My Painted Kitchen

So when we moved into this house in June the kitchen was a deep dark red, almost maroon. Nice, but not my style. I prefer lighter colors. So here we are in November and finally have painted the kitchen. We chose green and I really like it. Here are the before and after shots.

I couldn't find the picture I took so this is the one from the listing.

Here it is after the missionaries came over and helped me prime the walls. Notice the stains on the floor. I've tried everything I can think of and they will not come up. I think I will just have to buy bigger mats to cover them.

Here it is freshly painted. I still have touch ups and some decorating to do. I really like the green it will look great with the color we have chosen for the living and dinning room. That will happen sometime next year. :)

Take a Guess

Next Tuesday is the big day. We are having our ultrasound! I'm so excited to find out the gender of the little person growing inside of me. So we would like to hear your guesses.
Boy? or Girl?
The odds are good that you will guess right.

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Shopping Success!

So I have been trying to tighten up our food budget by better menu planning and the use of coupons. I've been seeing the savings grow each week and I'm telling you it is worth the investment of time and planning. Today I went to Publix and bought $66.15 of food, after BOGO and coupons some doubled some not, I saved 32.28 leaving me with a bill of 33.87. I know there are others who have done much better than that but I still feel good about my savings :) I wish Walmart would double coupons. Anyone know of a store that will triple coupons?

Happy Halloween

Tonight was Owen's first time Trick or Treating door to door. He had lots of fun. We went with some of our neighbors which made it more fun.

Is it time yet?

A little premature. Take off the wrapper kid.

Check'n out the loot.

Owen trying not to smile for the camera.

I'm looking forward to next year.
This year was too much fun to not do it again.
Maybe next year we will decorate the outside of the house.
Maybe.

Our Halloween Family Home Evening

For our FHE fun we carved our very first pumpkin. I don't remember Garett and I ever having a pumpkin for Halloween until this year. It was so much fun carving it, and we love how it turned out. The best part was watching Owen try to gut the thing. He didn't seem to mind the texture or the mess.

I thought it was odd that most of the seeds had taken root.
If I had room in my yard I would have planted some of them.

Dig in!

Tracing our pattern.

The fun part.

Our Bat

Trunk or Treat

Tonight was our church Trunk or Treat. It was a lot of fun watching all the kids dressed up, enjoying games and overdosing on sugar. There was a chili cook off, we didn't enter but we brought corn bread which was all gone by the end of the evening so I'll guess that it turned out well. Owen had fun playing with his nursery friends and loved wearing the dinosaur outfit until it came off then he would have nothing more to do with it. He was a little worn out by the Trunk or Treat time but as soon as he figured out that people were giving him candy he found the energy to go car to car saying please.

Owen sporting the dino suit.

Owen and I in the "Candy Walk"

Fishing for treats.

The Trent's on a hayride.

Multi Taksing

Our sweet son has learned the value of multi tasking. :) Look closely at his mouth in the photo.

That's right, a sucker and his paci at the same time. Way to have it all Owen!