St. Patrick's Day Fun

 My 2nd week of planning a cooking activity for Brayden was so much fun.  We made these cupcakes for Charlie's class and for our Team Kid class at church.  Brayden had so much fun helping make the cupcakes.  I totally spaced and did not get any pictures of him helping me cook.  I will do better next week. 

 Making shamrock prints with cookie cutters.  We also made them with green peppers.

 The boys came up with this activity all on their own.  They drew rainbows and then made shamrock prints under the rainbows.  Then they asked for cotton balls to make clouds.  They turned out so cute.

                                                          

 Shamrock sun catchers

Brayden asked for a new piece of big green paper.  He

then drew a  picture of a cat and a person.  Then he wrote his name

all by himself on the paper.

Warm March Weather

This winter was a major bummer in the snow department.  Charlie only had one snow day and it was the first day back to school after Christmas break.  There was hardly any snow and it was gone by noon.  The boys got new sleds for Christmas from their cousins and they did not get to use them once. 

Now our March weather has been very warm so we have spent a lot of time outside playing.  The boys love being outside.

                                                             Dressed up like Woody

   Brayden used the side walk chalk to draw his cousins

                                                                 Ashley and Travis!

Playing Jake and the Never Land Pirates Pirates.  They have treasure in the bucket.

We are holding out hope for some snowy days next winter. For now we are just savoring these warm sunny days.

My Little Chef

Making No Bake Cookies with Oatmeal

 Yummy!!!

Brayden loves to cook and help in the kitchen.  Anytime that I am in there it is only a matter of minutes before he is moving his chair over saying, "I want to cook too!"  I am trying to intentionally plan a cooking activity for him weekly.  He is always welcome to help me in the kitchen but I want to plan a specific recipe for him to help me with.  He already has a list of things he wants to make.  His list includes cookies, chocolate bananas, cake-pops, brownies, and smoothies.

We Love Teacher Workdays!!!

Last week Charlie had a teacher workday so he got to stay home all day. We loved every minute of it!!!! I heard parents complaining about the kids being home for the day and I just do not understand that. We have only had one snow day this year so he has not been home a lot. I was just as excited as he was to have a day off. We started our day by just being lazy and playing around the house. We had his favorite breakfast of "Big" waffles and then we just played. Later we met daddy for lunch and then headed to the Health Adventure. We had lots of fun at the Health Adventure and then we headed to Target to look at the toys and get ideas for both of the boys up-coming birthdays. Once home the boys finalized their birthday party lists and then we played, played, played. It was just a wonderful day!!!

Rock Stars

My two little Rock Stars have been rocking our house lately.  They are so into music and singing.  They love to put on shows for us and we love to watch them.   They sing us a lot of country songs as well as Bible songs.  Charlie has even started just making up words as he goes.  He is really pretty good at making up lyrics as he goes and he always adds in a funny  twist.  I am so thankful for the gift of music and the sweet music that these boys make on a daily basis.

WOW!!!

WOW!!!  2012 I can not believe that you are here.  This new year is going to be wonderful.  I am so excited about all that God has in store for us.  I can not wait to watch it all unfold.

I have not been on here for awhile.  I spent a lot of time in Charlie's class before the holidays working with the kids on different craft projects.  I loved every minute of it.  Being there with the kids makes me so happy while at the same time it makes me miss teaching so bad.  But I love my life and I am so thankful that I have this time to spend with the boys and that I am free to help out in their classes.  God has truly blessed me.

Poor Charlie missed the first two days after break because he had strep.  Poor baby was so sick.  Once we got him diagnosed and some antibotic in him he was a new kid with-in 12 hours.  .
I am just going to show you a few pictures from our holidays.  I am hopefully going to start posting on a more regular basis very soon. 

I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed 2012.

We are pretty bummed around here that we have not had a good snow yet.  We are keeping out hope that one will be on its way soon.  We will be doing a lot of snow crafts in the next week hoping to bring some snow our way.