fun site

My wonderful mother in law introduced my to this site a while back, If you get a chance you should check it out. She is form portland area and full of good ideas. Lot's of yummy recipes and even today a fun giveaway.
If you try any of the recipes let me know which one you likes. We like the parsley chicken and I might attempt the oreo truffles for valentines day for some of my family and friends if I start feeling better. Check out the site and let me know what you think.

http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com

L,M, and N

Letter L was fun even though I did feel like we have been a bit lazy with our letters of the week we got right back on track with L. We sang about five little lady bugs, made cute little love bugs, decorated the letter l with letters, made lasagna,made cute lambs out of cotton, and wrote letters ...




With m the kids favorite things was some cute mailboxes we got at target, they love getting mail. The smiles on there faces when they woke up and daddy had left them a letter was so precious. Little mister still ask me to read it to him every now and then. They also liked it when we made mud... they took turn shaking the pudding, pounding the cookies and putting the worms in...


After one bite Little Mister asked if he could have a Banana instead...

Numbers on our number n, Making our own newspaper stories, Little Mister was very interested in learning about how someone becomes president so we included that in his paper. He also wrote a story about the flat tire mom got the day before.



December we had yellow stars of joy...

I still have pictures of letter o week to download and this week is full of fun P adventures. Monday was painting groundhogs ,today was penguins and polar bears, tomorrow is pirate day , thursday is Prince and Princess day, and we end with purple day on Friday. I am sure we will have plenty to share in the weeks to come.

meme pictures

In an attempt to get annual valentines day pictures I took the kids to the mall. Not my first choice but that's where Little Mister wanted to go. I think just because he really wanted to go to the lego store. What I thought would be simple turned out to be crazy. I only got one good picture of the three of them together and it is of them walking away from us...








I think we will try again another day to get all three at once...

weekend projects

This weekend I was feeling crafty again. We went to a "family" birthday party for a very sweet 3yr old, so I decided every little girl should have there own tutu. I ran to the craft store got supplies and a about an hour later...


The next day I was looking through left over fabric and figured I had enough fabric left over to make Little Miss a skirt. So I adapted a pattern I found on line at Oliver + S Lazy Days skirt pattern. I had to make one quick trip to the store for ribbon but there is nothing like making a skirt in a about an hour and only spending about $2. I wish I had a picture of little Miss smiling but this was the best I could get...

Thanks to my mother in-law for teaching me to sew! I only hope to do as well as you someday.

forever February

For New Years day the kids each got a new calendar. Little Miss got a Disney princess one. She points to it in the morning and says "belle". Thanks to Cousin "meme" she has learned about her Disney princesses early.

Little Mister got the star wars calender that he has been asking for for the time he first saw it back in November. After looking at all the pictures he asked if he could hang it up with the picture of Leah. I explained to him that her picture was for the month of February and this was January he would have to wait. He thought for a moment then replayed "can it just be February all year?"

Weekend away

I had an amazing opportunity to spend some of the weekend with a wonderful group of ladies. We headed to the beach to learn more about photography and editing from each other and even do a couple photo shoots. I learned so much from each of them and not just about photography. This is one amazing group of mommas and I am so thankful for the laughter and friendship we share. It was amazing we were able to get together and leave our kids behind, hopefully we will get the whole group together next time. We went to the beach shortly after we got there and I was able to get a few pictures right away.



On Saturday we split up into two groups for two different photo sessions. I joined with the group taking pictures of a very cute 2yr old Noah. I had so much fun just watching learning and taking a few pictures too. Here a few of my favorites I took that day..







Thank you to Noah and his family for letting use spend the morning with them. Thank you to my fellow photo mommas for sharing your amazing talent and friendship. A big thank you to Aunt Sissa, Grandma and Grandpa, and Brian for taking such good care of LIttle Mister and Little miss while I was gone!

politics summed up by a 4yr old

I know two post in one day is a little much but I had to share the "conversation" I over heard yesterday. We talked to Little Mister about how George Bush is no longer our president and how we will now have a new president. Later in the day I heard him playing in his room..

" ring ring
hello, this is Little Mister
who is this
oh hi George Bush...
yea, yes, ok ,ok, sure
oh really
well we all have to take turns being in charge...
ok
you are a good president
bye"

"ring ring
oh hi Barack Obama
yes, yes, ok, ok
well make sure you are a nice president
oh I can be president one day too!
ok thanks bye"