Halloween, House sneak preview, and Parties!

Our Rich Life continues! :) So it looks like the Rich family will be moving back home before Thanksgiving! We have come such a long ways! We now have floor, primer on the walls, baseboards and doors should be here next week, cabinets the following week, then countertops and hardware, and then our furniture, and then us!! So excited!

We have lots of new and exciting things to show also!

1. Furniture- We ordered furniture today! (we had a crazy day of running around ( I really don't enjoy leaving the house before 9 a.m. and not getting home until almost 8 p.m., but we have accomplished so much!)

2. We decided to do a glass tile accent wall on the space around the fireplace! It is going to look amazing! It will look like this house on st. charles ave. in downtown NO!! :) The house appraised for $500, 000!! (picture in top left of above collage)

3. Play-group Halloween Party! Robyn Loader did a fantastic job, all the kids looked great, and it was so good to see all my mommy-wifey friends!!

4. We went to a work Halloween party this week which was so awesome! Courtney had the house decorated so amazingly, and the food was incredible looking (pictures below!), and it was really enjoyable! (these pics were on jason's phone and it was dark outside, but I hope you can still tell how cool everything was!) So PINTREST!

5. Church  Halloween Party tonight! We showed up just in time for Trunk or Treat! Everyone looked sooooo great!! I will post some pictures to my Facebook. Our little Rubble family had a blast though despite the cold (that i was not expecting to last, nor prepared for this morning when we left the house for the day). lol

6. This week is Halloween of course! And Jason's birthday!!! We are going out trick-or- treating together for Keaton's first official trick-or-treat experience! I am so excited! We also need to carve pumpkins this week!

7. Life isn't all hunky-dory all the time, but I definitely choose to focus on the happy and the good, so I won't vent about the crazy stuff that has been happening with insurance, being scammed online trying to order Jason's bday present, Keaton's big accident, etc. lol That is enough said. Everything will work out! :)


Hopefully I will have some more fun stuff to share next week!

This next week, we will officially have lived with friends longer than we have lived in our new house. Wow! It is crazy how time flies, how many emotions that sentence brings on, and how far we have to go. All the things I thought would be done by now, haven't even been started. It is frustrating, yet I know we are so blessed and have truly come quite a ways. I know it will all have gone by fast in the grand scheme of things, but right now...it couldn't be going any slower.

In the mean time, I have had lots of things to keep me busy!:

 1. CRAFTS! :Y'all thought my last blog post contained a lot of crafts....guess what...I have even more to show now lol We have re-decorated Marie's whole room. We made a rug (it took like a week lol), wall hangings, blanket. pillow, and curtain valence. We even took the pink curtains that were hanging in my house when we bought it (no..Jason wouldn't let me keep them for Keaton's room ;) ) and we put them in Marie's room. They work great!!!

2. KIDS: Of course these little munchkins provide constant entertainment in my life and I love them! They are so cute together and play so well....even though sometimes they do stress me out and are, as Mary calls them, "stage 5 clingers'. They are so cute in their big kid carseats, clothes, shoes, and even walking home from the bus stop! (glimpse into the future!!!.... ) We walked with Mary's sister's kids home from the bus stop.... our kids were so cute walking with the big kids. They got a little left behind though...short legs.

3. WEDDING: Mary's sister wedding is in like 16 days! We have been going to bridal showers, bridal photo sessions, thinking about rehearsal dinners, bachelorette party, and of course the bid day itself! It is so fun! I even got to practice my photography at Amy's bridal session. I am not very good, but I was quite impressed with the shots I did get (as I tried not to be in the way  and lay low lol) It was so fun getting to help put the blanket out for her to stand on, move props around, fix her hair and dress, the whole experience was fun to me! I never did bridals so I definitely think I lived a little vicariously through Amy that day hahaha ( I hope she didn't mind!) Her pictures at the Houma Plantation are beautiful and I can't wait to post them. They are finished, but I want to wait for her permission :) Here is the plantation though.

4. ACTIVITIES: We have been playing volleyball, ping pong, running errands, and going to community events such as "Battle for the Paddle" Gumbo and Jambalaya Cook-Off in St. Charles Parish. This kid won't eat jambalaya or gumbo at home.. but when all these people are eating it...why not right lol. Crazy kid! He definitely got to vote for his favorite :) We loved going with the Guilfou's and seeing the Davis and Hall families. :) We miss them!

5. HOSPITAL and SICK:  Sweet little Marie had to go to the hospital due to a scary episode she had at the house we believe to be a result of her 15 month old shots, and "fists disease". She is doing much better now. It was a crazy day/weekend for her parents, but she is much better now. However, now, Mary is sick, and Keaton is sick. Hopefully it will all pass in time for their big trip tomorrow.


6. CANADA: No...I'm not going to Canada, but Mary and Russell are! I am so excited for them! It is work related, but they will be able to visit friends, go on tours, etc. It is going to be such a great experience for them I hope. I really am going to miss them, but am very excited for them and have enjoyed hearing about all of their plans.

