Something Random from my Kitchen

Fruit-Kebobs...

... Easy and fun and yummy... Need I say more?

Happy 4th!

So Jacob is four. Wow. Holy smokes. Crazy. I find this hard to believe, and yet here he is. My wonderful little boy. He is so excited to be four!

Here is my delicious looking iced cake:

This icing is so good! And way easier than buttercream.

1 pkg instant pudding (I obviously used chocolate)

1/2 the milk called for on the package of pudding

1 small container cool whip

Mix together for creamy deliciousness. 

Bonus recipe: throw leftover icing in the blender with milk to thin the consistency. Pour into popsicle molds for the best "fudgsicles" I have ever made.

Now, Jacob wanted a digger cake. So then I brought out the heavy machinery... CAKE DESTRUCTION! 

But look at that cute face! He loved it and had a great birthday.

There's a Hole in my Blue Kitchen

So thursday morning we woke up to a huge puddle of water on our kitchen counters, and there was water all in our cabinets. Weird. Our bathroom is right above our kitchen so we thought maybe the shower curtain was out of whack because we had had small drips before when the boys splash water out of the tub all over the floor. Anyways, so thursday evening we gave the boys a bath with strict instructions not to splash. They didn't and yet we had even more water in our kitchen. Hurray! Just what we wanted to deal with. So we cut a hole in the wall and this is what we found.

Okay. Well I loosened the trap, but see that ring hanging in the middle of the trap? That is only half of the piece that is supposed to seal the joint there.

Here is the other half. Nice, eh? No wonder water was pouring out of that joint.

So here is me trying to take the pipe apart. Awkward at best. (This should be a super model pose.)

This is the hole. What those wires are for, I don't know, but I found them sitting in a puddle of water. I don't think they are live, they don't pull out, and I have no idea where they go other than upstairs.

So that was a thursday night. Today is friday. It is fixed, we had showers and there were no leaks. Yes. Though I was secretly hoping maybe it would be something worse and we could gut our bathroom. Yet I am also so thankful it was something we could fix on our own and only took a few hours and 20$.

A very special thank you to my father-in-law for his advice over the phone that evening. We couldn't have done it without you.

Another special thanks to my neighbours on both sides. One lent us a drywall knife and the other lent us some pipe glue.