Pet Rocks

The kids have been begging to do crafts this week and thanks to Jessi and Josiah's birthday gift to Simeon, we have a new book full of great ideas. So we sat down together and picked one out. We decided on painting a pet rock. We went on a rock hunt around our house to find ones that would make "good pets". After finding our rocks, I gave the kids a bucket full of soapy water and some rags to clean them up a little. We put them in the sun to dry and took some time to play swords while we waited :).

As you can see, we have a cowboy-wanna-be knight on our hands. Or is it knight-wanna-be cowboy? Either way, he loves his swords, guns, and bow and arrows.

Back to the project!

The painting begins. Simeon decided to do a bug and Abbi chose a turtle. Opposite of what you would think. Me, being the good mom that I am, cut out stencils to help Abbi out a little. I insisted that she use them so it would look like a turtle. Abbi had other plans. I soon realized that I needed to put my OCD (I have no idea where Abbi gets it from:) aside and let her do it herself. After all, this is about creativity and fun, right?

Well, here you can see the first two pets. Cute, if I do say so myself.

Ingredients for a party for Mark

THE PREPARATIONS:

THE MEAL:

THE DESSERT:

THE GIFT:

THE ENTERTAINMENT:

Dust Bunnies

This at first was in response to Gina's cute post, however, I don't know if I would consider this cute or not. Actually, it is quite embarrassing. After seeing this dear little foot print, I was reminded that my spring cleaning was interrupted by a 3 week sickness. I cleaned all of the rooms on the main floor except for a few hidden away spots that never see the light of day. Namely, under my bed. I forgot about cleaning and moved on to other projects. It took a little boy playing hide and seek to remind me that my work is not over. I love the little feet and will miss them when they are all grown up. The dust will not be missed.

Happy Birthday Mark!

Happy Birthday Daddy! We love you very much!

Mother's Day

Simeon’s Birthday

So here are few pictures from all of Simeon's birthday parties. Because I am so behind, I will try not to be too wordy!

Simeon wanted a dinosaur and green themed birthday party.We included dino sandwiches, dino nuggets, green, red, yellow, and orange peppers, apples with chocolate and green sprinkles, green punch and green decorations. We tried and I think we were successful. Now he is already planning his 5th Birthday party. I must tell you now, these aren't the pics I planned on using. I had mentally decided how I wanted to post about his birthday,but plans change. Every time I went to take a picture, I hit the power button instead of the button to snap the picture. Oh well. I'm just thankful that other people took pictures too.

Simeon requested blueberry muffins for his birthday breakfast.

Lunch was a dino pb&j with apples dipped in chocolate and pink lemonade. Light lunch due to the previous week.

For his party on Monday, kids were welcomed with dino foot prints up the walkway, not tulips as some have thought :).

Gramps, Simeon, and Abbi hid dino's in the sand for all of their friends to find. We also put little dino's in balloons and let the kids "hatch" their eggs.

Sorry this is a little blurry.

Abraham enjoying the party.

Gifts from Gramma and Pappa

Simeon and Abbi enjoying a birthday picnic.

Be back soon

I know, I know! A whole month of nothing...at least according to the blog. This is just a quick post to say that I will be back up and running next week...hopefully. For the past 3 weeks, our house has been the sick ward. The first 2 weeks the 5 of us, at one time or another, came down with a nasty virus. It sent Simeon to the ER due to dehydration and eventually he was admitted to the hospital for 2 more days. Now that we are finally over that, we have "welcomed" more sickness into our house. Simeon has had another "episode" (for lack of a better word) through last night and this morning, Abraham has a virus that is causing some breathing difficulties, Abbi broke out with a rash this evening, and Mark has Strep Throat.

Hopefully we will all be better soon and I can post some pictures of Simeon's 4th Birthday parties. I did say parties - we had to split them up due to all of the crazy sicknesses (is that a word?). Anyways, I am just writing to let you know that I have not forgotten this blog and hopefully will be back on track next week!