Baseball and Earth Day

 

Baseball started this weekend for my nephews Brian and Brody! I love it! It was SOOO cold on Saturday! We froze our tails off!

 

Below is a picture of Brody playing short stop! He was fun to watch! He got two hits and he struck out once! He did great!

 

 

 

Below is my oldest nephew Brian! He played first base! He was too cool to turn and say hi. Must be the almost twelve year old in him!

 

 

Today we celebrated Earth Day by making a fun little craft. Aaron is working hard!!

 

And there's Mike, trying to get done as quickly as he can! Then, when he was finished, he asked me if we could do another project!?!? Oh kids!

 

 

Mike's finished project!

 

Aaron's finished project!

 

 

 

We are having a great day and enjoying slightly warmer weather here! Grass is cut, weed wacker is broken, but other than that, it's a good day!

Still Life, Tulips by Emil Nolde

Today in school, we had a little art lesson. The boys try to make their on version of the painting below entitled

Still Life, Tulips by Emil Nolde

Below is just a few pictures of the process! Aaron wasn't too concerned with the colors! But he did want to do what his big brother was doing!!

Below is Michael's picture! I think he did a pretty good job for a 7 year old!! He was so excited!

And finally Aaron with his picture! He actually threw me a smile!!! I love it!

Hope you are having a great morning!! It looks to be another lovely day!!!



Super Sunday!

 We had a long, but fun day at church today! Adam couldn't go because he's been sick but the kiddos and I forged ahead!!!

In Primary, my nursery leader, Sunbeams teacher and CTR teacher were all missing today!! The dynamic duo that makes up my nursery leader and Sunbeams teacher are husband and wife and they had two sick little girls. :( I was sad not to see them!!! And my CTR teacher, who is also the primary music leader, was seeing her hubby off as he was going to basic training. I felt sad for her!! I would miss my hubbs terribly if he was going to be gone for so long! So, my first counselor and I filled every place that we could and we had fun!!! As weird as it sounds!!

Any who!!! Below is a craft that we did with the Primary that I found awhile ago in an old Friend magazine that I thought we be fun as a Valentine's Day challenge. Since Choose The Right is the theme for this year, I decided to set up a 14 day CTR challenge where I challenged each child to do at least one good thing a day. Then I gave their parents slips of paper where they could record one of their good deeds and put it inside the containers they made. Then in two weeks, we are going to record all their good doings! The kids were excited about this challenge! I hope they all succeed!!

This is a pic of M holding his container ( I don't know what else to call it!!!) All the kids had fun doing this!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Sunday! I sure did!!!!!

Valentine's Snowman Family!

So, to go along with my block obsession, I decided to steer away from the word blocks and make a little snowman family. I love love love them!

Of course my hubby is the tallest one, then me in the pink scarf, M is the one in the black scarf and little A has the red scarf on. When I finished them, I giggled...... A LOT!! They make me happy!  I am not much for "winter" decorating so I wanted to make something "wintery" for V-day! I think it works!

Hope it is sunnier where you are because here in PA it's raining cats and dogs! Have a great day!

Valentine's Day Banner

Being that V-day is coming up very soon, I wanted to show the little banner and blocks that I made.

I made the hearts from some scrap cardstock and a heart stencil that I have. I like that it looks homemade! And I am very fortunate to have a brother who every once in a while throws me some unwanted lumber that I can use for my block making addiction! :)

I tried to stay away from all pinks and reds, seeing as I live with three guys! I love the green and blue touches! They make me happy!

And I was trying to think of a way to use up leftover candy canes so I made the little hearts hanging from the bottom. I still have NO idea why we buy candy canes?! We never eat them!

And below is just a random pic of my two boys making paper hearts for our windows. They love anything that has to do with glue!!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope everyone has a great day!!

FUN blocks

I've been wanting to show my fun blocks for awhile (like since the beginning of May) but life is crazy!! But I love these blocks! They scream SUMMER to me and I adore summer!! I love picnics and since picnics are FUN, I put the two together with a littlw whimsy in the form of ants!! Be kind to my art! I don't have any fancy machines, just paint and brushes!! I love to create and do things for free!! Or at least as close to free as possible!!

Thank you for the followers who leave such lovely comments!! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the summer!!

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!

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!

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! =)

Feeling Lucky??

For Dr. Seuss day today, we painted a Hop On Pop picture and we will read the book tonight! It's one we already own and we love it! It will be a fun reason to read it again!

Below is a pic of M painting his picture, even though his paper towel is covering it!

There is Little A doing his FAVORITE activity in the world! He would paint until his hands fell off!!

Well, since I am BEYOND ready for spring and we had an awesome thunderstorm last night, I decided to bring a little "green" to our home with a cool LUCKY sign!! My wonderful hubby cut a bunch of 2x4's up for me. He cut them 5,6 and 7 inches in length. After a quick sanding, I painted them the two green colors below. Then I allowed it to dry.

Then, I printed out the word lucky on my computer, made some "stencils" and traced the letters onto the blocks. I also found a cute shamrock shape and did the same. I then very slowly painted the letters and the shamrocks on the blocks. I LOVE THEM and I love the way they look on my shelf!!

I am so excited for spring and for the other blocks I will be making for Easter and Spring and memorial day and...well you get the picture!! I am a holiday and birthday FANATIC!!!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!!

Dr. Seuss Week!!

I am so excited to celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday! It's next Wednesday, March 2. We decided we would start today and celebrate for the entire week!



First on the agenda: Hit the library! And boy, did we hit it! We took almost all of the Seuss books they had! We decided to stop at 8, I think! We figured we could leave a couple for everyone else!



We've decided to read a book each day and do an activity. Today, we read " A Cat in the Hat" and made a hat. This is a pic of Little A with his hat and coloring page that I found at www.seussville.com. Great ideas there!

Here's a pic of M with his hat and coloring page! He's always willing to give mom a smile! =)

Here's a pic of both of the boys! I love them and hope they enjoy Seuss week! It's going to be a wacky week!

On a more serious note: Little A is turning 3 tomorrow!! Saturday is his Toy Story party! To infinity and beyond!!