Halloween Decorations

I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of goodies to make Halloween decorations...here are a couple of things that I got completed.

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I made these great vases with two candlesticks and two vases! The great thing is I can use them all year round!
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Sadly thats all I got done so far, I still have some projects but I will get them finished and use them for next year!

Halloween...so sad

Okay I'm a horrible mother. Lol. But with all the chaos going on in our house we just got super distracted. I asked around and found that everyone had plans for halloween and that Kade wouldn't have anywhere to go trick or treating so we made him a deal. He could pick a bag of candy and a Wii game or he could go trick or treating in our empty neighborhood. He chose the Wii game and candy! So we didn't really do Halloween this year even though its my favorite holiday! Heck I even took down all my halloween decorations that I worked so hard on a couple weeks ago because I was so frustrated with the kitchen. I will show some of the projects that I did in another post

Kitchen Disaster

About three weeks ago Greg noticed that a spot on the wall above the stove, near the ceiling looked odd. So I climbed up on the cabinets to take a look. I touched the wall and found only mush, the only thing that was keeping my fingers from going right through the wall was the layer of paint on it! We had a leak!!! The pipe that drained all the water from our upstairs laundry room and guest bathroom was leaking, the plumber said that it probably was leaking for years! But there was no signs that anything in the house was damaged. We called the plumber the next day and this is what he did to our wall:

During his work he cut a whole near the floor behind the stove and this is what we saw:

Yep thats what you think it is MOLD! We had to take the upper cabinets down to find the extent of the damage and this was the greusome discovery:

I don't have any pictures of when we took out the bottom cabinets but there was a ton more mold down there hidden behind them. I was utterly devastated! My house is usually pretty clean but this made me feel really dirty and icky.
Here's a little side note....I have been sick for weeks now and couldn't figure out why. Now I have a pretty good idea because I'm extremely allergic to mold! Luckily neither of the boys show any signs that it was bothering them. We took down the entire wall and was left with this:

Its been a few weeks since we tore the wall down and we just got the drywall finished yesterday. Today the boys are working on putting in the bottom cabinets, then a guy is supposed to come by and do the texturing. When that is all done I will paint and we will hang the upper cabinets! Hopefully not to far in the future!

First Day of School

Okay I'm playing catch up again....

I was incredibly lucky this year to get Kade into a new school, Benjamin Franklin Charter School. It is an amazing school and a bunch of his Jarman and Edmunds cousins go there. They have a really great curriculum and I know he will excel in their environment. He has to wear a uniform if he wears shorts and they have a strict dress code for the times when he doesn't want to wear shorts! He already loves the school, his teacher, and his classmates. I have an amazing sister in-law who watches Kade before and after school!

Here is Kade's first day of school pic.

Kindergarten Graduation

Kade has officially graduated Kindergarten. I can't believe my little baby is going to be a 1st grader. That's just insane. His school provided a personalized dvd and a portfolio (see below) for his graduation. This makes me sad, I can't believe our schools will pay for something like this but expects the teachers to provide supplies for their classes. This is just dumb.

My 28 day journey continued...

I posted a month ago that I was starting a 28 day program written by Denise Linn, since then I have been very slow about doing it....lazy would probably be a good word to describe whats been going on. I started doing other projects and getting wrapped up in other things instead of doing something I know will be helpful to me. I am rededicating myself in the month of June to take control of some things that I have been putting off or just being plain lazy to start. I am looking for someone to help me start becoming a Reiki master, but I have already started doing some work with my Chakra's to get prepared for this big step that I would like to take. I am also going to have make a big jump in my exercise and healthy eating routine. As I go I will probably post more....at least if my Mom had her wish I would be very dedicated to posting on here!

The Infamous Hutch....

My new project is an awesome find on craigslist. I found a gorgeous solid wood hutch for a cool $100 bucks....thanks to my hubby and his dad for driving an hour away to pick it up!!!! These are the before picks....I will update with my progress.

This is the top half!

This is the bottom half! I plan on refurbishing the hardware, I like the classic look of it but it needs to be updated with a little spraypaint!