Finally Kitchen Makeover Reveal!

So here is the kitchen before to refresh your memory

 

and here are a few of the process

 Daddy's little helpers:)

and here it is now after a lot of time and hard work from the hubby

 

 

Updates

Yesterday Jeramey had his last chemo treatment for this round! He goes back tomorrow to get unhooked then he is done! Hopefully done for good, we go at the end of the month for a scan to check the progress then we will figure out where we go from here. I couldn't be more proud of him! He has done amazing!! So there will be some serious celebrating going on, he deserves it!Thank you all for your love and support we cant tell you how much it means to us, keep praying:)

So after a long day in Cleveland Daddy got the night to himself to rest without the craziness of his two favorite girls as I took Jaylee to karate and my Mom took Lex to story hour

Yesterday morning I put together a new recipe for dinner as I knew it would be a busy day. I have wanted to try it for a while now, this is my mom's recipe and I have to admit I really wasn't to thrilled about it, but Jeramey wanted to try it and my mom and sister love it. So I made it, gave it a try and was surprised it was really good. Normally i wouldn't even try things like that. This fed our family of 4 perfectly.

Mom's White Chicken Chili

INGREDIENTS:

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked and shredded

1 medium onion, chopped

1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder or 2 cloves fresh garlic, finely minced

1 tablespoon oil

2 cans (15 1/2 ounces each) Great Northern Beans, rinsed and drained

1 can (14 1/2 ounces) chicken broth

2 cans (4 ounces each) chopped green chilies (if you like less kick, add just one can)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 cup sour cream

1/2 cup whipping cream

Fresh cilantro, for garnish 

DIRECTIONS:

In a large saucepan, saute  onion and garlic powder (or fresh garlic, if using) in oil . Add beans, broth, chilies and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in sour cream and cream. Garnish with fresh cilantro, if desired. Serve immediately. This is especially good served with tortilla chips.

 This picture doesn't look the best but trust me it's good:)

Now onto those house updates, 2 weekends ago Jermaey was hunting all weekend and went to the Michigan so I was home basically the whole weekend just me and the girls.So what to do while the husbands away paint the kitchen and entry way of course:) I painted the cupboards got new knobs for them and painted the walls I love the look of it now, looks so warm and inviting.

This was before

 and now

 and here is the entry way before

now here after

So there you have the updates to the house, I may or may not be doing the green in the living room this weekend a little darker green:) I guess you'll have to wait and see!

It's been a while

Okay so we play catch up again, I've been so bad at this lately! I will start with where we left off...

Our driveway is all ready for the new concrete, Jeramey and our friends and family have worked so hard despite all the rain that set us back and all the old concrete is out the new sewer and storm is in and now we are just waiting for the concrete guys to come. So our part is done , we were hoping to have everything done but the rain put everyone back about a week so we are crossing our fingers that we will be forming and pouring end of this week or early next week. I CAN'T wait to be done with this mess!

This picture is from the night of my 10 year reunion before dinner and drinks with friends, of course Jeramey was just thrilled like always to have his picture taken:)

Last week we had our usual busy week of story time, karate, story hour and work. Tuesday Jeramey made his usual trip to Cleveland for treatment number 9 but after his labs came back the doctor wanted to skip this treatment as his platelet counts were low. Which was disappointing for us but the doctor said it will be good to skip this one pushing it back will help all the counts get back up. That way he can sail through these last 4 treatments a lot easier. So this coming Tuesday we will be going for treatment number 9 after that 3 more to go!

So from skipping this treatment I along with everyone else can see how good it did, Jeramey feels great like his old self he has been able to work without getting tired out from the chemo. Which he cant wait to be done with all together, he's way to busy to not be able to go go go:) So we took advantage of the skipped treatment fully. 

Friday Jeramey took Jay and our friends little girl bowling for the afternoon and from what I understand they had a blast and can't wait to go again!

