march fun

swim team

Lowe's build & grow...building a birdhouse

ice skating with our homeschool group

weekend randomness

this weekend, i sat by the fire a lot.  i worked on my bible study and drank lots of tea because it was cold and snowy outside.

see what i mean...anyone want to go for a jump???

the kids didn't mind playing out in it!

i prefer sitting inside, admiring my lavender plant.

i did venture off to the grocery store to buy my 1st cauliflower.  i've been married for over 13 years and i have never bought one, pretty sad!

i've never cooked it before because i remember when i was a teenager and my parents made it, and it stunk the whole house up!  i'm going to make cauliflower rice...we'll see how it goes!

we live in crazy town...crazy bronco country that is!  all i see is orange and blue wherever i go.  even the grocery store had a bronco made out of veggies!  the fans are crazy here!

we took the kids to see walking with dinosaurs. it was really cute and was educational too!

how was your weekend? what did you do?

weekend randomness

 this is a view from on top of the continental divide, where we spent our time friday skiing.

i made apple ring pancakes for breakfast.

i received my 1st graze package in the mail.

i'm always on the lookout for healthy snacks. i thought i'd give this a try, since i received a free coupon for my 1st box.

do you want to try it too?
1. visit graze
2. your 1st & 5th box is free with this code...WGW3453GB.
3. say thanks to Melissa

the kids were helping my man put up a coat rack for the laundry room.

fun in the snow

last friday, we went skiing again and it was a ton of fun!  we were on the mountain for about 6 hours and the kids did great!  they are getting so good and it's so fun to watch them!

it was a beautiful day at the top of the mountain!  the mountains had gotten a lot of snow the several days before we came up, so the conditions were perfect!

we were all starving by dinner time and pigged out on Mexican food!

December 16

Day 4 of our 12 days of Christmas~ winter wonderland!

we took the kids skiing!  this was their first time to ski and we signed them up for ski lessons.  they both did great and we all can't wait to go back!

a snowy day

we've had several snow storms. on sunday, it snowed all day.  my man is an expert at shoveling snow. the kids and i stayed inside and worked on some crafts and played games by the fire.  even church was canceled.
  they worked on an Easter nativity set that i found here.
i worked on these paper scrolls.
 
the next day, the sun came out and everything looked so pretty!

Valentine's Day

our day began with heart-shaped pancakes before it was off to school for my little lady.  we gave each other the Valentine's we made for one another.



i made big rice crispy treats to look like hershey kisses...i saw the idea somewhere on pinterest.




we made a fancy dinner that included steak, salad, twice baked potatoes, asparagus and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert.

 

shaving cream polar bears

what kid doesn't like playing with shaving cream???  my kids love it!

the other day we mixed white glue and shaving cream together and made polar bears. we used a paper plate, a few white circles for the ears and two black dots for the eyes.

it was a beautiful day for an outside craft. they can't wait for summer to come, so that they can have their annual shaving cream fight.

sharing ideas

there are two of the reasons i love to blog.

one, it's a way to preserve what is happening in our lives and to be able share with others that don't live close to us.

secondly, it's a way for me to share things i've tried, ideas that have worked and things that don't work.  not to receive praise or to brag or say look at me.  that's not me.   i don't like the spotlight to be on me.  i share because that's what we should do.  as women and moms, it's our job to help each other out.   i'm always in search of new things.   mostly, things i can do with my kids and things we can do as a family.  most of the the things i do, are not my original idea.  i borrow ideas all the time.

do you ever find that your kids get board or go crazy on a holiday?  maybe that's just me, but the other day my little lady was off from school and i knew that i needed to come up with something.  they were wanting to do a project and i wasn't too prepared.  but thank heaven, for pinterest.  i quickly looked up something i had pinned and set it into motion.

i borrow this idea from here.   it shows you step-by-step of how to make a packing peanut igloo.  go check it out...it's so easy!

first off, you need no glue.  yes, that's right..zip, zero, nada!  just dip the packing peanuts in a bit of water and they become sticky.

my kiddos loved it!  i'm kind of crazy and save things like...packing peanuts and was thrilled that it offered them a lot fun.  my little guy loved it and was thrilled to build his igloo.  i think there will be more packing peanut creations in our near future!

along with the igloo, we made a polar bear cutout for them to play with.  also, we spent time during snack, reading about the arctic and the life of a polar bear.

i'm so glad that another mom shared this cool idea.   i would have never of guessed that packing peanuts would stick together, without glue, just by getting them damp.