7. CELEBRITY STALKING:   My obsession with Swamp People has lead to stalking. I was elated seeing Troy and Jacob Landry at Mardi Gras in the Napoleon Parade. I was like a 12 year old who just saw Justin Beiber! Now... I have moved on to stalking since I can't wait for more swamp people (season 4!!), so when we were in Houma...I had to stalk J. Paul and R.J. We happened to drive passed the gym where J.Paul trains for boxing... I freaked and Mary I know thought I was crazy....little does she know! Then, she told me she and J.Paul went to the same high school. He graduated the year after her. So of course when we were in Houma we just happened to drive by J. Paul's...I mean... Mary's high school ;)

I know I know...I'm a creeper! I will try to back off lol ;) ....

Well that's the scoop! I don't know what I will do without the Guilfou's for 10 days!! Hopefully life isn't completely boring without them. I may go crazy though! And, I hope things start progressing with the house. 

Holla at me Y'all! 

Crafts, Kids, House Stuff, and Fun

Our "Rich Life" has definitely had some bumps in the road recently, but I am happy to say that our spirits are still high, we are keeping busy, and things are progressing!  We don't know a definite finish date for our house, but we are hoping before Thanksgiving!! It will definitely be bitter/sweet since we are having so much fun at the Guilfou's!!! We pretty much do everything together, and I can't really imagine life without them!!

Here is what we have been up to:

1. Crafts:
We have had a couple of birthdays that we have crafted for
1. Mary (we made her a painting for her kitchen wall.... it's behind the present parade in the picture )  :)
2. Braelyn who just turned one (we made her a bow hanger for her hair bows).

 And a wedding:
3. Amy LeBlanc (Mary's sister) who is getting married on the 27th and her bridal shower was this weekend. We made her a collage.

And...
4. I made a collage for Keaton's Dr. Seuss room :)
5. And a fabulous door hanger for outside my dad's classroom :)

I learned that Mary is so crafty and didn't even know it! I think we have created some monsters!! We already have our next projects lined up!@ :)


2. Kids:
These kids are so cute! They crack me up! They are so happy to see each other first thing in the morning and when they wake up from naps....they hug, kiss, and hold hands. They love riding in the truck together and tickle each other, share snacks, and just have a blast! They definitely love to be mischievous together-taking mud baths, eating grass, eating dirt, eating mulch....lots of eating haha! They are lost without each other.

Here are some pics from this week....

"Just the two of us"

Chillin, eating, and sweet Marie! Keaton does what ever she does, and what every she wants him to do ;)

 Botany Class 101: 

they love picking grass, clovers, and dirt. They have discovered lots in their botany research lol

Rainbow Rice: 

The kids love this rainbow rice (even though all we had was green). The rice didn't stay in the bucket long by itself as you can see. But they loved spreading it around, scooping it, and of course sharing ;) ;) 

3: House Stuff: 

We are so lucky to be one of the first in the community to receive our insurance money. We were ahead of the game and it is definitely a blessing and paying off. Hopefully we will have enough and everything goes smoothly. Things are really starting to progress! It has been a long 6 weeks, but we are finally seeing the light. We signed a contract with our contractor, there is sheet rock in our house ready to be installed, we ordered flooring that should be here by Friday and unloaded at our house so it will be ready when the contractor is ready, we should have our quote today from 'the cabinet guy' (as we call him) and from the countertop company, and we are starting to plan out paint colors and things. Here is what we are looking at :)

1. There is the dumpster outside our house! Good sign! Work is about to begin!

2. There is the sheetrock in the bottom picture; ready to be installed

 NOT THE BEST PICS, BUT...

3. The granite on the left, and the one in the middle are options for the kitchen countertops. (There will also be a better pic of the left one in my next blurb about "fun") It isn't really yellow like that. We are trying to decide which one we like best. It will go with The "Cordovan" color cabinet on the far right. It will most likely be the recessed cabinet like that too.

4. The bathroom will be: expresso cabinets like in the top left pic, framed mirror, square sinks (but set in the countertop), and white granite kind-of like the pic in the bottom right. (the little sample I have like the other two isn't photographing that well)

We are very excited to receive the quotes today, and our floors should be in by Friday which are beautiful Mahogany Porcelain Wood. 

4. FUN: 

We had cupcakes for Mary's birthday, bridal shower, Braelyn birthday party, football party, eating Mexican at La Carretta's (owned by our neighbor), volleyball games (and home practice every night), ping pong tournaments, company, cooking lots of good food and desserts, shopping, playing with babies, FHE at the Hall's, Avengers movie night, etc.! It has been GREAT!!! 

Even though we are going through the biggest trial we have in our married life thus far, I couldn't ask for more, I couldn't be happier, we couldn't be luckier, we couldn't have better friends and family....

We are truly blessed and have a wonderful "Rich Life"!!