Saturday Daddy and the girls had some time alone while I got to have a girls day with my Momma and Sis

We had lunch, shopped, and just enjoyed our alone time together, that doesn't happen very often! It was a pretty successful trip I got some birthday presents for Lex, the girls halloween costumes and even a couple of Christmas gifts bought! When I got home Jeramey had dropped the girls off to my Dad as he was going to a hunting banquet with some of his friends for the night. So Saturday was good we both got some much needed time for ourselves. 

Now onto this week, we've had beautiful weather and we have been taking full advantage!

 This weather is supposed to stay this way for at least a week so I'm sure we will be out trying to soak it all up while we can!

Tonight is Story hour for Jaylee, then tomorrow we are headed to a Japanese steak house for dinner to celebrate one of my best friends birthday. Jeramey and i have both neither been to one so we are excited about that. Other than that we have no plans so it should be a nice relaxing weekend:)

In some other very exciting news I will be getting a brother!!! My sister Haley is engaged! We are all so excited. The date is set for 12-22-2012 and I can't wait! 

Congrats Haley & Brock! We love you guys:)

A little bit of everything kind of post

We had a busy night last night so this was the perfect meal to have. You can't beat throwing everything in a crockpot in the morning and not having to do anything else with it until your ready to eat!

Italian pot roast

1 English Roast
Fresh mushrooms
Carrots
Onions
Cherry tomatoes
1 packet of dry Italian dressing
1 packet of onion soup mix
14 oz beef broth
8 oz tomato sauce

Place all your veggies on the bottom of the crock pot

set the roast on top

then sprinkle the packets over the roast followed by the beef broth and then tomato sauce. Cook on low for 8 hours. I like to use the leftover liquid for a gravy over homemade mashed potatoes.

With a meal like this you have to have some sort of warm dessert to go with it so when I threw the roast together I peeled up some apples for crockpot applesauce, along with tasting amazing it gives the house a wonderful smell all day long, I love it! This is by far the easiest recipe ever for applesauce I make this quite often during the fall and winter, everyone loves it! So here's the recipe for that again.

Crockpot applesauce

5-6 apples pealed and cut
1/4 cup of apple juice
Lemon juice from one lemon, I just used the liquid lemon juice and guessed how much I though would be from one lemon.
4 T brown sugar
1 t cinnamon
1 t vanilla

Place apples in the crock pot then just add all the other ingredients give it a quick stir and cook on low for 4-6 hours.

You can either leave them whole or mash them with a potato mashed depending how you like your applesauce. We like ours on the chunky side:)

We also had a big breakthrough yesterday, Jaylee learned to tie her shoes! She is so proud of her self!

As you can tell:)

 I had gotten her this board with shoes on it to help her learn and about 10-15 min of doing it with her she had it down!

When I was little I learned on something similar we had a wooden shoe with laces that my sister and I learned on, and I still remember it to this day, I wish my mom had held onto it so the girls could have used the same one.

Lex has also done great with the potty training, I think it's safe to say we are pretty much there:)

Potty in the living room Ipad and all, hey whatever works:)

We have a busy weekend ahead of ourselves, Friday night Jeramey and I are going out with one of his friends for the night, then on Saturday morning we are tearing out our driveway and sidewalk. We have been planning for this for about 2 years now, it needs to be repaired so badly. The downspouts under the concrete had broken years ago and have caused the concrete to fall and break. We have put it off as long as possible but if we don't get it fixed we will have some major problems with the foundation of our house. Jeramey insists on doing as much of the work as we can ourselves to make it as cheap as possible. Thank god we have some great friends and family who are willing to help out with the hard physical labor:) if Jeramey had his way he'd do it all himself. So the plan is to tear it out get it reformed and then repoured within the next week along with repairing the broken downspouts that caused the problem in the first place. So we will have a mess for a week or two. Here's a look at the current state of our driveway to give you a idea

After all that work Saturday morning we have my 10 year class reunion, so we are meeting some friends for dinner then headed to the reunion for the night. 10 years it seriously doesn't seem possible!
Sunday we plan to hopefully finish up the prep work for the driveway and at least relax a little before heading into the week. Then Tuesday we are off to Cleveland for treatment number 9! So busy busy we will be.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend:)