Hallway Re-do!!

Since little A's cyst diagnosis thing, we decided to start improving the safety of our home. One of the first places we thought of was our hallway. There were no carpets or runners and when little A would run and play, he would slip and slide all over the place! So we bought these runners at Walmart and put them down. They have rubber underneath to help them stay in place! Then we found the paint in the screw up bin and it was 50% off! That was good enough for me! I came home and went to work. Even found a pretty little border to go up! The reflection in the pic is bad but it's ssooo pretty! I love it! It's the only place in our home that feels complete! That's what I've been up to this week! Now I wanna do all the other rooms in our house! In due time, I guess. =) Hope everyone is having a great day! Looking forward to general conference this weekend!! yeah!!!

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SCARY!!

Well, Sunday evening was scary. Little A fell off a stool and hit the back of his head and was rushed to the emergency room. They had to do a CAT scan and found that where he hit his head was fine. But the scan showed that he has a posterior fossa midline arachnoid cyst on his brain. I froze. I was scared out of my mind. The doctor at our local hospital says that it's fine and that he was born with it. I thought, OK. Now what? So they sent us to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh today to have a neurologist look over his scans. Let's just say that I didn't sleep last night. When we arrived, I was frantic. I felt foolish but I didn't know what to do. I met the doctor and he said that it's fine. Little A can be himself but he won't be allowed to play ANY contact sports like football or hockey. They want us to make sure he doesn't take too many hard hits to the head because it could cause bleeding that would be bad. I feel better knowing whats going on. The doctor says that most people live their lives not knowing they have anything like this because they've never had a CT scan. I feel blessed as a mom to know how to try to protect my son. I feel blessed for my husband having the priesthood and for my friends who helped comfort us and let us stay at their house and keep their kids up late just so my husband could be assisted in giving our son a blessing.

Thanks for reading and stopping by. Take a look around and count your blessings!

On a side note: we had a series of tornadoes that happened all around us today. Please pray for those who lost their homes and possesions in these storms. So far no lives were lost and that is something to be grateful for!

Loves of my Life!

Well, at least some of the loves in my life! As an early Mother's Day gift to my mom, my brothers and I got together and got all our kids pictures taken together. My mom has been asking for a while, so we figured why not! WOW was it hard to get all the kids to smile and look at the camera at the same time! At first it was just the kids and it wasn't working out! We spent an hour and a half trying to get a half-decent picture! Then my mom decided to sit with the kids and look what we got: AN AMAZING PICTURE!!


We put all the kids in rainbow colors and my mom just happened to have on black and white which I thought was perfect! In order of age it goes: in the yellow is Big B, in the red is Big K, in the blue is my M, in the green is Little B, in the purple is Big A, in the orange is my Little A and in the pink are my twin nieces Little K is on the right and S is on the left! I love these kids and I especially love my mom! She is such a strong lady and I'm glad that she is mine!

I'm grateful to a perfect plan put in place by our Heavenly Father that allows families to be together forever! I love the gospel and am so grateful for a prophet that leads and guides us today! To learn more visit : www.lds.org

When I started this blog, I wanted to have a way of expressing my feelings about the church and to share experiences with my family or anyone else who decided to stop by! I'm a nervous lady and this helps me to share what I love without having to verbally say anything!!

I appreicate anyone who stops by and value your friendships!

I feel so weird not being at church right now! The boys and I are SICK!!! The hubby went along without us! This is my way to have a little Sunday with me!!

Have a great day everyone!! =)

General Conference Match-up!

I LOVE conference weekend! I love the time we get to spend as a family watching all the speakers! So I was trying to find something fun for the kids to do while watching and something for the to do to start recognizing who all the apostles were. So I made a Spring themed matching game. I KNOW I have two boys and the flowers are a wee bit feminine, but I though it was cute! I made them funky colors so they look a little retro and not so girlie!

Below is a picture of one of the flowers that has Presidents Monson on it! I found a set of all the apostles and the prophet in this months issue of the Friend. I just printed a duplicate copy at www.lds.org.


The next picture shows how they go together. I think it's pretty cute! I just used a scrapbooking stencil for the flower and the circle. It worked out pretty well, I think!

This is the whole group, minus one because Little A took it, all matched together! I love them and can't wait to do some for the fall session!

We had a lovely warm day here in PA! I enjoyed it even though my WHOLE household is sick! We still got outside a bit for a sluggish game of hopscotch!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had a fun day today! We started the day by "discovering" that a leprechaun had left little green foot prints all over the kitchen (I can't believe I didn't get a pic =() and realizing that he also left a pot of rainbow filled treats on the counter! The boys were so excited! We then had green pancakes shaped like shamrocks!

Below is a pic of one of the pancakes. Doesn't look green, but it was REALLY green when you cut it open!


Here's M (and a little bit of the hubby!) eating their pancakes! M was trying to get some syrup! What good is a pancake without syrup?!

Little A wasn't with it today! He's a sick little guy =( But I took a pic anyways!

Here are rainbow cupcakes I made for a Primary activity last weekend. I iced them white and added rainbow sprinkles and the kids went bananas for them!! I got the recipe from www.familyfun.com. They take a while to make, but I'd be willing to make them once a year!

Hope everyone had a fun day! Make the most of your days, especially if you have little ones! They will be grown and moved out before you know it!!

Thanks!

