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Halloween 2012

We started off our festivities with a ward Trunk-or-Treak party. It was so fun.
This year Kaylee wanted to be a scary bat. I lucked out and found her costume at Goodwill for just under five dollars. She was easy peasy this year. Lucky me.
I was going to have Regan wear his Woody pj’s and a cowboy hat and call it good. BUT Uncle Josh thought we should embrace Regan’s love affair with sword play. The idea grew on me and I sucked it up and altered some things found at Goodwill and whipped out a Dread Pirate Roberts costume.
I am SO glad I did. It was so cute!
I found and had Josh order an Inigo Montoya costume. Josh and Regan practiced their fight scene often before the big day. I should have got video. It was pretty awesome.
Eating yummy food before getting candy.
The fight!  Regan wasn’t a huge fan of the gloves or headpiece. People kept thinking he was Zorro. I eventually just stopped correcting them. We did have one of our neighbor gals actually recognize him as Wesley. I think she was the only one though.
One of our ward members had skeleton and coffin in the car.
The children Trunk-or-Treating. This was the Saturday before Halloween.
Halloween night. The children were SO excited to go get more candy. In fact Regan wore his costume to Kaylee’s Dr. appt, that morning, and all day long.
My scary bat and Wesley.
More sword play.
These too looked so good. It had me wishing I would have just done a whole Princess Bride theme.
But since I happily get to borrow my sister’s last year costume and Jon wears the same thing every year we didn’t do a theme. Some time we will though.
This is only their second year doing the door to door thing.
Josh ened up running back to the house to grab the stoller to speed things up a bit.
Two nights of candy gathering and not a single Butterfinger for their Mama! So sad. Meanwhile we have plenty of candy for Regan’s birthday pinata.

Mother’s Day

The children spent most of the day in a half comatose state watching t.v on the couch.
Notice they both have puke buckets nearby. Yup. They got the stomach flu or something nasty on Mother’s Day. So I went to church alone while Jon was on sicky duty. He cleaned lots of puke. 
Jon made me a yummy dinner. It was SO nice not to have to cook or clean. Well clean food/dishes anyway. I did break out my trusty Mean Green. It’s just not Mother’s Day with out having to clean bodily fluids.  My very first Mother’s Day had me running out of sacrament meeting to change/clean an amazing amount of newborn Kaylee spit-up. We may as well call that puke right? Good times. 🙂

Meanwhile some very AWESOME things happened Mother’s Day weekend. This this hot mess of crap on my counter is GONE. As Shannon would say, “It looks like your groceries puked all over your counter.” Ya. Well no more! Couldn’t be happier about it. See this hot mess has been the pantry for the last Seven months. Far too long!

See when the boys started doing demo I got a phone call from Jon asking if I would like them to build me a pantry where the weird microwave cubby hole was. Um… YES PLEASE! He didn’t really need to ask. I just think he wanted me excited about having a pantry IN the kitchen and NOT in the hallway.

Here are a few demo pictures. There was electrical, moving doors, drywall……. It took some doing to make that hole pantry sized.

If you look close you can see the master bathroom toilet through the pantry. The wall was all closed up and the drywall guy did such a great job by the time I arrived in AZ. You seriously cannot tell that there ever was a door on the other side. See there was a in master linen closet. So the boys just reversed the whole shabang (because it was a space I really didn’t/don’t need) to make the pantry. Clever boys!

So seven months later. They needed a bit of a break. They did a TON of demo and repair. A TON! They decided it was time. Time to finish the pantry. It took lots of head scratching and math to figure out the odd angle that wasn’t even as they measured up the wall.

But once all the math and cuts were made it went CRAZY fast.

It was definitely a two man job. They had to stack the boards to get them all in. So one would hold the stack up while the other nailed in the braces. Then they would drop a shelf and do it all again.

But good grief isn’t it lovely?!?! It’s HUGE! I have so much empty space. I need to get all sorts of organizers for it to keep it easy to find things and make it pretty. Right now I just have everything shoved in there. I was just SO SO SO happy to clear off my counter.



Such a nice change. My kitchen feel so much bigger now. I LOVE IT! We are slowly but surely checking off our super humungo home improvement list.



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