The kitchen ....

After re-modeling our kitchen 6 years ago, I never thought

I would ever have to live without a kitchen again

I never wanted to either

but here we are.....have no kitchen!

the pipe under that carries the hot water burst.

thankfully we were home at the time

I cannot imagine if we had not been considering how fast it flooded

This happened back in September and they dried the floors out

but then we all agreed it was best to let everything settled down

and see if the buckling of the floor would settle down

and it did in some spots, but not all over

So now we are starting the repairs

and being without a kitchen again is no fun at all
they have to sand the floors in not only the kitchen, but also the
dining room, back hallway and the 1/2 bath
there was damage to the cabinet that holds the sink so that
will be replaced. Also damage to the kick plates around the 
bottom of the cabinets.

first we had to clean out the kitchen, just stuff on the counters,

pictures off of the wall

so bare....

the people came on Friday to remove all of the furniture, they are

storing that offsite

they also prepped the space for the floor sanders

the plumber also came and unhooked the plumbing and removed

the toilet in the 1/2 bathroom

Our living room became our make shift kitchen

the microwave and of course our coffee bar!

what a mess and oh hey, there's my new Christmas tree

after this picture we did bring in the folding table and put 

everything on that

all sealed up...I sure hope it works on

keeping the dust out

the white cabinets look so funny with that blue

tape all over them but that is supposed to keep the dust out

TV all taped up

and then 15 minutes after they left this happened

hahaha

I'm typing this up on Sunday and it is now laying on the floor

the floor people come on Monday morning so they will hang it

back up

Just hanging out in the temporary kitchen

this is the cabinet that was damaged by the hot water

these nice young men came on Saturday to remove the granite

My big sink was one of my most favorite things in our re-model

now she's resting there on the cabinet floor.....

granite gone!

so the timeline is sand the floors on Monday

Stain them on Tuesday

a coat of poly on Wed, Thursday and Friday

then I believe on Monday put it all back together again!!

I survived 7 weeks with no kitchen so I'll be 

able to get through this....just a pain! haha

later.....

Halloween party ....

This is our second time of hosting a Halloween party

Johnny just loves getting out all of his creepy stuff

and decorating outside with it

I have pictures of our party set up and that is all...ha!

I used my little polaroid camera and took pictures of everyone 

who came to the party. It was so much fun

seeing everyone's costumes

but I do not have digital pictures to post

only little tiny polaroids!

But here is how we decorated...

our sweet daughter-in-law Kayce did our makeup

Jake and Kayce were Forrest Gump and Jenny....she wasn't in

costume yet

when throwing a holiday party, I like a busy table

you can see below that not only food, I had little bowls with candy

lots of skulls and candles. Pretty much stuck to the skull theme this year

and of course our skeleton filled with crackers, pepperoni's and cheese

veggie tray and fruit tray

We had meatballs, assorted breads with marinara sauce

chips with salsa

shrimp with cocktail sauce

a chex mix called "salty and sweet"

a dish with "eyeballs" bubble gum

sweet tarts shaped liked skeletons

peanuts....

For dessert I had Krispy Kreme donuts

and gingerbread with cool whip

the party was bring your own beer but I did make

a bourbon punch...made with black tea

recipe from my niece Aimee and it is so good

and a shot bar....lots of different shot glasses

and Fireball on ice! 

I love the Ouija board placemat we found

at Spirit Halloween

creepy insane girl hanging out the window

we had to get Johnny to turn her off after a while...her evil

laugh was getting annoying....haha

Fire pit ready to go

pirate skeleton hanging out there

I love putting blankets on the backs of the chairs

for people who might get cold

We ended up having great weather, just a little bit of chill in the air

freaky momma zombie

she rocks and talks in a scary voice to her zombie babies

our son brought some patio heaters over and

some major spotlights

we had 2 sets of corn hole set up in the driveway

this was Johnny's new purchase for this year

he loved it

This wolf monster stood 6 ft 2 inches.....and was quite scary

and that's it

later.....

Pumpkin Patch ....

I went to the pumpkin patch with

Jacquelyn, Bucky, Declan and Avery

we went to a different one this year, Lloyd's Family Farm

it was really nice, not long lines and very pretty countryside

Avery getting her face painted

Declan waiting his turn

so cute

corn maze

such cool looking pumpkins

they had something like 60 different varieties of pumpkins / gourds

Declan loves to scare me with snakes.....he knows I am so afraid of them

so he got a snake painted on his face and thought it was fun

to snarl and hiss at me....haha

later...