Pantry Make-Over!

This weekend I was on a mission to clean up the pantry.  It has been getting worse and worse, and my darn house elf has gone on leave with no return date ... lol just playing.  I also had been given the task of cleaning out my cupboard above my stove, Rick is going to rip it down to open up my kitchen to the dinning room.  So my mission went from cleaning the pantry to clearing out the cupboard at the same time.  I had one big black bag of donating items, and 4 bags of garbage and outdated items!  I also had 2 bags of recycling that cleared up a lot of room!  I must say it is a relief to have the space organized.

Here is my cupboard above the island (please forgive the mess on the island, that is next on my list to clean up).

After a few hours I have the pantry cleaned up.  I took a few Rubbermaid bins to organize my cooking supplies (cake pans etc).  I took 3 Ikea Blue bins to put my craft supplies, cupcake decorating supplies and birthday party supplies.  The rest of my baking items went into (flour, sugar etc) went into Rubbermaid bins.  Thankfully every Black Friday Fred Meyers has them 1/2 off, I'll stock up again this year.  It turned out great, several hours but well worth it!

Yikes I'm almost embarrassed on how that looked ... lol

Weekend Wrap Wednesday ~ I think I may have sat some point?

Our weekends are usually crazy busy but this weekend was over the top! And guess what next weekend is looking the same :(.

Rick was earning some great brownie points! Gave the puppy a bath, used my new shark to mop the floor and showed up with roses for me. He's finally getting the hang of being a little romantic and helping out.

Saturday was a NUT house! First started with 6am working until 9am. 10am we hit Lowe's kids clinic! The boys love these, I think I do MOST of the work and have to use my mom stern voice a few times :).

Then home to for a nap and then back out we went! We stopped up at my parents house lasted about 20 minutes and my parents house which is like a museum of fine arts and antiques could no longer hold us :). 2:30pm we hit our first birthday part, it started at 3pm but we had to go early since we had another party at the same time. Of course the SeaHawks were playing and this is a big football family, so the first part of the party was the adults watching the game. Bad day for a party, but who the heck would have thunk we would be at that game.

My boys are so me and just plopped their butts down to eat :).

And we're off to a 2nd Birthday party, thankfully the game was wrapping up and we got there just in time for the cake (best part) and guess what plenty of food :)! The boys had fun, but a little at the breaking point ... hehe. But we did go overall and guess what we still had to hit the grocery store. And oh yeah I had to work my Saturday night job at 11:30pm. Oh yes it was a LONG day!

Sunday was church, home to do some cleaning, met up with Rick for lunch and then I tackled the pantry and drawers. Can I tell you I love Rubbermaid (no they didn't give me any I bought all my own, but it rocks). I do everything from the bulk section so it is best to put in a way I can see it and organized.

Ok I'm pooped just typing this and guess what next Saturday I found out we have the same thing going on except for the kids clinic so hey maybe I can get a nap in :).