Non staining Glass project & some fun with the Kiddos

I am soo ready for some cooler weather.  Even if we can get a day that's in the 90's I'd take it right now.  My husband would say I can't be the one  to complain because he is the one that puts in the long hot days of work in this torturous heat.  So, the kiddos and I go out in the mornings to play.  Water guns have been a big hit this week. 

Here are some of our creative art projects this week. 

Haylee starting to create her design for her coffee filter.

 We used syringes to add water to the coffee filters and make the markers bleed to make a tye-die look.

 The big girls getting our tissue paper ready to glue onto the window.

 Notice the little girls are just glued to the Big Girls.  They think they are pretty Cool!!

We used painters tape to put plastic wrap on the window and the kids all had glue sticks and glued tissue paper on top of the plastic wrap.  

I found this project in my Family Fun magazine.  

 They finally FINISHED their Non-Stained Glass window!! They did a SOOPER job :)!! & they we're all very proud of their Work.

 The baby taking a looksie, she was just intrigued by all the pretty colors.

 I had to post this picture of "SUPER" Girl!

& of course the "Diva" Girls!! They wanted little braids in their hair today..What a Pair!

Little Miss RockSTAR!!

Summer Crafts

I have really enjoyed having my older kids home.  The younger kids love having them home to play with and keep them occupied.  Their favorite thing to do is play school; they have a teacher, a principal, and an art teacher.  They get really creative and make projects for the younger kids.  Here are pics from their projects this week.

 One of my friends little girl had on the cutest headband.  I asked her where she got her head band from.  She told me that she bought a kit from Hobby Lobby and had her make one.  I thought it would be a great art project for the Big girls to help with the younger ones.  And it was a Hit, all of the girls Loved their new head bands.

 Today, we got creative and painted with q-tips.  We like to find different things around the house to utilize to paint with.  I thought they did an Awesome job with their paintings. 

I'm always looking for new art projects to do with the kids.  This is one of my favorite things to do with my kiddos.  What are some fun art projects you have done with your kids this summer?

4th of July Weekend

We had a busy weekend.  We tiled the floors, had one of my best friends daughter's birthday party, swimming, and shot of fireworks.  I'm exhausted even thinking about it all. We had a great weekend spending it with close friends. This was our kids first year we really let them shoot off the big ones, they were ecstatic about it.  I was on pins and needles the whole time.  They enjoyed every bit of it and more.

 Shae lighting a Firecracker off..

 Daddy and his baby Girl!

 Little Cheeseball

 Miss Hollywood wearing her glasses in the dark..

 This picture cracks me up, Bob got 3 sparklers ready for the kids and none of them wanted them they wanted to do the big ones!

Haylee dancing with her sparkler.

 My little fishy

 He has mastered diving

Taking a time-out to smile for the camera
This is the first year in a long time we didn't make it back home for the 4th.  We missed our family back home but enjoyed our time together.

Kitchen Floor Redo

Anyone who has been into my house in the last umm 3 months, would be Shocked to see my kitchen floors.  After 3 months of looking at black concrete floors, I now have beautiful tiled floors.  Bob had his cousin come and help.  They decided, or I should say Zach decided, he didn't want to do the floors plain jane.  He thought it would be cool to make the tiles into a diamond pattern.  Needless to say, the diamond pattern turned into a long, long, long day of tiling.  Starting at 11 yesterday they finished around 12:30 last night.  They had their jams going and just trucked along getting it done.  They did a Great job, I love my floors.  Here are the before and after pictures.  We are in the process of grouting the tile, so I will have to post the finished floor.

Jess

4th of July Fun

We had a fun day making crafts for the 4th of July.  The kids made cute glasses and decorated them with stickers.  They made red, white, and blue star necklaces.Here are some pics of the little cuties! Minus my 2 kiddos, they are having their own fun with their Aunt Stacey :)

LOVE these kids!! They make me laugh and make my job so much fun!!

