Weekend Plans---Impromptu Cooking & Baking & Football

Since the weather is less than stellar and I am still not feeling well...we are having a quiet, home day. This morning Husby had coaching so we all went; including our Little Lion. They had a little Halloween party, so we had some sweet treats after coaching and then headed to BJs & Publix to run errands.

After seeing a yummy recipe at Publix last night, Husby decided we would do that for lunch. So lunch today is Chicken Tender Bake (Chicken, mashed potatoes and sweet corn), while we watch some Gators Football. If the weather clears up and it is not too wet or chilly, we are planning to do the Halloween event at the zoo; "Boo at the Zoo". In the meantime, I am laying on the couch watching, Casper, Husby is carving our pumpkin, and B is napping. Depending how I feel, I was going to make an Apple Streudel Pizza later tonight and tomorrow make a pot of the Hearty Veggie Stew for weekly meals and tomorrow night's dinner.

Tomorrow, is food shopping and menu planning, as well as, league. Hoping tomorrow is a better day then today. Hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween weekend!!!

Spooky Dining Set and New Table

So earlier I wrote about our recent furniture purchase. Well this weekend we were able to pick it up. When we got home I realized I really did not like the fabric on the chairs (even more dislike compared to when we were in the store). So, we decided to immediately recover them with the blue fabric we had picked out. So off we went to Joann's to find our fabric. Thankfully, it was on sale (50% off), so Sunday Husby started putting the chairs together and recovering the chairs. Below is the before and after photos with close-ups of the fabric.

Before: Chair

Close-up of the fabric

After: Chair

Close-up of the Fabric

The complete Dining Set

Our Halloween Table Scene

Close-up of the Placemats

Center Dish for fruit and bread

The Breakfast Nook table setting

Close-up of the table setting

The new Refrigerator

Complete with In-the-door ice and water dispenser

Love it!

Puppy Costumes

Lucky

Close-up of his Shirt

Snowie the Skeleton

Back view

Snowie the Lifeguard

Close-up

Reese the Skeleton

Halloween Village

Here are pictures of this year's Halloween village display.

Shipwreck Island

Pirate Island

Pirate Ship

Outlook Island

The Wharf

The Beach Scene

 House # 1

 

The Haunted Orchard

 

Up the Hill

 

 Skull Gate

 

Witch Crossing

The Saloon

The Graveyard

Witch Rest

Graveyard Continued

Patiently Waiting...

Town Center

Bridge Crossing & Motel

Motel

Spider Tree

Mummy Love

House # 2

Village Screenshot

Happy Halloween

~From our home to yours~

Friday's Dinner:

Beef Stew & Veggies with Bone Biscuits

Bone Biscuits

Scary Cupcakes for Office Parties

The Pumpkins

 

We unfortunately had no Trick-or-Treaters this year, but enjoyed a Halloween party at a friend's home.

Husby went as Swine Flu, complete with a pig nose, ears and a tail and I was a nurse.

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Blogging has definitely taken a backseat to life here but mainly because grad school, being sick, teaching 7 classes a week, Husby traveling, and my shoulder still hurting has been the primary focuses. Once again Husby is traveling and it is a quiet week between grad school (term starts Wednesday) and teaching (Exam 2 this week).

Nothing to exciting has been occurring either. We have the village almost all set for Halloween (pics to come in future post) and this weekend, we bought some new furniture for the home. We are beginning to transition ourselves from newlyweds and "stay-at homes" to more entertaining and future family status, so we found a really nice dining table that has a leaf for widening/extending it with 6 matching chairs and also a loveseat to match our couch in the Living Room.

Our Couch:



Our New Loveseat:



This is the Dining Room Table except with 6 chairs:



The Tall chairs (Ones on Left) are the chairs we went with (We already plan to redo the seats as I do not like the material on them from the warehouse):



*I think we are going to cover the chairs in a blue suede-like material, but cannot find a good picture*

*::*Update*::*
Although this is crappy camera phone picture, you can kid of see the color of the fabric. I happened to be near Joann's and figured I could snap a quick picture.



Saw this fabric and want to make pillows out of it or maybe placemats and napkins:
*http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat1183844&PRODID=xprd779844*