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!

Eight is Great!!!!!

On Januray 12, 2013, these two special little boys were baptized members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!!

Brody (left) and Micahel turned 8 at the end of last year and couldn't wait for the big day!!!

 

Below is a picture of my mom, who was baptized last February, with her two grandsons!

 

As you can see, she is a proud grandma!!



The next picture is of Michael's other grandma, her friend, my husband Adam and Michael!

 

 

Below is a picture of most of the kiddos that attended their baptism!

 

 

The next is my husband getting ready to baptize the boys and I snuck in this pic!!

 

 

 

Here is Michael's Aunt Lauren, Pap, my husband and Mike, again!

 

 

The last picture is my favorite! I walked into where they were filling up the font, and this is what I saw. These innocent precious children, watching in anticipation for the font to fill. Don't know why, but it brought me to tears!

 

 

 

We had a fun day, filled with friends and family! I wish I would have taken a picture of the food table and decorations! I don't know what I was thinking!!!

 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day, wherever you are! (Because in PA, it's FREEZING!!!!!!)

Freezer Cookin'

Well, since I am officially obsessed with Pinterest, I figured I may want to give some of the ideas a whirl!!

I decided to try my hand at freezer cooking. And after about 5 hours of work, I ended up with 20+ meals!! WOHOO!!

I am pretty tired and after a good floor cleaning and two dish washer loads later, I am done. I even made some amazing gravy from the roast drippings in one of the recipes!! Yummo!!

Below are just some of the recipes I made! Haven't tasted any of them yet! But boy they smelled and looked great!!

Above is pepper steak

Above is italian beef

Then some steak fajitas

Above is beef stroganoff

teriyaki pork chops

honey garlic chicken

And the last picture is of my silly boys!!!!!!!!!! They didn't want a smiley picture so they did a silly one!!

So, that's been my day!!!! I hope your days are lovely and full of goodness!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!!!

Summer Lovin'!!

Nothing says summer (at least to me) like buzz cuts!!

I tell meyself every year that I won't cut their hair too short, but then I can't resist!!

My Mike and Aaron look "like Daddy" , as they say! Their dad keeps a very short cut! I like rubbing my hands across their heads with their soft chicken fuzz!

Looking forward to working in the garden tonight, IF the rain will stop!! My tomatoes and pepper plants are looking AWESOME!! So excited to eat fresh, homegrown produce!

My Loves!

Yes.....I downloaded all my pictures onto my computer and I am having a BLAST posting them for you to see!!!!

My two boys have been the most unexpected crazy things in my life!!

Unexpected because when I was young I never saw myself having children!

Crazy because I then met my hubby!! I didn't know I really wanted kids until I met the man I would spend eternity with!!!

I am completely and totally in love with all three of my guys and am oh-so very blessed for them!

Here's a pic of them at our local mall by their favorite thing.....the water fountain!!

Here they are on the train! They would have ridden it like a million times if I would have let them!! Look at those faces!!!!

Here they are on the railroad tracks behind my mom's house! They LOVE the trains and like watching them go by!!!

                                Here's my M, laying on a big old rock, sun blaring in his eyeballs, but he is as happy as always!!

             Little A didn't like the sun at all but I got an OK shot of him! I couldn't believe he sat still long enough to take this picture!

                                                           Here he is again!!!!!! So cute! I could squeeze him to pieces!

                                                                            Here's M! Being his happy silly self!

                                                                   M in the leaves! Always a poser for the camera!!

                           LOVE this pic of Little A! Of course I had to screw it up and chop his body out of the picture!!!!!

I truly feel blessed for what I have been given! I don't know what I would do with myself if they weren't a part of my life! They complete me!! (tear!)

I'm Dreaming of Christmas....already!!

Yes...it is true. Christmas is on my mind the day after it's over!!!! I have been thinking of more personalized gifts to give my children and A LOT of ideas came flooding to my mind!! But first, I want to share a couple of photos of my family.

Here is my hubby and M watching some local "pilots" fly their planes. It was fun, as you can see by M's face!! Little A is behind them, not paying much attention!!

And here is Little A, in all his glory! This is what he did while I was loading our dishwasher!! He looked so funny that I had to take a pic! What mom wouldn't????

And below, is my latest creation: the checkerboard. M and I were a the library and they have this hand painted checkerboard there that he loves. I thought, I could do that!! I wanted something that he could grow into that didn't look too kiddish, and this is what I came up with!!! I love it!!! I hope I can keep it a secret until Christmas!!! Now, what will I do for checkers???? I'm so excited to figure it out!!!

It was an absolutely gorgeous day here in PA!!! I mean, GORGEOUS!!!! Hope you all had a lovely day! Thanks for stopping by!!!

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!