Precious

 

My precious Maddi at the park. (taken with my awesome new birthday camera...my hubby spoils me!)

one of my favorite things...

 

We all agree one of our favorite things about homeschooling is getting to "go to school" in our Pajamas!
Micah was trying to finish his art but Queenie (our kitty) never passes up a chase to be in someones lap......

Homeschooling

 

We have 47 school days left of homeschooling. We are so excited! And tommorow starts our 10 days of Easter vacation. We have enjoyed so much about homeschooling, but we are ready for summer to be here. This pic is of Maddi and Micah learning Phonics together. I started teaching Micah with Madeline's Phonics lessons about 2 weeks ago to help Micah with his spelling and reading. The Barton program has help with his reading but I figure every little bit helps. It is more work for both of us but he doesn't complain. And they both like having a "classmate."

50 cent mint box

 

I found the tutorial for the roses on u tube sorry I cant rememer from whom.....but it was so easy. These are my first attempts so of course the ones for my nieces wedding will (hopefully) look nicer. And the leaves leave a bit to be desiredtoo...
Anyways back to teaching, we only have phonics left and we will be done for the day.
later!

not up to much...

Just the same old...the couple feet of snow we had is almost finally gone, and the weather is actually warmer (40s).
The card is Stampin Up!'s stuff. It is a sympathy card for my mother in law whose mother died.
The picture of my mother and I is from a scrapbooking night at church
And the other pic is the kids "school" Valentine's party.

snow fun

 

The kids playing in the snow again. They are really loving the snow this year.

snow fun 12x12 frame

 

Stampin Up! snowflake die cut.

next years christmas cards

 
I've started them and have all year to finish them.....but I'm not doing so good, they are still sitting in the box.

Kids Christmas cards

 

I cut the stuff out and each kid got to spend one on one time with mommy putting them together...they stamped them all by themselves. I think they did pretty dang good.

Bailey's pages

 

just a couple of pages from Bailey's album.

Micah's 1st yr album page

 

This is the opening page of Micah's baby album the little pics go from 1wk to 11months the big pics are from when he was in my belly and his 1st birthday......and now he's 9....time flies.

present from mom

 
I put 4 of these together for mom to give to us girls for Christmas. She picked the pictures and paper.

my first stampin up page

 

I made this page about 7yrs ago it was my first Stampin Up experience. I was hooked there after.

christmas morning!

I love thier excitment........this year they just couldnt wait to open presents. I got up a few early to grab a shower but they all got up too....so no shower until like 11am.
I love thier bedhead pictures on Christmas morning in thier Christmas PJ's. Bailey is getting big (11.5 yrs old now) and is a constant reminder that these cute moments will not last forever. He is usually forced to participate in the kid activities (like when we made ornaments and card this year)Makes my heart ache to think of it...
Anyways I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

snow day

the kids couldnt wait to get out in the snow. The weather has been so wierd that we really hadnt had much snow that stuck around long enough to play in, but now is has stayed so cold its still here! days later. The kids made snow angels had snowball fights, helped clean the van and grandmas car off. And of course ate a few snowflakes. I was really cold out though!

Thanksgiving and Christmas cookies

It is the normal super busy holiday season. Thanksgiving flew by so fast! And we have loaded our calender with loads of holiday fun things to do. But time is flying by!!! I can't believe its only 13 days until christmas! yikes! In the mix of things my little girl lost her 2 front teeth so now she sings "all I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth" She is so cute. We had Thanksgiving at Ruth's house its close quarters but there isnt any other people I would rather be that close to on Thanksgiving Day anyways. :) The picture of the kids at the table is one of our cookie making day. We made gingerbread cookies for the first time ever. today we made chocolate chip cookies (one of my favorites). The other pic is me and mom at my sister Holly's house for our annual cookie night out. Just me, my sisters mom and any of the older nieces and nephews get together and bake ALOT of cookies. this year My sister Lori wansn't there, but my nephew Tyler decided to join us. And Britt and her boyfriend Joe too. we made PB blossoms, chocochip and I brought 2 different sugar cookie doughs and last but not least oatmeal and oatmeal rasin cookies. Then we split them up to take them home.

just a few catch up pictures

Pictures of...
We had a Halloween party at home instead of trick or treating, the kids had a blast! They want to do it again next year. Micah and Matt. Ethan had to have a pair of goggles like the other kids for our science projects. PAVCS had a field trip to the pumpkin farm.