January 2011 archive

Tonight for a family activity we made a special kind of snowflake! My kids love love to make snowflakes so when I saw this fun idea on a different blog I had to try it!  First you take a tortilla and fold it into fourths! Then you take your scissors and cut out your design! …

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Tori, like most 2 year olds, is a great mess maker! She loves to play games and with her toys and she just leaves mess after mess. She is slowly learning to be a great cleaner too. Her teacher at church says she is the best cleaner in her class! That makes a proud Momma!! …

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One of the most fun things about being a Mom is watching true joy and surprise when my kids experience something new! This happened the other day when I popped popcorn in an air popper! Tori was amazed!! I hate that this picture is blurry but I still love it! Ariana and her sweet friend Sarah loved watching the popcorn pop! …

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Nik finally made it home! He was gone for Christmas and then a snow storm that hit Vegas and CA shut down the roads and made him two days late! As soon as he got home the kids wanted him to open his presents! The presents had been teasing the kids since Christmas! He was …

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My sweet Zoe turned 11 today! So very hard to believe she could possible be that old!! I won't even mention that she is a preteen!! What?!?! She had a great day! She wanted crepes for her special dinner! Everyone loved her choice! She got everything she wanted and more! Zoe wanted this boots sooooo …

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When we went to pick out our tree the sweet owner gave each of the kids a tree branch to take home to be their very own Christmas tree. Ariana was a little mad that their wasn't any decoration left for her tree so she made her own! She spent hours in her room drawing, …

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Before Jordan, Michelle, Marci, and Kenny left to CA for Christmas Michelle planned a fun craft for the kids. Foam Art!!! She used a mixture of shaving cream and elmer's glue to make snowmen. The kids started by drawing their snowmen then they filled them in with the mixture! It was really so fun!!! Then …

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We got so much snow before Christmas that the last two days of school were canceled! I heard that was the first time in 20 years the school district has canceled school! I was up and shoveled out so decided to take the kids, they hadn't made any announcements yet! I got almost all the way before …

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