "Josh Wood". You can vote once per account per day until October 20th. If you'd like me to send you an e-mail reminding you to vote each day, just let me know and I'll be glad to. Thanks so much for helping our friends!Wendy

Josh's Top 10 Reasons the Woods need a new kitchen:
1. My wife is a stay at home mom with three kids ages 4, 2, and 1. She is pregnant with our 4th(and final, in case you were wondering), due in April. Due to another series of events, we are also in the process of adopting 2 more children (ages 2 and 1). Come April, we will have 6 kids ages 5 and under. It would be AWESOME to bless my wife pregnant wife with a finished kitchen.

2. We ripped off the original 1969 laminate countertops and realized shortly thereafter that new countertops did not fit in the budget. We set the old countertops back in their place. I am surethat there are 40 year old countertops out there that have a nice vintage look to them. This is not the case here. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at them.

3. The cook-top……Since countertops did not fit in the budget, our cook-top is sitting on/in an old door that we cut tofit for a countertop. It is not as decorative as it sounds. Also, we accidentally knocked over amixer on our cook top and cracked it a bit. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at it.

4. Apparently, the previous owners of the home built the cabinets to hold an oven and a half.Unfortunately, there is no such thing as an oven and a half. So, we have a small single ovensitting in a large opening. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at it.

5. The ice maker ordeal……We put an under-the-counter ice maker in our kitchen. It kept flooding our cabinets and kitchen.After having 3 companies look at it, and after a few expletives, it now functions as an empty tincan holder. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at it.

6. The previous owners of the house had apparently done some remodeling of their own. Wetook down the oddly-placed ceiling fan in the middle of the kitchen and replaced it with a veryfashionable dangling interrogation-type bulb. We aren't quite sure what to put there….probablydue to my lack of creativity when it comes to design. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at it.

7. We peeled off all of the old linoleum back-splash in preparation for putting up some newstuff. Life has happened and we haven't had time to do so. As a result, our current "back-splash" is the remainder of some sort of green bonding substance from the sixties. I am about80% sure that it isn't toxic. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at.

8. I started to build a raised bar onto the counter. Life happened and now we have a skeleton of a raised bar. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at it.

9. When we bought the house, the cabinets were a nice textured ivory color. We soon realizedthat they were actually white after scrubbing almost 40 years of filth. We repainted and glazedthem (by "we", I mean my wife and mother-in-law, I don't understand glazing). After a few yearsthe paint is beginning to chip (mainly due to the kids spilling things on the cabinets, banging onthe cabinets with drum sticks, chewing on the cabinet doors, banging the cabinet doorstogether, and crashing their tricycles into the cabinets). My pregnant wife is tired of looking at them.

10. I may have mentioned this already, but it is worth repeating….my wife is pregnant. We will likely have a reality-show sized family by April. My pregnant wife is tired of looking at thekitchen. Please bless her with this!