Handwriting Site

I found this Awesome Handwriting site for your child.  You can type whatever you would like in the box and it will create a worksheet for your child.  Cool- Huh?!?!  Here is the website.

Check it out!! 

handwriting

Homemade Father's Day Gift Ideas

The kids have always made father's day gifts for their dad and grandpas.  This year we decided to give Bob and our grandpas these cute little gift ideas. 

You can go onto this link and print off the cute label Pop you put the fizz in my life.

We printed of the labels and made them into cute little cards. 

For the grandpas we filled up a clear plastic cup with peanuts, wrapped the cup in saran wrap, and tied it with a bow.  (Instead of saran wrap, you can buy bread bags in Walmart in the same aisle of the saran wrap.)  With this gift we made cute cards that said "We are nuts about you Grandpa!"  I got the idea from Thrifty Fun website.

 Happy Father's Day to all those AWESOME Dad's out there!!!

Here's My MR. WONDERFUL, WE love you & appreciate all you do for us!! I couldn't ask for a better father for my children, YOU ROCK Bob!! 

Notice his shirt says, "I'm Kind of a Big Deal!!" 

Proud Mother Moment

Haylee decided last August she wanted to be in dance.  We were a little skeptical about it at first being she was starting at a later age than the other dancers.  She was bound and determined to push herself and be a dancer.  & she sure proved Mom & Dad wrong.  She did an AWESOME job at her recital.  I am so proud of her.  I was a little hesitant right before her recital, she comes to me and says "Mom I think I may puke all over the stage."  Luckily, there was no puking or fainting. 

 Haylee in her ballet outfit-looking like a princess.

With her dance teacher.

 Had to share this picture, it was a long day for the little ballerina, she was tuckered out!!

 

I am so proud of my little girl, I teared up on her last performance, she looked so cute and little performing on stage in front of everyone.  That's My Girl-LOVE YA!!!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

This morning I woke up to a table with cards, homemade cards, pictures, and lovely, yellow roses from my sweet kids and AWESOME husband.  We made it to church on time, with no fighting, everyone actually ate breakfast, and had a wonderful service.  We got home from church and I had a stats test to take (YUCK) so Bob took the kids to the pool, ( I know he's crazy), they stayed short of an hour because they froze their little behinds off!  But, thankfully for that quiet time I was able to study and complete my test and score and 80% YEA!! Which is AWESOME for that class (for me).  Then, Bob made my favorite meal, Chicken Flautas and he even got flour chips and CCQ from Carlos O'Kelleys.  I know I am soo LUCKY!!! I had to post a picture of all the cute cards and my pretty flowers.

Haylee made me a card that read " My Mom is speactacular than any other mom! Inside the card had a cute poem

M- Mom

O- Mom is better than others (she underlined others)

M- Makes hugs and kisses

than on a piece of paper she wrote "have a lucky day here is a lucky penny."  I thought that was soo sweet of her and I kept "My lucky penny!" & Yes Haylee I had a lucky day, because of you!!

Shae made his little tea pot card at school with a cute little poem that read:

I will try my best

in every way

To be extra sweet

on Mother's Day.

But if you become 

upset with me, 

please relax and

have a cup of tea!

Had to share my homemade cards I received that made my day so special! Hope everyone had a Wonderful Mother's Day and got to Relax and enjoy it with the one's they love!!

May Day Baskets

May is one of my favorite months of the year.  We made May day bouquets today.  They were very simple to make.  Had to find something simple and easy for children under the age of 4.  I printed off the templates from DLTK-kids and let the kids color them the way they wanted.  I bought the flowers from Walmart for only$1.  It took a total of 15 minutes to make.  The girls loved the flowers and thought they were pretty neat to make!!

Paper plate Easter Bunny

Supplies we used:

glue, paper plate, cotton balls, pink & black construction paper, wiggly eyes. 

 They turned out really cute!!!

Happy Easter to Everyone!!!

A Child's Prayer

I love to hear my children pray.  God listens to everyone's prayer even the little ones' prayers.

