I need another week...

I had this great idea in my head for a craft. I started working on it and was looking cute until I thought "I should use a sharpie on it to make it stand out more." That is when my fun little art project started to look like a sixth grade poster.
I think I am going to head in a different direction with my craft. Maybe I will attempt it again one day with a different technique, but in the meantime, I need an extension. I think next time, if I am crazy enough to do this, I would cut out 1 inch squares from painters tape and then spray paint the canvas (after a primer). Then it would make for much cleaner lines. I think I will try to stick to a craft I know for now!

Off to the fair!

This week summer made its debut. The sun came out and the heat is on! So we have been out working hard to get the kids to crash. Wednesday we did the beach for hours, Thursday we hit up the Ladera Water Park and then Friday we hit up the fair. We were looking for this result:
Well we wet on opening day of the fair. There was free parking and admission and $1 rides, games and food samples. We waited in this line to get in:The crew:
Random, but funny.Brooklyn enjoying her $1 food samples.
Micah was loving the bumper cars and Megan was a trooper to go on with him and drive like a madman!We went to the barns and Brooklyn loved the animals, but she was a little timid around them. I caught this picture just as the pig moved. Check out the look on her face!Oxen...as you can see they are HUGE!The goat barn.
They are so cute! They loved the cows.The giant slide. The look on his face says it all!

Six

Six years ago today I married a wonderful man.

He supports me when I am feeling weak.

He loves me more than I love myself.

He is a doting father to his two munchkins.

He is always solid, reliable and collected.

He keeps us grounded when life tries to sweep us away.

He is patient when I have none.

He is my best friend and confidant.

Love you Chad!

Drumroll please...

...the winner is....Ali! I used random.org and they said six was the lucky number, so congrats! I have a special something I have in my head and I am going to see if I can make it work. Give me about a week. As for your questions, I just did an online application. I bet if I was to go in person I would have a better chance though!

We have been up to nothing and everything all at the same time. We have been busy with errands, the park, free summer movies and playing around the house. Anytime spent indoors includes some coloring time. That is Brooklyn's favorite thing to do. She can literally sit for an hour coloring! I have never seen a small kid have some much concentration when it comes to coloring. She will color her page and everyone else's in her nursery class. She is our artist. I think she really has a thing for it. I will have to post some of her masterpieces on here soon. For now, you get to see her playing hide and seek in her armoire!
Micah is my rock star and he will tell you that himself. If you know him, you have seen him either dance sing or play his guitar and most likely, he will be half naked. He is always singing and rocking out. Sometimes it is a song from the radio and other times it is his own beat. Anyways, we thought it might be time for him to graduate from the plastic electric guitar and try out daddy's real guitar. I would love him to pick up a talent for music. I wasn't any good at it, but I love music and the way it fills a home.

Last but not least, we finally got one of Micah's walls together. I have been gathering things here and there and this is the final product. I wanted to make sure to include his own art work, so we gave him a canvas to paint. If you look close you can pick out the letters of his name in it. I also put up cork boards so I can continue to rotate the art and since he will start soccer and school soon, I am sure we will have schedules, bulletins and hopefully an award for something he did well. Wishful thinking!

What do you do?

So what do you do when your mom tells you you need your hair trimmed?

You run to your sisters room and throw a pair of panties over your head of course! What, did you think he would really do it without putting up a fight?
So what do you do when you are in the middle of dinner and feel like it needs a little pizazz?

You stand up and sit back down like this. After all, Cirque du Soliel tryouts are coming up and limberness is key!
So what do you do when your life as a mommy is getting monotonous?

You sign up for Wipeout on a dare! No, I'm not joking. I love that show and I was watching last week as a girl from one of my old soccer teams won the whole game and I thought, why not me? So my friend Lindsey told me she signed up and she dared me to too. So I did! Ladies, if you are local and not preggo sign up with me. What do you have to lose?

So what do you do when you have a crafty habit and a blog?

