I'm moving :-)

I really enjoy blogging but trying to keep up with facebook (both personal and business) and then two separate blogs, it is just too much.  

I will not delete this blog but from now on I will be doing both my personal and business related blogging over on my Mel's Crocheted Creations BLOG.  

Hoping to use my blog more and facebook less.  We'll see how it goes :-)

Gloria's second "FIRST" tooth lost!

Yes, that is correct.  This is her second FIRST lost tooth.  Her first actual lost tooth, she SWALLOWED while eating cereal.  It was hilarious and actually Logan's very first lost tooth, he also ate!  

So THIS TOOTH is her first time actually loosing a tooth, seeing it etc.  She was very fascinated.  I don't think she wants to give it to the tooth fairy.  

Her teeny tiny little tooth. 

Grabbed her tooth fairy pillow and so excited to use it

Showing the boys her newly formed hole.  Two teeth side by side...gone

Needed to look at it ONE MORE TIME.  For like the 50th time!  lol

Sticking her tongue through the new hole in her mouth.  Silly :-)

Sweet Dreams Princess!

My little baseball player

Logan started playing baseball for the first time this fall.  I was not sure if he would like it, if he would do good but he really wanted to try and I really wanted him to try.  He has taken off and has a great passion for it.  I love that ALL he thinks about in any spare moment he has, is playing catch or practicing hitting.  He looks forward to practice and all his games.  He has improved a TON since the season first started and you can see how proud he is of himself.  Larry and I are also SOOOO proud. 

One of Logan's strength's is his "eye".  He has a great eye and can spot a strike or a ball easily.  Hitting the "good pitches" has been a struggle but tonight at practice he was doing great and hitting lots of the pitches.  I think he finally found his "hitting" groove.   I can't wait till Sunday's game :-)

Here are a few pictures of him so far this season. 

FIRST game, FIRST RUN...HOME!

Logan and his best friend Caleb.  Love these two!

He is just AWESOME!  lol

My Beautiful Princess :-)

I have not had much time to blog lately but now that the kids are back in school, I am going to try to get caught up.  You can always follow me and see up to date stuff on my facebook page :-)

This is the 3rd year in a row that Gloria and I have had a mother daughter session with Nicole.  It is so fun and something so special to do with my baby girl.  What a great way to document her birthday each year. 

Here is her 4 year old session: Gloria, age 4

Here is her 5 year old session: Gloria, age 5

GLORIA, AGE 6

Here are a few of my favorites. You can see the full session HERE

Sidewalk Chalk/Paint

A friend of mine told about a fun, easy recipe to make your own sidewalk chalk and I just had to try it.  Gloria and Landon had a blast with this.  The recipe is easy but just to warn you, it ends up being more like paint....so fun to use though!

All you need to make this is some water, corn starch, food coloring and a muffin tin.  No cooking involved, SO EASY!

Mix together 1 cup of water and  1 cup of cornstarch

Poor a little bit into each of the holes in the muffin tin.  I was able to fill 9 of them about 1/2 way.

After you have them filled up, add your food coloring to each hole to desired color.  

Take it outside with some paint brushes and have fun :-)

The cornstarch does settle so be sure to STIR each color well pretty much every time you are using it.  you will feel the thickness and notice a difference it how it works.

This was after we added the food coloring, we left one white.

Landon's happy little face after he made his first mark on the sidewalk.

My little artist, she adored this!

Making a butterfly.  I need to invest in some bigger paint brushes.  I highly recommend BIGGER paint brushes for this project.  I only had my tiny little ones, made making these big drawings much more time consuming.

Gloria's butterfly.  They loved how it went on really wet and dried like chalk.  It was pretty cool and so pretty!

Landon's masterpiece

Landon decided it was cool to paint his arm too.  It WAS actually really neat. It would run down his arm all liquidy and then dry like chalk, he enjoyed watching the change happen.

We will definitely be doing this project many more times this summer!

Homemade Finger Paints

Running low on paints?  Make your own, that's what we did.  Really, this was just a fun, easy project to do with Gloria.  She loves making things and this recipe was perfect for her to take control of and do on her own.  I gently guided her with the measurements but for the most part, she made these all by herself.

Here's what you need: 

3tbsp sugar

1/2tsp salt

1/2 cup corn starch

2 cups water

Here's what you do:

Combine ingredients in small saucepan

Warm until mixture thickens (this took longer then expected)

Cool and pour into jars.  We used mason jars but baby food jars would be the perfect size.

Add food coloring to make desired colors

ENJOY!

Gloria's little hand stirring the paint.

Adding our colors

Blue, Purple, Yellow and Red.  These were fun to make and fun to use.  

Keep in mind that they are made using food coloring and some minor, temporary staining will occur, LOL  

Scavenger Hunt

It was a cloudy rainy day, perfect day for a scavenger hunt.  I printed out a free sheet I found and off we went.  They all loved it and we walked all the way around the neighborhood.

Gloria on the move, already spotting stuff.

  

He was quick to spot quite a few of the items. 

Landon enjoyed this most of all.  He thought it was the best thing EVER!  lol

He spotted something :-)

HAHA, he kept running and his pants were falling down.

Gloria's card all complete

This is the printable we used.  You can print this out and you cut it out, there are 4 total cards on one sheet. 

HAVE FUN!