Easter--2010

We had my family over for an Easter FHE. We had a yummy pancake breakfast and then an egg hunt for the kids. We had so much fun we forgot to have a lesson (as if we could have with the kids all on a huge sugar high!).

Release the Hounds!

Some Stuff I've Made

I made this for Valentine's Day after seeing it here. Then, I decided that I liked it too much to put it away after February. So, I decided to change out the ribbon for each holiday. Today Nathan suggested putting colored cardstock behind it. He thought it was too plain being all brown and white with a little color in the ribbon. Now it looks like this.

I also made this after seeing it here.

Next up is this framed St. Patrick's Day thing I made after seeing this:

I'm still trying to decide if I want to take the time to distress and stain it.


Last is an Easter project. After 2 bags of jelly beans and about 15 mini hot-glue sticks I have this to show:

I originally saw this here.

Matthew Took My Advice

Out of Gel?

Use booger!

Spirit Week

This week is Spirit Week at Hailey's school. They schedule it to coincide with Dr. Seuss' birthday and each day's theme comes from one of his books. We found out about it Monday (as in the first day of Spirit Week). 

Monday was hat day (The Cat in the Hat), but since we didn't know Hailey didn't get to wear a hat.

Tuesday was Read Across America Day and they were supposed to dress up as their favorite book character. Hailey was Eloise for Halloween so this should've been easy, right? Wrong. She wore her skirt to church on Sunday and didn't put it in the hamper so it didn't get washed. Not only that, I had an ironing mishap on Sunday with her white shirt and it was out of commission as well. So, no Eloise. 

Today is crazy sock day for Fox in Socks. The only socks Hailey has are no-show socks. I figured I could use my morning walk and head up to Walmart and get her a cheap-o pair of crazy socks. No such luck. Can you believe they had NO crazy socks for little girls? Not one single pair. Luckily, my friend Ammanda said  she had a pair of socks and some trim that I could have to make Hailey a pair of crazy socks. I got home from my walk and started on the socks. I used the glue gun to put the trim on to the socks. They looked great. Then we went to put them on. The socks wouldn't even go over all of her toes. Apparently, I needed to stretch the socks while I glued the trim on. I tried to get them to stretch a little, but it didn't work. I told Hailey she would just have to wear mismatched socks and that would have to be crazy enough. She was VERY disappointed and began crying. I was desperate. I thought of Nathan's argyle socks. At this point, I really didn't care that they would be too big. Besides, that would just add to their craziness, right? Hailey loved them. She walked out the door one happy little girl. 

These are the socks that didn't work.

Here is Hailey with her crazy socks.

A close up of her crazy socks.

Tomorrow is green day for Green Eggs and Ham. We have that one taken care of with a green outfit.

Friday is "wear a shirt that tells somewhere you've been" day for Oh, the Places You'll Go. Unfortunately, we don't buy souvenir shirts for our kids. We are going to stretch this one a little and she'll wear her Coyotes hockey shirt since she has been to a Coyotes game.

Hailey's Valentines

This is Hailey's valentine. I got the idea from this blog. I think they turned out cute, but the originals look more like the little girls are actually giving you the sucker. Oh well, she is happy with them and can't wait to pass them out tomorrow.

What's in a Name?

Today I overheard Kade and Matt playing. I heard a bunch of jibberish and then "jerk". Now, jerk is a word that we don't like to hear at our house, but somehow Kade decided that would be his "go to" word (well, that and booty, but I digress). So, when I heard him say jerk, I reminded him (for the millionth time) that we don't say jerk. He pointed to the play cell phone he was talking on and said, "But mom, his name is Jerk."

Looking for the Bright Side

The kids love to play outside. Now that we have the swing set they love being outside even more. It is great that they have something to play on. I enjoy being outside, too. There is, however, nowhere for me to sit and relax outside while they play (well, except the grass which is oftentimes wet). So, sometimes I don't go out there.

Yesterday was one of those days.

Rachel and I stayed upstairs while the other three played outside. While they were playing I could hear the screen door open and close...a lot. I knew it was Matt coming in and going back out. I didn't hear much else so I wasn't too concerned. Then, I started hearing clanging glass. I could tell from the sound that Matt was playing in my flour/sugar/rice canisters. For some reason, Matthew thinks raw rice is yummy. No idea why, but he likes to eat a few (handfuls of) grains at a time. I went downstairs to get him off the counter and send him back outside and found him in the rice. I got him back outside and cleaned up the rice and didn't think much about it.

Until today.

I was on the phone with my sister and I happened to see my canisters. This is what I saw.



So, what's the bright side you ask? After getting the rice out of the flour I now have 5lbs-ish of freshly sifted flour. Of course, my sugar is also sifted, but I don't think I've ever seen a recipe that calls for sifted sugar.

BIG Pictures!

I just learned how to make my pictures BIG. I LOVE IT! Here's a link for anyone interested. It is super easy and just takes a couple of minutes to do some HTML editing. And, no, you don't have to understand HTML to do this.

http://madsennicole.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-your-pictures-bigger-on.html

The Kids Are in Heaven

We bought this swing set from my sister. The kids love it. We got it yesterday morning and had it put together by lunch. When I left to go to stake conference at 5:30pm they were still outside playing. Spring is gonna be great for them.

He's kind of hard to see, but that blue shirt and khaki pants is my nephew. He and my niece were over because their dad was helping. They love this swing set as much as my kids. They were a little upset when it was time to go home.

(Thanks to everyone who made it possible for us to get this. We are very grateful.)