Fun with our girls

Last week we had a fun time with Alaina and Ruby. We started with a walk down our road, where one of our neighbors has a pumpkin wagon.

The girls had fun picking out a pumpkin to take home.

They found some good ones.

It was a nice evening and we spent a little time outside.

Our next project was Bubble painting.  It involves painting a pattern using watercolors on plastic wrap, then blowing bubbles and putting them on the wrap. Next, you place a piece of watercolor paper on top and let it dry.

Unfortunately, the bubbles didn't leave the pattern they were supposed to, so the girls decided to outline what they saw in the patterns.

Here's their finished products.

While the paint was drying we did a fun experiment.  I had seen something with suggestions on strange food combinations that tasted like something else, so we tried a few.

Here's what we started with: a lemon, a tomato, a cucumber, a banana, an avocado, cinnamon and sugar.

Combos - cucumber and sugar was supposed to taste like watermelon. It kind of did, but the crunchiness of the cucumber threw us off.  Banana and avocado was supposed to taste like ice cream - maybe just a little. Lemon and cinnamon was supposed to taste like coke. This amazed us - it really did!  Tomato and sugar was supposed to taste like strawberry.  We didn't think so!  We ate this as kids, so it didn't seem like a funny combination to me.

Here's our fearless tasters!  They weren't actually too fearless, there was some concern about some of those combinations.  But we had fun!

Kitchen, phase 3

You may remember that Bob has been busy working on a kitchen project at Heather's house.  It's not a quick project. He's been working on it in phases. That way the whole thing isn't torn up at once and they can still use it. Here's a few pictures to show you what's been done so far.

This was phase 1; the upper cabinets on one wall. The old cabinets were torn out along with the bulkhead and the new cabinets that Bob built were installed.

Phase 2: Lower cabinets removed. New cabinets, dishwasher, sink and countertops installed.

And now on to phase 3.

This phase started with the removing of most of the wall between the kitchen and dining room. This would let everything be more open, and give space for a tall pantry to be added.  It was a messy job!

Ready for installation!  I was following Bob to Heather and Andew's house. He had the pantry pieces in the back of his truck.

You can see where the wall was removed and where the pantry was going.

And here it is, all installed!

This is what's inside; on the bottom is trash and recycling, in the middle is something on the door for wraps, bags and foils.  There's a deep drawer for utensils and some shelves. The top is lots of shelves for storage!

Everyone was hard at work on the little details.

Cassie loves to help!

This is where we're at right now.  The trim has to be finished, a tile backsplash will go up and the window needs to be trimmed out. Then new flooring will go in, and work will start on the other side of the room. It's already so much better and Heather has lots more storage than she started with.

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