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!! 

The Sun Will Come out Tomorrow

I am trying to make the best of these dreary, cloudy days.  There wasn't any sunlight to raise my spirits today.  I keep telling my husband, Bob, that this weather is going to put me into deep depression.  Just wanting some BEAUTIFUL, spring weather here in Kansas Lord.  I love being able to go for walks at night with my husband and kids.  Love spending time sitting on my back porch watching my kids play.   
Here some pictures to remind me that the sun will come out again very, very, very soon.  Because Lord knows all of us mothers need the sunny weather to stay happy!!!

 Nice Pose Shae!!

 Having a good time

 Little Cheezers 

 My Beautfiul little Girl

This is my younger brother Tyson on the Chappy.  (think i spelled that right.)  Bob bought this scooter last summer, on any nice night he is taking it out for a little cruise.  I love this picture of my Brother, he looks soo cool on the Big Ride doesn't he?!?! 

Hoping these cold spring days don't last long!!!!

Spring Bird's Nest Recipe

Haylee & I found a fun and easy recipe to make bird's nest.  This is a simple recipe that you can do with your kiddos.  All you need is half a bag of chow mein noodles, 1 package of butterscotch morsels, and Easter egg candies (we chose M&M's). 

Here are the kids helping Daddy putting the eggs on the nests.  I love that Bob likes to help out when we make things.  He is such a good daddy!!

Treasure Find

I have been looking for a used buffet for a long time now.  My mom came down to stay with me and the kids for a couple days through their spring break.  We decided to go check out a second hand furniture store.  As soon as saw this beauty I knew I had to have it.  It took a little convincing with Bob, but I got what I've been waiting for. The lady had it marked at $250 I talked her down to $215, I know Bob thinks I'm crazy when I bargain  a price with people.  But hey,  I got a pretty good bargain on this one!!  They run from $900 to $2000 in a furniture store.  And this buffet is solid walnut, Bob let me know how solid it was when he moved it in.  I love it!! It has so much storage in it.  I can hide a whole bunch of toys and books and whatever else in it.  I am so excited about it I just had to share my new find!!   So here is a picture of my new (used) buffet. 

The bad news about today, is my moms car won't start.  So, she is stuck with me for another day until Bob figures out whats wrong with it.  I feel horrible about her car but, on the bright side I'm glad I get to have her here with us another day!!

St. Patricks Day With the Daycare kids

The kids made their own hats for St. Patricks Day.  They painted the bowls green and we glued them on top of a paper plate and cut out the middle of the plate to make our hats.   They turned out pretty cute. 

The girls finger painting their shamrocks. 

 Little Cheezer!!

 Hat didn't make it very long, but she sure looked cute in her all green outfit!!

 The girls with their hats, we were missing the boys on this day.

Practicing Writing our Names

All of the kids here at daycare are learning to write their name.  I thought it would be fun to get washable markers for windows and let them practice writing their names.  They LOVED it!!!  They had so much fun writing on the windows.  One of the little girls says to me "I can write on your window and I won't get in trouble."  It was the funniest thing ever.  Here is a picture of one of the girls practicing to write her name.  The picture didn't turn out very clear.  We will be practicing writing on my windows a lot more!!

Sweeping the Bad Attitudes out of our House

Yesterday I spent the entire day with my children.  I didn't open a single text book to study.  I wanted the whole day to be focused on my two kids.  Some things I learned yesterday.  We went to the mall to meet some friends to have lunch.  I bumped into another mom I know, who I look up to.  She is an incredible mother, and I love listening to her talk about her kids.  She is a mother to four amazing children.  I was talking to her oldest son, and he had such a kind sweet spirit about him.  He was so laid back and a great big brother to his 3 younger siblings.  As we were sitting next to them, I realized how thankful her kids were for spending time together at the mall.  They sat there and appreciated this privilege of going to the mall with their mom.   Ok, so we are sitting next to them and my kids are complaining left and right how starving they are.  Yes, they probably were, but they could've showed some patience.  Both of my children were saying how bored they were being at the mall.  I realized that I have taken a wrong path somewhere to show how ungrateful I am, that my kids were acting like this.  So last night after spending the day with my kids I sat down and prayed, and thought over everything.  First of all I need to start showing my kids more respect and appreciate who they are.  If you want your kids to give you respect you have to model that behavior.  Second, I should not be comparing my kids to other kids.  Even though my friend's children are soo well behaved, my kids are pretty great too.  I sat up last night and typed out some new rules that will be changed in our home.

HOUSE RULES

Show Respect to Everyone in our home (daycare kids too!)

Help others who are in Need

Show Compassion & love to others

Obey your Mom & Dad

Do not worry about your problems, pray & lift them Up to God

Do not compare yourself to others

Try your hardest at everything you do, and you will accomplish Great things

This is going to be my new goal.  I want everyone in my house to model all these behaviors.  

Friday Night

So Bob has 1 rule in the house.  NO Dog in our bed.  He is pretty adamant about it too.  Its Friday night and Haylee stayed the night at a friend's house.  I finished up writing my paper so Bob & I are watching tv on the couch and where is my son?!?  I go to see what he is doing and find him cuddled up in our bed with Rex.  I am just laughing my butt off, cause I know how mad his dad would be to find Rex in our bed.  So here is a once in a life time picture of Rex in our bed.

Look at those Faces, how can you say "No" to that!!