Schools in

My two big boys are at school today.

They both met their teachers yesterday.
Elek was so serious with his new teacher.
Keenan was completely oblivious to his.
Elek spent the day telling keenan of all the rules and play areas for his class.
Elek had the same teacher last year.
Keenan got a welcome to school bag with a big play dough and big skittles.
Elek got a pencil.
Elek wasn't impressed.
He was happy that he could put the pencil in a pencil pocket inside another pocket in his backpack:)
I spent the day before school prepping my almost three yr old that he would be staying home.

Camden looks adorable in his hand-me-down batman backpack he insist on wearing to the bus stop.
Camden and I had back to school donuts and I opted-out of exercising
That cute little boy and I were on a hunt for school shoes for the big boys
Two big cookies and a donut later we had groceries and shoes
Camden thinks his donut was "elitious" (code for delicious!)
His cookies were "higantic" and "amazing"

Those two big boys of mine are on their way home now....
I think we may have an early bed time after much talking over the big day.....

Projects

Here you go T =)

I made wash cloths to fit the little hands at our house.

They match our monkey bathroom

And with coupons and a gift card they were *free*

A little treasure painted brown and hidden in a garage

covered with stuff and left all alone.

It's very happy all sanded down and loved by a 2 yr old

Shower cutains I loved and cut up to make a window curtain

Summer pjs for my boys

All just the right sizes

Yup, still likes green:)

Moments that make me happy =)

My friend posted some picts of her kids with the grass up-front...I loved them and wanted to try it out:) I love that I caught Camden with his little hands on his face while checking out his big brother!

Happy, happy boy!

My Mom made herself a purse out of this paisly fabric. She had all these wonderful little pockets on the inside and she put quilt batting in between the layers to protect her stuff. I started thinking this would be wonderful for my camera on "little" outings. I have a jigantic camera bag that screams "come grab my really cool camera!" But this bag is so adorable! My Mom made a patern using my camera and a paper grocery bag. Yes, She is amazing! With 30 min before I had to leave to catch my flight we had made the outside shell part of the bag. When I got home I ran to Joanns(ya, I've been there a lot) found a cute striped pink fabric to line the inside with. Made two little pockets for my charger and cord. I used some left over green from my camera strap and used it on the strap, flower and button. Another friend and I were trying to figure out how I could get it closed and we came up with this metal snap covered in green. We figured out how to make that cute little flower...and this is the finished project. It took a villege (hehe) to make it and I LoVe it!!


Down at the bottem is the frog pond the boys love to be at! We even had a crawdad come to play!

An amazing, beautiful rain storm. Somewhere there was a huge rainbow. The zig zag lines are the rain.
It was raining

the sun was setting

the road was steaming

and the light was litterally sparkeling off every individual rain drop....

Kitchen

Before

After

When email fails, blog it:) I have tried to keep this a surprise for my "handyman" dad, I've avoided calling and bursting at the seams! We've always wanted to replace the blue..... three days of drying and a very smelly night of painting it's done! And for only 20bucks-fantastic:)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Baby Boy! I think this picture sums you up perfectly! Always ready with a *grin*! Your crazy spikies that you have to make sure are "spiky" enough and bugs... Everywhere we go you can find bugs! On a recent trip to JoAnns you found a rolly-polly IN the store. It kept you busy the whole time we were there. Then on the way out of the store you found the breeding ground for the things outside and slightly to the left of the main doors. At garage sales you will check out the rocks in people 's yard for worms(until I make you stop). At Grandma's house you collect ladybugs... Always a bug on your list:)

Pin the lizard on the birthday boy!
You really, really wanted a live lizard for your birthday. At the pet store you beg to hold the lizards. Then you calmly tell me how cute they are and why we neeeeed one! I think you've narrowed it down to geckos.



We had a fun time at your outside lizard/buggy/bubble party! It was the first day in a week that it didn't rain. The yard was a bit flooded but you had such a good time anyways:) We had a "nest" of baby lizard eggs with stretchy lizards in them(I think this was my favorite thing to make for you!). We love you tons and tons :)

What have we been up to?

You ask...
Nothing really. And everything all at once.


Popcorn Popping.
I missed it, when all the trees were "popping" at the same time. But I still love it. I was twenty when I finally understood the children's song Popcorn Popping. I had never seen flowering trees before. I love them!



Easter.
I love that my boys know the Easter story. I love that they talk about it with so much reverence, sadness and love. It is one of their favorite Family Home Evening lessons. They'll request it all year. We have a plastic Easter egg filled with the symbols of Easter. We did a egg hunt with questions about Easter and "super words" on the back that led to a little treat. It was the most participated FHE in a while:) For weeks after the kids were doing egg hunts. Eggs filled with Lego pieces were every where. I went out of town for a weekend and I was looking for something in the suit case. What did I find? A yellow Easter egg with a Lego man inside:)
We did lots of Easter stuff with cousins. I think it was the first time my boys have dyed eggs. They loved it. So messy, endless options:) We had Easter egg hunts. At one place the kids got so. many. prizes. It was crazy fun!

Backyards.

So much fun:) The kids are big enough to climb trees. They don't even mind when the tree scratches them from foot to belly-they just keep going back for more:) Grass. Seriously -does it really grow this fast? I tried hacking at the front yard with a borrowed push lawn mower. 2 things about this: 1. It won't happen again. 2. I'm glad all the neighbors were at work. No witnesses is probably a good thing!

Craftiness.

I have no pictures yet, But boy have I been productive here! I made a very cute padded camera bag! Love it.

Made a camera strap, and my great friend fixed it so I could put the camera strap in it:)

I finally figured out how to cover up a arched window above the regular window in the kids room. Obvious to some, but I finally realized all I had to do is lengthen the curtains and raise the curtain rod. I found a cute shower curtain and cut it up and stitched it to the bottom of the regular curtains. Problem solved!
Made curtains for Elek's room.

Finally sewed a ripped out seem on a shirt and a seem on a pair of pj's for the boys, a stuffed puppy face from a favorite toy and repaired a loved blanket.

Elek picked out some material for some pj pants. And I actually made them:)

Pampered chef party.

It was so fun:) Thanks to everyone who ordered! I got a whole box full of fun kitchen stuff for only $40. Whoohoo!!

Love of ALL things green!

My little Camden boy...He loves Green. He calls it "My Green." He is mildly obsessed with this color. At first I thought he was just on a new little kick, but as the weeks then months have passed it has turned into much, much more! We went out of town for a few days - I packed a green shirt. Trying to get that thing off him was crazy. I finally let him wear it to bed rather than fight him. The next morning, well He wore it again then that night too. Finally it got into the wash and became a night shirt while we were gone. If the kids start grumbling over toys...just find a green toy and he is distracted instantly.

He needs a home for his green things. Keenan gave Camden this green turtle (inside) after Camden expressed his love for it. Repeatedly.

Can you tell where Camden was sitting?

While the other kids were building towers and things...Camden was pilling up green stuff. (He picked up those mickey mouse card in the paint isle at lowes.)

I walked into the livingroom and...not kidding...He was like this...All I did was tell him to say, Green:) There is actually a small yellow car mixed in those greens.

Just one of his stashes...

I though I would through this one in just for kicks! Camden wouldn't pick up any eggs at the hunt until He noticed Green eggs!