Teacher Appreciation

It's teacher appreciation week and this is what Little D will be giving to his teacher.

I found the idea for tissue paper flowers on One Pretty Thing. (If you don't already know what that is you should definitely go there and check it out. But only if you want to find like a billion projects that you have to do just because they are so cute.)



After finding it there I looked some more on the Internet for different variations and this is what they turned out to be. They were so cheap and easy to make. I made them a little more fun by adding Hugs and Kisses as the flower center.



I found a little dollar vase at Target and added a ribbon and there ya go.

I love right now!

It is the perfect weather day. I Love this time. Late spring, when its no longer cold so no need to use your heater and its not too hot yet so there is no need to use the air. Right now it is about 77 degrees and mostly cloudy. Its perfect. I can sit in my house and have all the windows open and feel the cool breeze. I wish everyday was like this.

I also love this time of year because it is perfect for PICNICS!


I just finished my picnic basket and I am so excited to take it out on its first official picnic. I told the kids that we could go on Saturday.


I found the basket at the Home Goods store in Phoenix. I made the lining and also made a coordinating blanket and napkins. I found matching plates at Target and I was lucky to find ones that matched.
I only wish I would have put the elastic in a casing of matching fabric. But oh well. It holds forks, knives, spoons, straws, and napkins on the top. (the side that doesn't have anything in it is for the other 3 napkins that I will finish tonight.)


Here is the inside complete with a pocket for a trash bag and wipes. (cause you always should have them handy) The lining is able to be removed and washed if needed. My sister has redone a few picnic baskets and they always turn out great. You can check hers out here.

What did you do with your Saturday?

What every other LDS woman does.... Ready the Garden!

Big J and I spent all day getting things ready for our Garden. We are a little late in getting things ready this year. But better late than never. So today we put up a fence to keep "Chew-bacca" out. BTW I am now referring to Cheyenne as Chewbacca because she will chew up anything if left out. And she actually looks a little like Chewbacca. Its funny because she will sit outside the gate now and whimper because she wants to be in there with everyone else.


Anyway. Big J was good enough to get that put up. Then he tilled the dirt for the 3rd time in the last month. We never seemed to get to it fast enough and soon it was rock hard again. So once that was done I started shoveling and shoveling and shoveling. Big J wants to try rows this year so I made rows by shoveling little pathways in between. Big J said that I should have made the paths smaller but I refuse to have to squeeze through the corn and other veggies. I wanted to be able to walk through without having to worry about stepping on anything.


And I am so sore from doing all that shoveling.

We also got the sprinklers hooked up and a new timer so that hopefully we wont have a repeat of last year, when the batteries went dead and killed about all my plants.

I have some seedlings that are just starting to come up and the kids are very excited to look at them each day and see how they are doing. I am going to have to plant most things from starter plants because I am starting so late but that's less work for me so its all good.

I can't wait to get my garden signs put in.

Garden Signs

They are finally done! I have been wanting to make these since last summer and now they have been done. My sister Samurai Mom gave me the idea last year. All that is left to do is to coat them with a finish so they will last and then nail them to a stake.

Hopefully this weekend we will have our garden fence put up so that I can actually plant the garden and have something to put these signs in.


I printed the wording using my friends Cricut machine. And painted the veggies and flowers by hand (obviously). They are not that great but at least all the kids could tell me what were. With the exception of one..... The Pepper. I should have done beans or something easy.


Oh well. They are finished and that is all that matters.

Little A's first Graduation

Yep today was the last day of Pre-School for Little A. (her teacher is having a baby in 10 days.) So today they had a little graduation. They sang the ABC's and The days of the week song. It was cute.

Miss Michelle had made them all little graduation hats and gave them all a diploma. She also gave them each a bucket filled with little toys. Little A has been outside since we got home playing with her sidewalk chalk.

I am sad to see it end. Now I will no longer have an excuse to miss Tues and Thursdays work outs. But mostly because that was the only time that I had to be able to go to the store or somewhere with only 1 child. I decided the other day that I can no longer take all 3. They all just end up fighting or something. So now I will have to only go out when Big J is home. Which might be better because it will save me money. (he is hardly home before 7pm) and then I won't feel like going out. This will work probably until Little A starts Kindergarten. She starts in the fall and I can't believe it. CRAZY!

That's one way to group date!

Today Little D came home and said, "Mom, I have a meeting with the girls at Cold Stone, and I have to go."

I said, "What?"

His reply, "And dinner too so... I might be late getting back. So can I go?"

"When is it?"

"5 O' Clock" (and yes he said O clock)

"Where else are you going?"

"Lillia's Grandma's house and then Cold Stone"

"What day is this happening?"

"Saturday, every Saturday."


I think that I just went into the future 10 yrs!

A Crazy 3 Hours

This evening was crazy, Little C decided to stop eating his dinner and have a good cry. A 45 minute break down over apparently nothing. After he finally stopped crying we had to rush out of our house to take a meal into a fellow sister, stop at the store for bread on the way and on the way home, pick up cookies for a funeral tomorrow. After we got home the dog decided to race across the busy street to freak the neighbor kids half to death. Then just when I thought that I had her on the way inside she spotted the birds that have been nesting in our bark and decided to chase it half way down the block. Then Little A got her fingers pinched in a door, and I found Little C's bowl of popcorn thrown in his little potty. And its only 6:30pm.

Is it bed time yet?

And even after they are finally in bed I just know that Little D will come out about 5 times to "tell" me something. However once he comes out and I say what? he will say,"hmmm.... let me think".

Is it tomorrow yet?

Hair too...

Along with putting food in his ears he has been also doing this.


I looked over after dinner the other day and saw that he had put his noodles on his head. I know that a lot of kids do this at times but it was just funny the way that he would apply the noodles.

After I saw this, I watched him discretely (I pretended to be looking at the pictures that I had already taken) for a little while and saw his technique. He will slowly pick up a noodle and gently place it on his head then the next noodle would start to go on his head, only he would change his mind and put it up to his ear. At this point he saw me watching and put the noodle back into his bowl. And flashed me this smile.

Little stinker. Yesterday we had Dutch Puff and he had rubbed his syrupy hands all over his head. It looked like he has slicked it down with oil or like his hair was glued to his head.