  Haylee's prayer tonight 

"Dear Heavenly Father, I am so thankful for all the happy things in my life, I pray that my brother Shae gets better so he can play with me, I pray that his fever will go away.  I love you God. Amen."  She is so sweet, love her Big prayer for her brother.  You know that they love each other when the other one is down and not feeling so Hot and they pray for them to be better!! Hope everyone is staying healthy and enjoying the beautiful spring weather!!! & praying my little man will be well soon to enjoy it himself :) 

Love, Jess

This is one of my favorite pictures of Shae, I don't take pictures of my kids when they are sick, I'd rather them see pictures of themselves when they are the most happiest!  Get feeling better Shae!

Spring Tree Craft

I love spring time, 

the beautiful weather, 

green trees, flowers blooming, 

and the kids get to play outside, 

(makes me happy).  I decided to 

do a little craft with the daycare 

kids.  

It was a simple, cute craft. 

They painted their arms brown 

and placed them on paper to

make a tree.  

Then, they collected little purple

flowers off the tree outback 

and pasted them onto their trees.

  Here's their finished trees. 

Way to go girls!!

Spray Painted Old dresser

After my test today, I should have spent more time studying instead of home improvement jobs.  But, when my husband decides he wants to do one of  my Honey-To-Do jobs, that I have been wanting to do for a while, I jump right up to help.  I have been wanting to spray paint this old dresser of Shaes'.  The color doesn't go with the theme of his room.  It was a nice hand me down from my brother.  So, that was our project we worked on today.  Bob gets most of the credit, I went to the store and purchased the items to spray paint and he did the labor :) I have a great guy!! So this sideways picture below is Shae dresser before.  It has definitely seen better days. 

 Sorry the picture is sideways, the best I could do. 

 This is what we found behind the dresser after we moved it, a gummy bear.  Don't know if Shae was saving that for later, Hope not!!

 Here is the finished dresser and night stand. Bob used a aluminum color spray paint, and black for the top.  I bought new knobs at Lowe's. 

Haylee & I went to Hobby Lobby to get some decorations to match his skate board theme.  I want to go back and get the rest of the letters to his name & hang them on the wall.

  The dresser looks great now, I love how it turned out. 

& my poor Shae has came down with a hi fever today. I hate when my kids are sick.  

Painting Metal Cabinets

You can call me crazy, but I want to paint our metal cabinets.  

I found this website retrorenovation that shows exactly 

how to do it.  With the help of my AMAZING husband I think 

that we could get them done.  So check out these finished painted metal cabinets. I love the metalic orange color.  

But, I am debating between that color and a chocolate.  Our kitchen is painted a green color. What color do you think would look best in our kitchen?!?

 The picture above is a metallic orange.  Bob hates this color, he doesn't think it would match the kitchen.

 This color above would probably be my pick, maybe a smudge darker. 

The top picture looks a little to dark, but I think a little bit lighter than this would give the kitchen a whole new look.
 This is the color of our kitchen.  The cabinets need some TLC to say the least. 

Which one do you like the best?

Card made by Haylee to Me

My little girl is always making cards 

and notes to everyone in the house

Well, everyone but her brother :( Poor Shae.  

She made Bob & I both cards today.

She brought mine into my room while I was

watching my statistics lectures,(which was dreadful).

Here is what the card said that brightened my day:

Me & my mom go shoping that is the Best part.

I lik go shoping at the mall.

I love going with my mom.

I love my mom she is the Best

Mom in the world.

My mom is realy good at school.

the end. 

Love Haylee

Well Haylee, I think I am the one that

has the Best girl in the world!!! She

is just the sweetest little girl I know. 

My Kids know How to Party

Today was just beautiful outside.  We had a great day spending time with the kids outside.  Bob grilled some chicken and the kids decided to dance on the back porch to the radio.  My kids are so much fun, I can't imagine not having them in our lives.  Love capturing moments like these to laugh about later!!