Blowing Bubbles~

I put these little bubble blowers in Dean's Birthday party goody bags. Of course the kids have been begging to play with them since then. So the first sunny and warm day we busted them out. Oh my was it fun!

Rainy Day Fun

It is a rainy Thursday and I am all of a sudden unmotivated to pack my kids in the car to hit the gym and run errands. I will do it tomorrow instead.
So by 9:30 this morning we had done our morning stuff, colored pictures and did school. What next? Snack time and Sesame Street then I googled how to make Play Dough.
It was so easy! The kids helped the entire time. It was awesome, they LOVED it!
It was a mini cooking lesson then we talked about the shapes etc .we stamped into the play dough.
We will definitely be doing it again!

Here is the recipe. I doubled it and it worked for all three of us to play with.

Potty Business

I have been sporadically putting Dean on the potty.
Yesterday he did #2 two times in the potty and went pee 3 times.
In fact his first anything in his potty was a #2.

Yesterday I plopped him on the potty and told him, " Mommy has to run to the other bathroom to get more toilet paper, okay?".

Sunday planning night a flop...

Do not have your planning time in front of the TV when the Amazing race is on. Or anything else at that matter. I sat for an hour with my normal "planning stuff" scattered all over the couch ( coupons needing to be sorted, bills to be paid, my last week's schedules to see what I needed to move to this week, grocery ads) and I sat there with only my schedule for the week planned up to Tuesday at lunch.
Arghh. I was mad at myself for allowing myself to succumb to the vortex of a trap the TV is for me.

Today...

I was driving today and heard the very familiar sound of flow masters flood my ears. It is a deep roar that permeates the road it is passing through. My heart fluttered.
WHY you may ask. And WHAT is a flow master.

Chillin with my peeps...

Yo Yo Yo

"What's up man. Yo Yo Yo."

Okay, so the pink polka dots soften the look...

Love my little man~

I've got Pages on my blog!
It is a new feature from Blogger.
So now I can separate my thoughts into categories.
I am a list maker...so this makes me happy.
Really...I make lists of my lists.
It is sad really...kind of nutty.
So if you look under the header, or the pictures of my family as Squashes...you will see the Pages I have made.
Disclaimer: I am in no way suggesting that I am excellent at any of these categories simply because I have made "Pages". I stink at a lot of these things. And I really do not expect people to " follow me" or blog stalk me to see what recipes I post. Oh my...I hope not. I am a poor to moderate cook.
But really, I am doing all of this alongside of you!
So please, feel free to laugh, cry and comment.

Love you all! All 7 of the people who read this! Elizabeth B came out and told me she was one of the 7. Love you E!

Yes, we read!

Nope, not them. But they do love to get in our bed and pretend to read our books.

Okay ladies, get ready for a monologue!
God has recently given me a hunger to read lately. I am still really in shock. Since Ella has been born, my time for reading has slowly dwindled. Time? What time?! There is zero to NO time to read with little ones. But over last summer and through the fall God was building a DEEP DEEP desire in my soul for more of him and reading his word.

Feb Fun

So Ella Reese has been writing letters since Christmas. It is so fun to watch her grow in learning letters and letter sounds and drawing. And having an Art degree from college...
I LOVE that she loves to draw and do art. So we always have our kitchen table daily covered in crayons, pencils, paper etc...all day. Sometimes it bothers me to have the mess,..but I love seeing her sit there for 30 plus minutes working away, creating something. And I almost always find something she has done left on the table, and I go to her and ask in amazement, "Did you do this?". All of the following pictures are things she did without me with her.

I love my family!

So this very thought of love and thankfulness for my family has been the highlight thought for me lately. And I began to remember all the pictures I have taken of them BECAUSE I love them so...are feeling very Unloved and Unshared right now.
So here are pictures from that getaway Ryan took me to in December. We went to Chattanooga and it was such a surprise and so much fun!

animal invasion

An elephant stampede?