I love living where we have 4 seasons, but I’m not always ready for them to go and change on me! I feel like we got no where near enough snow this Winter. Luckily, towards the end we had a nice storm and the kids got ttheir sledding in. I think one of the most [...]
Here is another one of our advent calendar activities! There are so many hand and footprint craft ideas and I think they’re fun so we did our family wreath and then we tried out something I thought up on my own: a family tree made of footprints. I had thought of this last year but [...]
Well I thought we’d try to make some of the gifts we give this year. Its not going as well as I’d hoped, I think they are on the young side for some of the things I had in mind. At first they liked making these ornaments but after making 1-2 they lost interest. I [...]
I was planning on making an advent calendar with fun things to do the first 25 days of December but when I saw this post from the Artful Parent I decided that instead of the traditional advent with the little doors, I would make mine out of gingerbread paper dolls. I just did it really [...]
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here are some pictures of Halloween at school this week of Ethan and Jamie with their friends (Ben has been sick since Wed so he just gets one day of Halloween today). I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween and I’ll be sad when its over. It is definitely my favorite holiday. I love having [...]
I never got around to posting about Ethan’s birthday party, probably because I hardly took any pictures at all, but I figured I better get to it before Jillian’s birthday gets here! There is Ethan in the orange shirt, its the ONLY pictures that I got of him during the entire party! What a cute [...]
Oh I LOVE fall (yes even these CHILLY fall days this week)! Here are the kids at 3 different local farms, last week seeing animals and getting pumpkins and yesterday on a trip to pick apples. I actually got a bunch of pictures with all 4 together! Ethan is so good holding Jillian and Ben [...]
John was gone with the boys (and Alex) for 4 days last week but luckily he took a lot of pictures! I am so glad they had fun visiting Grandma Penguin and the lake. We will all be going and spending a week there soon and these pictures are getting me excited thinking of the [...]
Ben and Jamie really liked their party yesterday and I’m so happy! I think we had 19 kids, 2 babies and 15 adults. This was the EASIEST party that we have ever had for our kids! We had it at the roller rink during “trike trot and roll” time where the kids can use skates [...]
Here is the birthday boy on each of his birthdays: Baby Ben all 9lbs 10oz of cuteness! Ben looking like a cupie doll with his first birthday cake! Grandma got him a big wheel for his 2nd birthday, its pretty worn out now. Ooh we started a Chuck E Cheese tradition on his 3rd birthday, [...]
