New Side of Steve

As most of you know, my hubby is a bit shy and reserved around most people. Well, I just wanted to give you all a peek of what happens around our dinner table. If you can't tell, there are 2 grapes in his mouth!

My Latest Projects

This week the kids had spring break, which means lots of extra noise, but also some extra alone time, due to the fact that Preston has someone to play with. Well, I finally got my sewing machine out again, thanks to Leesa for giving me some sewing projects. She wanted a few "boy play clothes" so I made some manly capes for her little man. The first one is superman on one side and batman on the other and the other cape is spider man and going to be Buzz Lightyear.


I also decided to sew a few pillowcases for the kids. I haven't made Braden's yet, but can you possibly guess which one is Kari's? Shiny AND Rainbow! Not sure how comfortable it will be to actually use it, but that's beside the point. Preston's is CARS. Now he can sleep with cars, lay on cars, and be covered up by Cars.

Kari's Latest FHE Activity

I thought the last activity Kari was in charge of was creative, but this one is even better. It is hard to see what is being done, but here's the "game."

We each had a tight little rubber hair band that we put around our nose. When the band pops off, we have to catch it in a little dixie cup. Here's a few videos of our efforts.

Kari's FHE Activity

Each week for Family Home Evening everyone in the family has a different responsibility. This week was Kari's turn for game/activity. She comes up with the most unusual games for us to play. Most of the time they have something to do with her stockpile of lotion. Well this week, we tied a string to a bottle of her lotion and had to knock it out of the string with a little toy bat. If, and only if, we were amazing enough to knock it out of the string we were privileged to put on one of her many lotions. As you can imagine, Braden and Daddy did NOT want to win the prize. Preston however was thrilled to pick which lotion he could have.

Here's a picture and a video clip of this exciting game. Everyone, please feel free to use this in your own home. It's delightful!

Presenting...............

Unfortunately, my little boy has turned into his "blind" mother. Two weeks ago Steve told Braden to read the hymn numbers up on the wall at church and he couldn't do it. So now he gets to be like his mama. He's very nervous about going to school and being made fun of. So if anyone has the desire to tell him how awesome he looks that would be GREAT!

Happy 3rd Birthday Preston!

The morning of his birthday I watched a little girl from church, so of course I had to turn that into a tiny little party for Preston. Here, Preston and Emily are enjoying a Lightening McQueen cake.

This cake is homemade. yet somewhat lame. I offered to make a cool Lightning cake, but Preston insisted on using these little candy cake toppers.

He received a lot of presents, but I'm only posting one. I'll try to put the rest of them on Facebook. He really wanted a green snake, you can see how happy he is about it.

We gave him some Lightning jammies. Pretty much every present was centered around Mr. McQueen!

Kari's 6th Birthday

Here is Kari with her pile of presents. She was quite disturbed that we weren't having a party so I thought if I wrapped eveything separate it would be a bit more fun.


Here are a few things she got from us: skirt, journal with keys, princess hand bag, and new pink crocs.

And of course, a whole bunch of art supplies. I got tired of her taking all my white paper, so I thought I would just give her her own pack! I didn't know little girls could get so excited over white paper.

Yes, it's a store bought cake, but she was still happy with it. (And please pay no attention to the little boy in skivies in the background.)