Naomi's Kitchen-kinda long...sorry

This happened actually a few weeks ago, I'm just slow on posting it. It goes like this: Deric's sister, Naomi, had a kitchen. A very partical board made cabinets, beat to pieces, kitchen. We were out there one weekend and Deric was looking at it and said, "Naom, you need new cabinets". Naomi, of couse, agreed but said they couldn't afford it. Deric thought he could make her a kitchen for around $2,000 and told her to start saving and that he could probably do it around Christmas time. So an agreement was made, Deric would build her new cabinets and countertops, re-design her kitchen and have it finished by Christmas time. haha oh the tricks my husband had up his sleeve.....This is her kitchen as they were tearing it out to put the new one in...but you can tell, it's pretty old. So on with the rest of the story.... Deric had decided he wanted to surprise Naomi with this kitchen (she had full confidence in him and so let him take over the whole design, layout, color, wood type, etc). He actually was building it all through May in hopes of having it finished by her anniversary in June. The kitchen was finished being built and was just ready to install. We made plans to go to Roosevelt the weekend of her anniversary and Deric informed his mom and I that it was our job to keep Naomi out of her house for 2 days. Ya right...she lives like 15 minutes away from Deric's parents' house. Anyway, we came up with a full-proof plan:or so we thought. We were going to plan a "Girls Weekend" and have all of the girls in the family come out, no guys allowed! They were all going to have a "Guys Weekend" up at Naomi's house. Wahoo! We figured it out! So Deric and Jason (his brother) loaded up the cabinets in Jason's work van (surprisingly they all fit) and we headed out to Roosevelt. We didn't want Naomi even seeing Jason's van or she would be suspicious, so we parked it on the backroads and Jason jumped in with us and we drove to their parents house where Naomi was already (we had to wait for her to get there and she took FOREVER). So soon after we arrived, Deric and Jason left...too much women talk I guess. And the plan was in action. After 2 days of long, hard gruesome pampering, some shopping, lots of junk food, girl talk and a few close calls, we finally allowed Naomi to go home. (saying we were going to crash the guys' party before we went shopping). And this is what she walked in to.....
She was COMPLETELY shocked and had NO idea they were installing this kitchen the whole time. So the rest of the story goes like this....Deric told Naomi (in a not so subtle way) that he needed what money she had already saved up to pay for the cabinets since his work just paid for it. She handed over like $1100 and said she would pay him the rest as soon as she got it. He counted it out and handed like $600 back and told her it was her change. She was so confused! So really what happened was that some of Deric's family pitched in and paid for most of her kitchen-she had NO idea! So really, Naomi got a brand new, estimated worth of $15,000-$18,000 kitchen for around $500! She got to use the rest of the money to buy new stainless steel appliances! These pictures totally don't do the kitchen justice-it looks AMAZING! I'm so proud of my husband! :) It was so awesome to see the look on her face when she saw all of these! It was totally worth having Deric work LONG hours and never being home to get it done for it to be a surprise for her! I'm so grateful to have married such an amazing man that would do ANYTHING for anyone, especially his family!