Happy New Year!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Love-Hate Relationship

This blog and I have a love-hate relationship. I can't even count the number of times I have logged on to delete the entire thing, but obviously haven't. I know that I have a lot to say and many pictures to post, but I just don't have the TIME! However, when family was here over the holidays, it was brought to my attention that I really do have people that stop by to look at pictures of the kids and see what we are up to. So, for now, I won't delete the darn thing. I can't promise that I will be better at posting, but I will TRY!

Thanksgiving at Garner State Park

Been working hard.....

A few more crafts for your viewing pleasure. Some were done here at home, and others at preschool, but all were great fun! Oh, on that note, very few of these are actually my idea. I am a craft copier! I am not sure where I picked up all of the ideas, but I don't take any credit for them!

This is a clay pot painted black and turned upside down on a piece of construction paper. It made the cutest pilgrim hat for Aidan's Thanksgiving Feast at preschool.

On this turkey hat, you write what the kids say they are thankful for on each feather!

We LOVE this one. Punch a hole in the top on the cup and run a string down the inside. Hot glue the string to the top of the cup and tie it to a small piece of sponge on the end. Dampen the sponge and run it in short jerky motions down the string. Sounds just like a "gobble"!

These are the last 2 we will do next week from The Crafty Crow:

I am going to use coffee filters for the feathers and let the kids paint them using water colors. They like watching the colors bleed down to the bottom!

With this one, I will put several dots of watered down paint on paper and let the kids blow through a straw to disperse the paint. It produces the same look as the spinning.

All Boy

Aidan LOVES climbing this tree. Lately, he has been swinging off the branches like Tarzan and laughs himslef silly as he flies to the ground. With every flight, my stomach turns and my heart skips a beat but I know he is just being a BOY!

Delicious Dinner!

I made this salad for dinner last night and it was YUMMY! I served it with garlic bread sticks and called it a meal. It was a nice change from the hearty soups and stews that come with the season and SUPER easy. Click on the link and ENJOY!

Italian-Marinated Vegetable Salad

Thanksgiving Reads

These are a few of the book we have been reading this week! The kids have really enjoyed each one and love doing the crafts to go with them. As soon as we are done, I will post more of what they have been working on!

Turkeys

We are having so much fun learning about Thanksgiving and making fun crafts! I usually don't post about crafts, but lately Emma and Aidan have been really excited and proud of their work.

Yesterday we read A Plump and Perky Turkey and made our own paper plate turkeys afterwards (another idea from No Time For Flashcards). The kids (and mom I must say) loved gluing the tissue paper feathers and requested the book to be read several times throughout the day! FUN!

Crafty

The kids and I did a fun, super easy fall craft yesterday. I got the cute idea from No Time For Flashcards.

We read

I stenciled leaves on some construction paper, then had the kids decorate them with fall colors. We cut them out and then wrote on the back what we are thankful for. Now, they decorate our dinner table!

Happy Birthday Princess!

My baby girl turned 3 this past Sunday! She adds such joy and spunk to our house and I pray we have many more birthday celebrations to come. WE LOVE YOU EMMA!