October 11th through October 15th:

October 11^th through October 15^th:  Thursday

I got a call as I was driving home from dropping mom off at Kate’s home.  She spent the day tending her kids while she was at a conference in Provo.  The cabinet parts were ready.  So I went straight there and they lent me their trailer.  2000 lbs. of parts would not fit in the back of the Extera.  I spent the rest of the day assembling cabinets.

  

The drawers and roll outs and base cabinets.



Friday was much of the same, although I did get John’s door picked up.  Saturday morning I assembled all the drawers and rollouts.  The rest of Saturday was spent installing John’s door, 

John's new door.

going to Ellie’s birthday party, 

Ellie's birthday party.


Mom was the glitter queen at Ellie's birthday party,

going to Badger’s last football game, 

Badger's last game and pictures.

and taking Moose and his friend, Harrison, to Boondocks for Moose’s birthday present.

  Harrison and Moose at Boondocks playing roller ball.



Lunch at Pizza Pie Café.



We also stopped at the wedding reception for Vanesa Rada. We had never met her, but her mother, Teresa Prudencio, is one of our temple workers from Cochabamba.  We promised Sister Prudencio that we would take some pictures and give her daughter a hug from her.  

 

Teresa Prudencio's daughter's wedding.



We were dressed quite casually because we were on our way to a cabin up by Peoa.  We gave a fireside about our mission to the High Priest Group of our old ward in Salt Lake.  Sunday was teaching SS about parables and we took about 20 everyday objects and passed them out and they had to make up a parable about their object.  They were very cute and fun. Monday was demo day.  It went well except that we found a vent pipe in the wall I am moving.  Now we have to get a plumber in to move the vent pipe.  Alex stayed home and helped.  He did all the hard stuff like taking a layer of thin brick off the walls that had been covered by wainscoting and then worked for hours taking up the old linoleum floor.

The Before pictures of the kitchen.



What the kitchen looks like after day one.

 



Some of my helpers.





My biggest helper, Luke.

Tuesday;

I spent the day finishing the demo and starting the framing.  I also picked up the cabinet doors and picked up the new stove and then went to work.  Mom substitute taught at Northwest Middle School.  It was a resource math class and she was administering a unit test.  She said it was very humbling because she would have failed the test if she had to take it.  She wasn’t even sure how to use the calculator.  She hopes to stay away from math classes.  Our Extera started acting up so I took it in.  Ouch, it needs about $1000.00 worth of work.