Craft Bug

The craft bug has bitten me, and I kind of like it. I go through phases I guess. It seems when life slows down outside of the house, I decide to take on some crafts to keep me busy! :)

Kylee's having some girls over from her class tomorrow to celebrate the end of the year (more on that later), so I decided to put these little books I bought a few years ago to good use. They were just plain white, 8x8 books from Michaels I think. 

I printed one for each girl. I found this idea on pinterest, using the black and white, and I thought maybe they could color it in themselves!

Cover Page

4 pages

4 more pages

I won the bad sister of the year award last week for not coming through with a teacher card for my niece…. So I redeemed myself by making these little thank you cards for my other niece and nephew teachers, and Kylee's teacher. Hope I'm not in the hole anymore!! :)

I've started some travel books for Kylee, and the cousins for this summer, but I don't like the way they are going…. So, I'll post those when they are done! 

Memorial Day 2015

We are thankful for the men and women who have died fighting for our country, so we may have freedom. We pray for healing on our land that it so desperately needs. 

And these kiddos don't all the way understand what Memorial Day means. I love any chance we get to talk about America with the kids, and the reasons why we celebrate certain days of the year. They will grow up knowing they had Great Grandfathers who fought for our country, and by God's hand of protection, made it home safe. They also are learning that some kids don't get to have their dad's with them all the time because they have to go fight for our safety.  They always bring up our sweet friend, Madeline, and her dad. 

It's on a small level they understand, but so important that it isn't forgotten. 

These two wanted to be twins! I say they look pretty close! Lol! 

Jason Turns 31

Jason turned 31 over Memorial Day! I made him a homemade german chocolate cake! 

Taking our gifts and homemade cards to Daddy!!

A new razor (he requested), flip flops, a brush for the grill, and some yummy Popcorn from Mom and Popcorn in McKinney, TX!

Dr Report!

I picked Kylee up from school yesterday afternoon for her dr appt! Right when we got there, they called us straight back, and they CUT IT OFF!! They washed her arm up good. 

You know how it feels after the cast is off. Kind of funny. She was kind of scared to use it. Then we did more x-rays, and the dr said it was healing very well. So we got to go the splint for 2 weeks! Take it off at bath time, swimming, and bed time!! Yay! 

After that I needed a pedicure, so she ended up getting her toes painted too!! I always laugh when I take Kylee there, just because of the language barrier at the toe places. We both told the lady no flower because I didn't want to pay for it! Then she started doing the white paint for the flower on her big toes, and we both just looked at each other and laughed! Then she says, "See, pretty!" Ha!! But, the good thing is, they didn't charge me for them. I think they were bored since we were the only ones in there!! 

Then we went to the library to get her an official card, so she can read books this summer!! 

And while there we read her book she had for homework! 

Then we ate supper at Schlotzky's and then headed to watch Addi's last volleyball game of the season!! They do so good!! Last year, not many could get it over the net on serving, but this year, they all get it over really good, and can actually volley it back and forth a few times!

Smartie Pants!!

Well, I don't know if we are really smartie pants, yet, but the young ones have been interested in doing some name work! Which came in handy, after Jason told me that he thought Maggie was behind. :( 

But, after talking to some other 3 year old moms, I don't think she's behind at all!! Solved that problem! ha! 

She loves doing this Doc McStuffins puzzle all by herself!! 

She is doing pretty good at tracing her M and H for Maggie Holik!! Thank goodness it's just mostly straight lines!! *wink*

And Jaxon has come a long way in writing his name. He's been able to write the letters for a long while now, but they would just be UPSIDE DOWN and BACKWARDS!! How in the world does someone even do that?!! Or he would start anywhere on the page and just get the letters on there somewhere! And he would write the "N" as a "M"!! Obviously, I didn't correct it for a long time… 

But here he is doing so good!! The "X" looks sort of like a "t"!! He's pretty proud of himself too!! 

The Dollar Tree has these work books for $1!! So I bought some for the kids to work through this summer. Kylee will do the addition and subtraction books, and I also have printed out her summer reading challenge to keep on top of her reading!

Super Game Fun Time!

Sometimes it's fun to make your own game boards called, "Super Game Fun Time!"

Kylee and Jason printed and colored their own game board the other night!! They even added in things like, "go back 2 spaces, go back to start, and go to jail." With all those spaces, it was a hard game to win! 

Such sweet memories made!!

Tractor Day

Today was Tractor Day!! The end of school has all sorts of fun things jam packed into it!!! These are some of the fun mom things I have looked forward to doing with the kids!!

I have a crazy/bad mom confession to make. I made Kylee a tractor shirt for Tractor Day! Oh man!! 

She was super silly this morning. 

We sat at cousin Ethan's house, and watched all them come by!! There was big ones, and little ones, old ones, and new ones! And only ONE red one!! :) I drove a red tractor my senior year, and still secretly like them! Don't tell Jason! *wink*

This guy loved it!! He told me he's going to drive the sprayer when he is a senior!