Wordless Wednesday

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Sheila

Wordless Wednesday

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Sheila

Two of my favorite things....Zach and Krispy Kreme Donuts!

Wordless Wednesday

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Sheila

Wordless Wednesday- Christmas Fun

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Sheila

First was opening of gifts with Amanda who had to work Christmas Day.

Next we headed over to Pawpaw’s and Granny’s….

All the grandkids got squeezee hats!

The traditional card game

Zach decided that Uncle Steve had to help him all evening

Santa came

Haley got a stocking!

Finally we all enjoyed lots of gifts!

Wordless Wednesday-Happy Christmas Eve

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Sheila

My favorite Christmas decoration/craft….

Christmas Parties

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Sheila

This year, I have decided that I am going to make sure I get to the kid’s school events! So I decided to request the day off work on Friday to attend Kendall’s Party and of course I have no regrets.

On Thursday, I went to Lily’s Christmas party which was building a gingerbread house… my niece is in the same classroom and for this was actually seated at the same table as Lily so it was lots of fun!

Lily really enjoyed opening gifts from her class!

The front of the finished gingerbread house

The side of Lily’s finished gingerbread house!

Kendall’s party was on Friday afternoon and she was sent to 4 different stations. The teacher decided this year that parent would “travel” between stations with their children instead of being assigned on station to organize. I am sure this was one of the highlights of Kendall’s day, one on one attention!

Hot chocolate Reindeer

This was our first project and needed some instructions , we lost the mouth so I cut on out and after removing the eyes twice, I used a sharpie at home to draw them!

B I N G O

Finished Christmas tree projet

I love this juice box idea!

Making sure she didn;t miss any of the BINGO game.

Christmas tree project

Working hard on the Santa craft

Snack ended the day with a cute reindeer theme.

Each child in the class got a present to open and really love this especially my Kendall!

Playing hot “gingerbread man” in order to pick a present.

Kendall with both of her teachers!

Singing

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Sheila

It is apparent that we all LOVE music! What is exciting to me is that it would appear that the little guys all three have both an interest in music and some natural talent. I guess I would consider not being tone deaf, a natural talent! This weekend all three kids participated in a Christmas musical on both Saturday and Sunday night. I plan to post pictures of this tomorrow night. In addition, they also sang as part of our Sunday morning worship service. This is a song that they learn both the words and motions in the last two weeks so as you can tell someone is wrong on a couple of them. I am just glad to see them enjoy singing in public!

The first group is some close up on individual kids.

The next group will give you a better view of the entire group! I was learning to use our new camera so there are some problems with the flash as you can see but at least I am posting the same week not a month later!

Pancakes with Santa

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Sheila

This past weekend has been one of the busiest of the year, with multiple events on each day. So consider this your fair warning the next couple of post will be both Christmas and picture heavy. I did have an awesome trip to CVS on Sunday so I will plan to throw that in just to say I did!

Pancakes with Santa has been a tradition for us for at least the past 5 years if not longer. Part of the tradition is that Daddy takes the kids. I am sure this started because there was at least one kid at home that was too young to understand and enjoy. This year I was able to make several things while the kids enjoyed not only breakfast but a craft and a visit with Santa.

Pancakes and bacon always make a good breakfast.

Next was a neat craft that all three of the kids enjoyed.

Last was the talking to “Santa’s helper”. Even Zach realizes that Santa is really busy this time of year and needs some helpers. But you know each of the helpers reports back to Santa. Lily was given a choice of attending the breakfast and wanted to check it out; however she chose not to sit on Santa’s helper lap. I am already starting to miss my little kids!

Christmas Decorating

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Sheila

Christmas is my favorite time of year! I love everything about it, the music, the smells, the people and especially the pretty lights and decorations. This year, I decided to go all out and decorate with everything I had. I even ended up borrow some items from my parents just because I wanted more! First up is the tree…well trees in our case. This is the first year that I decided to have two Christmas trees. One is in the living room and the second in our bedroom. I am really excited to have a “Disney” Themed tree!

Next my goal was to place a Naivety scene in each room, there is not a picture of the playroom, Fisher Price set, which my kids LOVE to play with and was the one thing they asked to get out this year. I repurposed a tree topper for one of these and the stable Matt built out of wood. I LOVE IT! It really makes the piece look complete and instead of replacing I plan to keep for years to come.

Finally here are a couple of pictures of some other pieces that are located around the house! I did not included any of my snow village because this deserves an entire post of it’s own!