Thursday, March 3, 2011

Time To Play Catch Up, again!

So I might get last Christmas on here one day, but not today. We are about to head out on another adventure to California to visit Papa & Grammy and unfortunately it is without Steve again. I am so lucky that Steve works so hard so we can go play, it also helps being able to fly for FREE!!! Love that perk of my job, anyways, we had a Great trip in January. I think it would be appropriate to call our last trip “The Beach Vacation,” since we spent our 3 full days at the beach! We love the Beach and it doesn't matter where it is, as long as there is sand, and water we love it!!!

We had a great time collecting Shells for our Travel Craft. The boys did a great job placing their shells on the hearts so that I could glue them down. My favorite part about this craft is that we can put them up every year at Valentines because I mounted them for display.

Tyson loves to play in the waves even when the water temperature is only 57 degrees!! He also is great at meeting new friends. Anytime a new kid would arrive near us he would tell me another friend is here. On the first day a huge group of Chinese kids showed up not speaking any English but he still had a Great time playing with them.

Parker, loves the sand! He likes to play in the water a bit but loves the sand. I would have to say his favorite part is taking a shower at the beach. By the time I am putting down all of the beach stuff Parker will have stripped naked and is turning on all the shower spouts. I have a great picture of his naked butt, but I would probably get turned in if I posted it.

Chloe had a great first visit to the beach even when she was hooked on to the front of me while chasing our umbrella about the length of a football field. I did catch the umbrella and would have probably won on AFV if it was caught on video. She loved laying on the Beach and she was really good at falling asleep. Chloe even handled having sand on her face courtesy of sweet big brother Parker.

Our first Beach day was spent at Huntington. Day 2 was at Santa Monica, where we also went to the aquarium under the pier. I was amazed to see all the different Sea Stars that are in the area, absolutely beautiful! Then that night we went to the Street Fair in Huntington, which has become a tradition for us. The boys love trying all the fresh fruit samples and we always stop at the craft booth. Our 3rd day we went back to Huntington and at the end sat down at Jacks on the beach and had ice cream!

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Our Valentine Crafts

So I love to make crafts and I really try to choose something that my boys can help with. For Valentines this year I had them help with the decorations and we had a Great time. For starters the boys used all the sea shells that we collected and I glued them on hearts and then mounted them in a frame so that we have them to use every year!

Next I made lots of yarn pom-poms that I used for a garland and to hang from the light fixture. Next I Mod Podged letters with cute scrapbook paper. The boys got to help again with our Yarn Hearts that I saw in Disney’s Family Fun Magazine (Love this magazine). I used the yarn hearts in the garland and the light fixture. All in all I think our homemade Valentine decorations turned out really cute, and the boys were so proud of all the decorations that they were able to help with!

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We also enjoyed a Yummy Spaghetti dinner since we were using yarn for our craft project!

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Monday, February 28, 2011

Random February Pictures

So Intrigued
Legos, Legos, Legos


 Home sick from daycare while mom

 
Happy Girl






Perfect Ratios


Yummy!


 Once there was a snowman

Saturday, February 19, 2011

February Fun

We had a Great time playing in Park City
 
Swimming & Crafting
    
Keeping warm with a towel
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 Just hanging out
 


 
Time to play in the snow
 



 











 


 I Love my Life!