To all the wonderful new people who have decided to follow little ole me, I say THANKS! I am learning very much thanks to the blogging world and am very grateful to those of you who stop by!!

I learned to put a button on my page! That was HUGE for me (I know pathetic, but huge for me nonetheless)! I did my very first link up thingy yesterday and that was FUNNO!! I love new ideas and I hope that you will always stop by and visit so we can learn from each other!

If it isn't raining where you are, I'm jealous! It just won't stop raining!! I shouldn't complain...I'm the first one come summer to complain about the lack of rain! Can't it just be 70 degrees and sunny?! Like Pleasantville?!

Thanks again for stopping by!! Have a lovely day!

10 Little Rubber Ducks!!

We read the 10 Little Rubber Ducks today and it is a cute little book! Another one I need to buy (I am going to be BROKE!)



Here is a pic of the boys "painting" glue onto their ducks and adding yellow tissue paper to it! What a mess it was! I thought it would be totally Eric Carle-y!

Here's the ducks, not quite finished because the boys got fed up with the tissue paper sticking to their fingers! It was a good idea in theory! Maybe I will finish them tonight...or maybe not!

I did my first link up thing over at Vintage Wanna Bee and it was fun! Got to see a TON of great ideas!

www.vintagewannabee.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by and visiting! Have a lovely day!

Beautiful day...

Just a quick little post tonight! I helped paint my brothers house this evening and I'm exhausted!! Good feeling to do some service though!!

Before my hubby and I painted, we attended a baptism. It was truly remarkable! The Spirit was so strong there and the young man that was baptized will make an awesome addition to our branch! =) I remember being baptized a little over ten years ago. I was a timid, shy 18 year old girl, scared to death of what I was getting myself into! The gospel absolutely changed my life for the better! I am stronger knowing who I am, and knowing my worth to a loving Father in Heaven! Being the only member in my family was the HARDEST part. They didn't understand and some of them still don't. When I got sealed in the temple, I devistated my whole family. Leaving my mom to go to the Washington, D.C. temple just about cracked me. I am glad I did what I knew was the right thing for me. Now my mom understands. She supports me and I love her for that!

I love the gospel of Jesus Christ! To learn more visit www.lds.org.

Thanks for visiting!! Have a great night!!

The Very Clumsy Click Beetle

Truth is, I tried REALLY hard not to do a craft today and just read the book but the boys wouldn't have it! So I did the craft I had planned and it turned out pretty cute!

We read The Very Clumsy Click Beetle today and it's the cutest book ever! Definitely one to buy!

We made our very own click beetles. I printed out beetles from the computer , let them color them, hot glued pipe cleaners for legs and hot glued the body onto a clothes pin. You need the clothespins with the springs so when you push down, they CLICK!! It works wonderfully!

Here's a pic of the boys clicking them at the table! Very fun project to do!

Have a great day and stop by soon! I love visitors! =)

Little Cloud

Today was a great day! We went to the library and returned all of our Seuss books in exchange for some Eric Carle books! We own The Very Hungry Catepillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, so we got a couple of the other titles he has written!

Below is just a random picture of my boys helping cook dinner! They are good helpers!!

The book for today was Little Cloud and we read it as we did our craft. The boys were very interested in this book! I love that they love to read!

I drew some shapes from the book onto some white paper. I traced a lot of them because I'm not the best at drawing!

Then I gave each of the boys a cup with glue in it and a paint brush and they painted the glue onto the paper and added cotton. We did a rabbit, plane, two trees, and a hat! They sat and did the entire project and that's really good for Little A!

Thanks for stopping by! It was a wonderful, cold day here in PA!! But the sun was beautiful and abundant and I will take that! Anything but snow!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Last Day of Seuss!

Well today wasn't as exciting as I had planned! I woke up with the WORST headache and it's still here!! I'm starting to feel a little better but I still can't wait for bed!

We read the Sneetches today! I love it! We also have a cartoon of it that we watched! It has a good message about not judging others and being OK with yourself! I loved it! I made the boys star-belly sneetch shirts! I know the shirts are supposed to be yellow, but I'm trying to do with what I have and the boys loved them!


Here's M's shirt! You couldn't see it in the pic above because all of the hugs he was giving his brother!

And here is my set of Spring blocks!! I love them too! Not too bad for only spending about $1.50, eh?

What a fun week we had!! I really enjoyed showing the boys the wacky world of Dr. Seuss! I noticed while we were at the library last week that there were just as many Eric Carle books as their were Seuss!! Well almost! So we are going to work with Carle books this week! I love the library! Looking forward to our trip in the morning!

Green Eggs and Ham

In honor of our all time favorite Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham, we made catepillars from an EGG carton! I cut the carton in half and then each side in half again. They painted them and then added glitter. I added the antenna and button eyeballs with hot glue and wah-lah! Catepillars!!

Below is a pic of M painting his catepillars. For some reason they only painted the tops! I had to tell them it was ok to paint the sides! They are funny guys!

Here is Little A painting his little heart out! He is also in potty training mode, FINALLY! He did well this morning, but isn't doing as hot this evening! I guess it's a work in progress!

Here are the finished products! I think they are adorable!! My kids make my heart sing!! Love them to pieces!

I've been working on my Spring blocks and hopefully will have them to show tomorrow! There is only 1 good side to my hubby working evenings: I can do crafty things for 3 WHOLE HOURS! =)