Grocery Gaming

My best friend is the best at finding great deals!  She has taught me a bunch about a game that she likes to play.  Basically you save on groceries by buying items on sale with coupons.  Today I had a great thrill getting all of this……..

for $18.36.   There are actually 2 canteloupes and 6 pounds of butter that I forgot to put in the photo.  I absolutely love the Grocery Game!

Spring is here

I love our neighborhood in the Spring!  When the homes were built, each yard was beautified with Flowering Pear Trees.  I had to take a picture of the sight I see when I drive in.  This is also my Photo of the day! 

Here is another sign of Spring.  Taylor picked a flower and was too lazy to put it in a vase.  She told me she was being creative.  That is her excuse for everything now!!  My room is messy because I am artistic!  I just roll my eyes at her! I do love her artsy crafty side though!  

It will not turn upright for me….just turn your head sideways! 

St Patty’s Day fun

I got a wild hair and decided to make green food for St. Patrick’s Day. I made Lemon lime koolaid, green muffins, and pistachio pudding. In the morning when Grant woke up, I told him that a leprechaun stopped by and brought breakfast! He had the best time drinking leprechaun juice and eating green muffins!
Later that night we made shamrocks from canned bread sticks. You make 3 hearts and then put them together. We sprinkled them with green sugar and baked them.

Scripture Candy

My lesson today was about the Book of Mormon and how it was published.  I found these cute scriptures made from candy.  Here is the link  http://www.sugardoodle.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2966&Itemid=5

Taylor had the best time helping me!  Here is how ours turned out:

Here is Tay reading them:

They are super easy to make and our Primary loved them!

Photo A Day

On December 28th I started Project 365 which basically means I take a photo a day to document our real life for a whole year. I just had to share this photo from Sunday, February 22. This shelf is in the boys room and they are responsible for keeping their room clean. This is what I found….

When I saw the popcorn bag I assumed that they were shelving it so they could eat it later…..the bag was empty so I assumed wrong. At least the bag was shelved neatly!

some more valentines!

It took us about a week but we finished the crocodile valentines!  Taylor made 33 for her classmates, teacher, principal and Mrs. Mary the secretary. When the visiting teachers came over, Taylor’s friend helped her.  We had a lot of people pitching in!  Lots of love to go round!  Here  is the final project of her with all of her crocodiles.  Today they had partied and ate lots of candy!

94 Valentines

We went all out this year with our Valentines!  Hunter had the best time making these shovels:  http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=11375

They turned out so cute and Mack made some for his teachers!

Happy Heart Day!

Tay’s Valentines

Tay is our artsy fartsy girl, she is a lot like me!   She saw these cute crocodile valentines and wanted to make them for her class.  They are very cute and you stuff them with candy.  They are very time consuming but really cute!  Hope you have a great valentine’s day!!

The template can be found on Skip to my Lou,

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2008/02/06/id-snap-at-the-chance-to-be-your-valentine/

Are you ready for some football?

We absolutly love football.  The Super Bowl was greatly anticipated by each of us.  I love it because I get to make tons of food and we all get to be together and eat!  Benson loves Big Ben and wore his jersey.  Grammy and Uncle Jon came over.  Uncle Jon was cracking jokes and was picking on Benson’s face paint. Here is the conversation they had:

Jon: ”You know what will wash that paint off after the game?”

Benson: “What?”

Jon: “Your tears when the Steelers lose!’

Needless to say it was an intense game and we were so excited that the Steelers won.  Taylor painted my face and McKay’s face.  I painted the other kids face.  We had a blast!

The Dud Gifts

Roger and I both got suckered into buying the Nerf Longshots for the kids for Christmas, we bought each of them one because we hate when they fight over toys.  Once they opened them, their names were written onto every piece of their Nerf Longshot, even the 15 darts that it came with.  They had fun playing with them on Christmas day but not so much anymore. They are a bit bulky and poor G money can’t even lift his when it is all put together. (The box was bigger than him!)  I am also tired of picking up Nerf darts all day!  One day we plan to let them build forts outside and have a Nerf battle.  Here’s the Nerf guns from Christmas, our duds for the year!

Tay took this picture with her new camera, she sits beside Mac in the van!