Climber

Most parents worry about their toddlers climbing out of their cribs, N is trying to climb into his. (I think it's because all his pacis are in there where he can't reach them).

Marshmallows

I saw this craft floating around Pintrest (LOVE that site, BTW!) a few times and thought it would be fun to do with the kids this summer. I had grabbed a bag of red (pink), white, and blue star marshmallows a few weeks ago and with today being rainy I figured it was a good day for this.
It really was a perfect craft. The kids loved it, it wasn't too messy, and they did it for over an hour. Win, win, win! And as an added bonus, my kitchen now smells pretty yummy! :)
Here are a few pictures...

M working on her bridge

R holding up his sun

Having funR using his marshmallow dumbbells.

Being cute :)

(sorry the quality is so bad, I'm not sure how to get them to upload better)

Start of the Week Stuff

I'm a little late with this post today. Partly because this feels like the first real week of summer around here, and we're being a little lazy, but mostly because I've spent most of the morning putting away all the goodies I came home with last night.
My mom and I went down to the Bay Area for the weekend to shop, and we were very successful! I had a list (jeans, capries, a casual dress and/or skirt, tops (all kinds) and maybe a light weight jacket... pretty much everything, lol), and I'm happy to say I got everything on that list! I came home with 2 pairs of jeans, a pair of capries, 2 dresses, 2 skirts, 12 tops, a sweater, and a jacket! My mom also bought me a new wallet and purse. The trip was for us, but we did come home with a few things for the kids too. I had a small list of things I'd been looking for for N (fleece PJs, Gap jeans (all the others he has don't stay up), a white shirt, and size 6 shoes), and I found all of that stuff too (and everything except the PJs was on sale!) and my mom got the kids each an outfit at the Gymbo outlet too (super great sale going on there right now!). So anyway, I've been pulling tags off of things, doing new cloths laundry (the best kind!), and switching over my old purse and diaper bag to my new purse that will work for both (Matthew dubbed it a "mom purse", but I don't care, it's cute!).
Now for this week's menu and very empty to-do list. :)

Menu:
Monday- tortellini I picked up at Trader's
Tuesday- soup and corn bread, also from Trader's :)
Wednesday- crock pot chicken nachos
Thursday- breakfast
Friday- crock pot chicken quesadillas
Saturday-
Sunday- Taco Pie

To-Do's:
Monday- grocery shopping, small group
Tuesday- NOTHING!
Wednesday- NOTHING!
Thursday- NOTHING!
Friday- maybe go up to Mom's to swim...
Saturday- ...or maybe today
Sunday- church

I hope my kids don't get too bored doing nothing all week, I sure am looking forward to it! :) I do have some crafts and stuff I plan to do with them during the summer, and really , doing "nothing" as a stay at home mom of 3 kids isn't actually nothing, but we don't have anywhere we have to be, and I'm happy with that. :)

Scrapbook Friday

Well, my first week as a Britt Girl, and look when I get to play with!! Backyard Bliss and Date Flags, both new today! I think this kit has to be one of my all time favorites, it's awesome!! The date flags are really fun too (I used them for the dates and in the title of one page).
Here's what I did with them...

full credits here

full credits here

Happy Friday! :)

School's Out For The Summer!

It felt like the kids got out super later this year (even though it was only a week later than normal), but they're now officially on summer vacation, yey!!
Here are our last day pictures...

M, first and last day of 2nd grade (I cannot believe she will be in 3rd grade next year!!)

R, first and last day of Kindergarten

Both of them together :)

Being silly

All 3 kiddos

Funny fact: N is wearing the same size pajamas in both of those pictures. They are almost impossible to get on him now, but I only grabbed 2 pairs in the next size up before the stores stopped carrying them for the season, and he sleeps best in those kind of PJs, so we're making them work as long as we can. :)

N thought he was pretty funny sitting on the doorstep like that. lol

School got out Friday afternoon and we headed over to Redding to hang out with family and do some boating. The boat didn't get the message though, and broke down as soon as we got as far away from our beach spot as we could (and right in front of another beach full of people). So, we crossed "lake" off our list, but decided to hold off on "boating" until we actually got to do more than get towed in. Hopefully it won't be too hard to fix and we'll be able to use it next time we go!
We're home now and still have kind of a busy week with VBS, but it's still much more relaxing than the last couple months! After this weekend we'll be in official summer mode!

