Kitchen Update

According to my Grandpa (whom reminded me at Thanksgiving), I am behind on showing updated pictures of the kitchen! Here are pictures of the kitchen and the house:

 So happy with how the kitchen turned out!

Old view

I still need to finish the back splash.

Old stove and cabinets.

Old view from the sink

 New view from the sink

Old wall

Dining room

Fire place

Family room (yes that's a slide and a horse)

Andrew's room

Another month behind: Fall back to November

Wow, so another month went by without me doing a blog post and I am working on 3 right now lol.  November was great! The first weekend my sister in law Carolyn and her kids Hailey and Connor came to visit us.  It was great to see them and I know Andrew had a blast playing with his cousin's. That Saturday the kids, Carolyn and I went shopping.  Old Navy was having a coat sale so we went there.  Then we headed to Michael's to kill some time while we waited for Matt to get off work.  After that we went to Culver's to eat lunch.  Our usual spot to eat on the weekends.  Although we haven't been there since so we will probably eat there this weekend. After lunch we dropped Matt and the kids off at the house and Carolyn and I went to run some errands.  We went downtown to some shops and one of our stops was The Candy Factory! Awesome place and a great place to get Christmas gifts!

We headed back to the house after running errands and relaxed for a bit before heading out to dinner.  After dinner Matt watched the kids again (thank you hubby!) while Carolyn and I went to get a drink.  It was nice to catch up with her and have some girl time.

Sunday morning I made french toast and sausage for breakfast then all of all went to church.  We came back to the house and had pizza for lunch.  Andrew needed to take a nap and Carolyn and the kids headed back home! Thanks for visiting us Carolyn, Hailey and Connor! We had so much fun!

The next weekend Andrew went to a birthday party for Parker, a friend from church.  They watched the movie Planes, ate cake and ice cream and Parker opened presents.  The mommy's had some mommy time while the kids played.  We had a blast!

(Photos taken by Parker's parents)

Eating cake and ice cream

This is Parker.  Andrew got him a couple of Cars cars.

The weekend before Thanksgiving Mitch, Matt's brother, and Connor came to visit us.  Mitch couldn't come when Carolyn and the kids came at the beginning of the month because Mitch had to work.  They got it late Saturday night.  Sunday we all went to church together and then came back to have lunch.  After lunch Andrew had to take a nap.  After his nap, Andrew, Matt, Mitch and Connor had some guy time and went to an arcade and Toys R Us.  While they were out, I decorated the house with Christmas decorations! I knew we wouldn't be home the weekend after Thanksgiving which is when I usually put the decorations up, so I did it the weekend before.

Once we were done with everything, we went to Smokin Chicks BBQ for dinner.  Mitch and Connor went home after lunch on Monday.  It was nice to have them over!

Last weekend was Thanksgiving which I am writing another blog about.

Hope December doesn't go by without me writing a blog or two :)

October Weekends

This month the weekends have just flown by! The first two weekends in October were spent remodeling the kitchen.  Jon was here working on that.  It has turned out great and we are very happy with the results.  I do recommend if you are doing a kitchen remodel to be prepared to not have a sink and dishwasher for a couple of weeks.  You will be washing your dishes in your bathroom sink and/or tub, which isn't as fun as it sounds. It took Jon a week to get the majority of the kitchen done.  Last Monday the granite guys came to install that and Jon and his family came up.  Jon finished installing the faucet and dishwasher.  The rest of the family visited with us and we were very happy to see them.

The second weekend in October, Matt and I went to Saint Louis for the 49ers vs Rams football game on Monday.  Only my second ever NFL game.  Very fun and the 49ers won!

Two weeks ago, we were able to have a weekend to ourselves.  Got most of the kitchen back together.  The second bedroom on the main floor is starting to look more like a bedroom and not a spare kitchen pantry :)

We went to our church's Hayride and Bonfire on the 19th of this month.  This was a lot of fun! We rode the hayride over to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins! Then we roasted hot dogs over the bonfire and marshmallows too! S'mores are delicious!!!

We love, especially me, the church family we have found and became good friends with here in Columbia.  It definitely helps me out a lot because I am able to get out of the house more. I also help out with Awana's on Wednesday night with the Sparky club.  Those are the K-2nd graders.  Very fun!!

Roasting marshmallows over the bonfire!

Daddy and Andrew

 Love the sunset and the light in this picture!

Family of pumpkins!

Here is a link to pictures from the Bonfire:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10102403316815799.1073741857.16807661&type=1&l=91709a9247

This past week of baseball has been awesome!! Royals are in the World Series for the first time since I was 2 years old! It has been great watching and enjoying this time with family!

Matt and his brother were able to go to game 2 at the K and might be going to game 6!

This past weekend, after Matt got done with work on Saturday, we drove to Olathe for a family BBQ.  It was to celebrate Matt's nephew, Preston, birthday.  Was great to see family and friends.  We all celebrated his birthday and then watched game 4 of the World Series.  Would have been nice to win that one but we will see what happens in the rest of the series. We drove to my parents house that night to spend the night there.

The next morning we met my sister and Mark at I HOP for breakfast.

Coloring with Grandma and Grandpa

 Having fun!

When we got back to their house, we all helped pick up acorns in the front of the house.  There were a lot and I felt like we weren't getting anywhere.  As we would pick them up, more would fall from the tree.

Andrew had fun taking them out of one bucket and putting them in another bucket.  Or putting them on the ground lol.

After our hard work, we played some wiffle ball in the backyard.

Andrew and papa played in the leaves.

Weekends are always fun and never last long enough.  We enjoy them when we having little to nothing going on and when the weekend is full of things to do!

This upcoming weekend we are excited because Carolyn and the kids are coming to visit. It will be nice to hang out with them!