Silly Sisters
Kaitlin and Samantha LOVE their bath time. Kaitlin especially loves laying down in the water and relaxing. Silly girls!
New Tile
Back in December we started ripping out the mismatched laminate flooring in our kitchen and entryway and put in new tile. Here are some during and after pictures of our new floor. These pictures where taken before we put up new baseboards. I love how it turned out and love love love that we have tile now in our dinning area instead of carpet! It was a messy project, but the kids thought it was pretty fun to eat in the laundry room. We still catch ourselves once in a while going into the front room to get food from the fridge. It is nice to have everything put back together.
Weight Loss Challenge!
We decided if we wanted to actually following through with our New Year’s resolution to lose some extra pounds we needed some accountability and a reward.
So, we are starting a competition with anyone who wants to join! Everyone puts $10 into a pot and at the end of 3 months the person who has lost the most weight loss % wins the money. Don't worry you do not have to tell anyone your actual weight, just your percentage lost. We will be doing mini competitions throughout too for more motivation.
We created a blog at 2011WLC.blogspot.com that gives more information about how it will work and where people can share healthy recipes, workout tips, or anything else along with posting our weekly weight loss numbers.
Email me today if you are interested and want to join in the fun! This is open to anyone, the more the merrier!
A year ago...
Can you believe this was a year ago?
Time flies when you are busy!
Happy Birthday Kaitlin and Samantha!
We have survived so far the endless diapers and bottles, the sleepless nights, and the constant search for two binkies. We love you Kaitlin. We love you Samantha. We are so grateful for your little busy hands, your giggles and smiles, your silly dance moves, your cuddles and kisses, and most of all how both of you have brought so much love into our little family.
Favorite
My new favorite website! My friend shared this with me and now I am sharing with you....
It makes me want to be a better crafty creative mommy.
We are going to have fun printing out things, coloring, and playing today since it has been POURING outside for forever now.
Here are some of my other favorite creative sites...
Now if only I had enough energy and time to have my children do all of fun creative things on these sites....
What are your favorite creative sites for us moms?
Super Cute
You can make a customized little movie of Santa talking to your child. We made one for Jason and I am super excited for him to see it.
If you want to make your own click here. Just thought I would share.
Birthday Boy
Happy Happy Birthday Jason!
He had one wish for his birthday party this year.... an "alien dance party." So we dimmed the lights, put up glow in the dark stars, included a twinkle light "disco ball" in the middle of the room, switched on the strobe light and had a dance party. He had a wonderful day with a few friends over to celebrate. We decorated spaceships made out of paper plates and bowls, ate cake pop "alien robots," and of course danced a little.
Yesterday he opened his presents from us and his Aunt Jenny who was so nice to come for the weekend to be with him. About a month ago I bought a trampoline for his present. I am not sure who was more excited for the surprise birthday morning to come... me and Benj who put it together in the dark the night before, or Jason who discovered that the poles in the garage were not for the "fence" I told him they were for, but actually his very own trampoline!
He has been in heaven playing with new toys and jumping. He is even lucky enough to be able to jump outside despite the rain thanks to our car port that fits the trampoline perfectly.
We love you birthday boy!
"Love Cookies"
Last night for FHE Benj's lesson was about love. We read about Jesus and how he teaches us to love everyone. For our treat Benj taught us how to make fortune cookies that we could put our own love notes in and then give to someone. The cookies where yummy and fun to make, but even better was the note I got inside of mine. My cookie was from Jason....
It doesn't get much sweeter than that.
Conference Weekend
General Conference weekend was wonderful. I love the spirit that is felt in our home as we listen to our leaders. I was excited for this conference weekend especially because I wanted to make sure Jason understood what conference was, why we watch it, and who we were listening too.
We started out by having a special conference family home evening the Monday before. We had a lesson on watch towers and how Heavenly Father gives us a prophet and apostles who are like watchmen on a tower, warning and teaching us because they can see more than us. We then read about King Benjamin who constructed a tower to stand on to teach his people and how his people set up their tents with the door facing the tower so they could listen to their prophet. We constructed our own paper tower. We taped pictures of of our prophet and the apostles on the watchtower and made sure to tape it on the wall next to the T.V. so we could look at it and remember while we watched conference. Our lesson ended with a marshmellow/toothpick tower making competition. Benj won by a fraction with a slightly taller tower than mine and Jason said he couldn't quite make a tower so he constructed the water pipes that ran through all of the tents so the people of King Benjamin could drink from drinking fountains :-).
Saturday morning before conference started we set up our little "reverence" tent in front of the t.v. I also put together a basket of goodies for Jason to work on while we watched. I printed out a packet of activities from Sugardoodle, put in some file folder games, and included some snacks. I also made some prophet/apostles flash cards that Jason flipped through when there was a new speaker. He put a sticker on the person talking and we quickly read on the card who it was and some fast facts about him. I also discovered a fabulous new website called Scriptures 4 Kids. Jason had fun quietly playing that through some of conference as well.
All in all everything worked great and helped my little 3 (almost 4) year old stay quiet and reverent. He was excited to work on his conference things and I know Benj and I felt the spirit thanks to quiet children that let us watch and listen. Thank goodness both sessions coincided with nap time for the most part for the girlies!
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