Start of the week Stuff

Menu:
Monday- pasta
Tuesday- chicken casserole
Wednesday- pizza and root-beer floats
Thursday- sausage with peppers and pasta (this is my new favorite!)
Friday- leftovers
Saturday- chili cornbread casserole
Sunday- grilled cheese with pesto


To-Do's:
Monday- hair appointment in the AM, grocery shopping, small group
Tuesday- VBS, make Father's Day stuff for Matthew (yes, I know it was last weekend, but I found these that I wanted to make for him, and they wouldn't transport to the lake with us very well, and we had no time last week)
Wednesday- VBS
Thursday- VBS
Friday- shopping w/ Mom!
Saturday- more shopping
Sunday- more shopping (and driving home)

Guess What?!?

I'm a Britt-Girl again!! And I'm so stinking excited! Brittney emailed me on Friday to ask if I wanted to come back to her creative team, and I had to keep from jumping up and down as I read the email. I loved being a Britt-Girl, and I really missed it when I went on "maternity leave". Now that N is getting older and I have a new (to me) computer I've been trying to scrap more again, so this is just perfect timing.
With this will come the return of Scrapbook Fridays to my blog. I've been posting my LOs on Facebook (and I will continue to do that), but I'll be posting them here as well.

Anyway, just wanted to share my happy news. :)

Start of the Week Stuff

One more week of school!! I was really hoping that things would settle down a little once school got out, but it looks like the first week of summer is going to be almost as busy. The kids are going to VBS and M is on the worship team and needs to be there early, which means we'll be leaving the house just as early as we do for school. It's only 3 days though, so not a huge deal.

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself... this week's stuff...

Menu:
Monday- stuffed pizza rolls
Tuesday- salsa chicken quesadillas
Wednesday- blueberry pancakes
Thursday- salsa chicken nachos

To-Do's:
Monday- doctors appointment, grocery shopping, small group
Tuesday- doctors appointment
Wednesday- NOTHING!!!
Thursday- dentist for R
Friday- last day of school, beach day for R, party for M

Start of the Week Stuff

Menu:
Monday- something easy for the kids
Tuesday- blueberry pancakes
Wednesday- sausage with peppers and pasta
Thursday- pizza
Friday-
Saturday-
Sunday-

I still need a few more things in there, but I'll figure that out later. I'm hoping if it's nice on the weekend Matthew will BBQ. :)


To-Do's:
Monday- R's class in the AM, Softball for M, small group (bring dessert)
Tuesday- dentist apt for all 3 kids
Wednesday- worship practice for M
Thursday- field trip for M, R's t-ball pizza party
Friday- PJ day @ school for R, dance for M (last one of the semester)
Saturday- softball for M
Sunday- church, work in nursery, Costco...

Things are finally starting to wined down a little bit! This week's schedule feels a lot more manageable than last week! I also want to get the teacher's end of the year gifts all done this week so I won't have to be running around last minute, but still, not quite as much going on!

Canvas

Just for you Paige, pictures of my canvas! :)

This picture is from the photo session we had done in April by Megan Collenberg Photography. I bought the digital file and had a 24x32 canvas printed through Costco. I love it, it looks fantastic!
The colors are a little off in my photos of it, it was kind of dark out when I took these.

Here it is over our couch so you can get more of an idea of the size. :)

We bought some shelves when we were down at Ikea that I'm going to have Matthew put up on either side of it soon. I thought about trying to do that myself, there are lots of awesome women out there in blogland who do all sorts of "handyman" stuff (and more!) around their houses, but I think Matthew might freak. It always seems like such a production when I have him hang shelves... measuring, finding the studs (insert joke about the stud-finder going crazy every time he tries to use it), remeasuring, leveling, ect... too much work for me. I'll stick to hanging pictures and leave the big stuff for him.