You do a giveaway! You want to win something? OK, here is your chance. Leave a comment and tell me what reality show you would be willing to go on. What you get will be something I will make. It will be geared towards kids, so if you don't have any, you will get a great baby gift for your next shower. I may make a hat, or a bow, or a shirt. It may have fabric, it may have ribbon, perhaps paint, or even buttons. Maybe a combo! Leave me a comment and I will pick a name on Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

Falling Behind

We have been both busy and sit around here, so I am falling behind. First here are a few shots of the kids with Chad and some of our typical evening activities. The kids love going around and around and around this "race track" in the front.Our fourth was a little off beat for us. We had been planning on going to a baby blessing for my cousin's baby and arranged a sub for our class at church. Then as Sunday approached we all came down with a bit of a cold. Too sick to be around babies, but too healthy not to get outside. We decided to head over to the street fair at Lake Mission Viejo and walked around. They had all the trucks a boy could want: fire, ambulance and trash! Later we headed over to my parents house for BBQ and good company. When it came time to do the fireworks, Micah went with my parents and Chad, Brooklyn and I headed home for the night. I know, total party poopers, right? Well, it is cold and late and we were sick, so we watched the firworks at Lake Mission Viejo from our patio!

Costco and Crafts

Yesterday I went over to my parents house to pick up Micah and while I was there, my dad decided that he needed to gas up the RV (it is his new baby). So we all hopped in and headed to Costco. He dropped us off to enjoy food court meals while he gassed up. We sat and sat and just happened to run into my friend Debbie and she joined us for a while to eat. As she got up to leave we thought we better go look for my dad since it had been a while. As we were getting up to go, an old lady next to us decided to pipe up.
"Take those kids home, they are miserable."
I thought she was joking so I laughed a bit.
"They are bad kids."
Then I realized she was serious. My mom replied with, "They're not bad kids, they are fun kids."
Let me preface this with the fact that both kids were not feeling well, especially Brooklyn. It was also passed nap time so they weren't on their best behavior, but they also weren't hellians.
The old bag decided to chime in again, "I have four kids and twenty six grandkids. I know kids and those are bad kids."
My mom was not having it, "I have four kids too and I know kids and these are not bad kids."
"Oh yes they are."
I had had enough, "They are not bad kids. Come on you guys let's go."
Old bag, who by the way is sitting by herself, "Good, you shouldn't take them out around people anyways."
My reply, "Should I put them in cages then? How would you feel about that?"
"Take them home."
I know it's not nice or Christlike, but I was pissed, "Old hag!" Then I left.
Of course, it isn't until later that I can think of all the great zingers, but that just goes to show you I am not much of a fighter. Anyways, I was pissed. I have never had anyone be so outright rude to me. I know my kids aren't perfect, but I think they are pretty good kids and since beating and drugging kids isn't right (or legal) I am teaching them with love and patience. Hope it pays off!

On to crafting! I have been doing a lot of little things here and there. I took these old letter and decopaged them with scrapbook paper and now they stand out on B's shelf.
I got around to rearranging Micah's room a bit and put his name up in a better place this time. I think it fits much better here.
I saw this craft on Ucreate. It is a great site that has so many craft tutorial. I did this with fabric paint, a few rhinestones and sewed on a silk flower. She loves it!
Then I thought these buttons would be cute on a shirt with her initial. A needle, thread and some glue for placement=a shirt just for Miss B!
She is wearing the other shirt I made today and when I asked her to show me her "b" she did this. She comes with a lot of attitude!Finally she turned around. A little fabric fusing and a ribbon rosette and you are done!
I have been working on gathering several pieces of "art" for the wall in Micah's room. I decided that we needed to add these two license plates to the wall. Georgia is from Chad's mission and Hawaii is from his college days. I got this shadow box at Michael's for 40% off and then took the pearls off the top of the pins and put little tires on the ends. I hope I can get that wall done soon!
This is what I am going to work on next. This should be a chore chart next time you see it. I am thinking some print outs, scrapbook paper, velcro and buttons. That should do the trick.