Monday Makings

Now that spring has sprung and flowers are blooming, the grass (and weeds) are growing, the insects (good and icky/scary ones) are out, the birds are singing, not to mention there's lots of pollen in the air and the allergies are acting up, I decided that an insect craft would be perfect for our Monday Makings. We gathered up some boring old rocks and magically turned them into beautiful ladybugs! We started with painting the rocks red, then took care of bath time while the paint dried and then we added the black spots and faces.

Meet our little ladybug family...from left to right, Braden's Brikelle's Bailee's & Mom's

Family Tree

Bailee's class at school is now working on their "Families" unit. They were assigned a project which was to create a family tree and write a story with information they gathered from interviewing family members. We had a good time working on this project and Bailee is excited to take it to school tomorrow to show everyone her family!

Some family members had to get drawn in because we didn't have pictures. Good thing Bailee is such a good little artist!

Thanks to all those who helped and answered the interview questions!

Spring Break and Stuff

I've been a bit of a slacker with blogging so I decided it was time to fix it! Here are a bunch of pictures of what we've been up to for the last two weeks. Bailee had her Spring Break and we had a two week visit with Grandma Jones, and Grandpa Jones got to spend a week here too.

Each of the kids planted their own pot of flower seeds

Brikelle's is the first to start growing. I hope the other two pots will grow soon!

Bailee and I took advantage of having Grandma here to babysit and we snuck out to see the Hannah Montana movie. It was a cute movie and we bought the soundtrack right after!

Playing Super Hero!

Cutest Super Hero I ever did see!

Bailee's class at school just finished up their plant unit. Here is her plant that she grew all by herself and is now like 3xs the size!

Another one of Brikelle's random naps!

Enjoying Grandma and Grandpa time

Playing a fun bean bag toss game with Grandpa

Braden's new best friend aka: Nellie

Family Fun Night at Bailee's school with lots to do. Unfortunately less than 2 hours into it, we got rained out. But it was fun while it lasted!

I kept asking Brikelle if she wanted a rainbow or a flower or hearts or a sun...nope, she wanted a "nake". At least it's purple and pink!

Braden's cool Black Widow...eww!

And beautiful hearts for Bailee

So there it is, our last two weeks in a nutshell!

Hoppy Easter!

We had a nice Easter this year. Although Daddy wasn't here to spend it with us, we did get to spend Easter with Grandma Jones! She is here visiting with us and we are happy and excited to have her here. Bailee is on Spring Break this week so she's happy to have time to spend with Grandma. The kids were excited to see that the Easter Bunny left each of them a little gift and candy in their baskets, plus some eggs with candy inside around the house. After church we enjoyed our yummy traditional Easter dinner...ham, mashed potatoes, corn, salad and rolls. I love Easter and I love this time of year!

Party Girl

I'm very slow at getting Bailee's party pictures up, but here they are...finally! Bailee got to have two parties this year because Grandma and Grandpa had to leave just a few days before her birthday and she wanted to be able to celebrate with them. So as an early birthday party Bailee invited some church friends over for a PJ/movie party. We had cupcakes and snacks and the girls watched the new Barbie Thumbelina movie. I think everyone had a good time and it was fun to be able to party with Grandma and Grandpa! On Bailee's real birthday we had four school friends and two neighborhood friends over for a Hannah Montana PJ/movie party. Another fun night! Bailee is quite the party girl!

Church friends Scary faces! G & G got this book for Bailee. For a year or so now she has been fascinated with China. She always asks questions about it and her answer to everything is always something to do with China! Her biggest question and concern in life right now is "Mom, why do some of the toys that Santa brought us say Made in China?" She checks everything to see if it says Made in China. So if anyone knows the answer to that question please let me know! All I've said is "I don't know, but that's a really good question!"
Homemade cupcakes (from a box of course) with Grandma's real homemade frosting. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!
Birthday breakfast...chocolate donut with a candle!
She opened a few things that morning and the rest when her friends were over. She's wanted this car for her doll house for a long time! She loves to pose for the camera if you didn't already know!

School and neighborhood friends
Being silly!

The one time Brikelle actually wanted her picture taken!

Since Christmas Bailee has gotten into these Peek-a-Boo dolls. I couldn't pass up the Wizard of Oz collection...too cute!