Yumm Yumm! A Day In the Kitchen!

So I know how it looks....isn't that how Nick broke his arm a few months back?....Sitting on the counter top is a dangerous thing! lol But this is Nick we are talking about and "Danger" is his middle name! He loves to sit on the counter and watch/help when I am working in the kitchen. :) Not so bad most days....today however he decided he NEEDED to help with making Kool-Aid....thank you Daddy for introducing this nice sugary drink to the kids. ;) lol Which is even scarier than him sitting on the counter! Do you know what that red powder can do in terms of stains!! lol Then when I turned my back he had decided that a potato would make a wonderful hat! Silly Willy! Noah had been playing outside all morning...being a good little man...when I turned to check on him, he was runnning around shirtless! Apparently a "centipede" (or what Noah would classify as a centipede) had crawled into his shirt and being shirtless fixed this situation. So I couldn't resist the muscles pose! ;) My baby needs some sun anyways! Look at that pale skin!

I decided today that I was going to have a baking day. The kids helped a little, distracted a little and ate a lot! :) I made Applesauce bread...which the kids loved! I used whole wheat flour. It was such a simple recipe as well. Then I made Mini Apple Pies....mmm mmm good!

T-Ball Opening Day! March 27th

Noah's opening  day for t-ball was this Saturday! It was a gorgeous day and the boys all had so much fun! What a way to start the new season! I am team mom, so of course I had all kinds of work to do that day...running the booth, making sure pictures went smoothly..etc. Our fund raising booth was sponsored by the US Army....ironic I know! lol We had their football toss and a few Army give away items. The kids kept coming back because they just had to beat their last toss!! It was so funny.

New Bed!

We got the kids their first bunk bed! It is a twin over a full...Noah has the top twin bed and Nick, oddly enough has the bottom full bed! It's funny how the smallest guy in the house gets the second to largest bed in the house! lol They came in three big boxes which I thought would be great fun for Noah but ironically enough he didn't want anything to do with them. Nick on the  other hand had a blast making the boxes into a jumpy and slide!

Quick Learner!

How cute is Nick?! A few days ago I had a lot going on and needed Nick to be entertained for a little while....so I brought out the safety scissors and some scraps of paper and let him cut them to pieces. He had never cut before but with a little help from Mommy and some practice, he was doing just fine.

Another Teaching Moment! :)

 So you say to yourself....what does the science of touch, cupcakes, shaving cream, and food coloring have to do with each other? Well I would say....EVERYTHING!  lol The kids and I were studying the sense of touch so as one of the many things we did that day, we used food coloring to color shaving cream in a cupcake pan and then went crazy painting with it! It mushed and smooshed between our fingers and was such fun to play with. It took a couple of days to dry but once it did, it leaves a nice marbled/tie-died look to it! :)

The Beginnings of a Beautiful Summer!

  We have decided that this year we will be making a vegetable garden. The plot was already laid for us, all it needed was a little love. So this last weekend we set about adding compost and top soil and prepping the ground. In 2 weeks we will be planting the actual garden! Hooray! I can't wait to reap God's beautiful bounty! You can also see the beautiful colors of our yard this spring! I am so blessed to have such a gorgeous home with a gorgeous yard!
Notice how dirty Noah's gloves are in one of the pictures?! That is because we were putting out cow manure on the garden and he about lost his mind that we'd be using "poop" on our garden!! But once he got the gloves on he was less offended by the idea! lol. Note also....never give a garden hose to Bryan....it ALWAYS becomes a water fight! lol I'll put up more pics later of the actual garden in progress! Yea!!!

 You gotta love homeschooling! We got the chance to go to a puzzle factory today. It was so much fun! We learned how simple puzzle making really is and we got to make our  own puzzles! In the pictures....Micheal and Pat giving us a tour. The retriever dog puzzle is actually a puzzle of their dog Sunny. The cat is Dusty...the shop cat. The black dog and the white house puzzle is a puzzle that they did for President Obama. It is a puzzle that he gives to the politicians families in foreign countries. It was so cool! If you want to order their hand made puzzles, visit them online at puzzlepeople.com. They are awesome people with great personalities and wonderful skills as crafters! They have very reasonable prices for a company that makes hand made products. I was surprised. Their philosophy is that however many minutes the puzzle takes to make, is how much it costs. Ex, 11 minutes translates to $11. You can buy their puzzles unpainted and paint them yourself as well. What great gifts they make. (Wow, maybe I should go to work for them! lol)