Lucy in her Jane Fonda leg warmers looking like she is exercising!
Lucy wearing my boots and nothing but a diaper! How cute is she? She has learned to strip down to a diaper and goes around the house hunting for everybody's shoes. We have a shoe scramble every morning trying to find where Lucy wore them last.
Blaine has been itching to teach the boys to shoot ever since we moved out to the country. Blaine is super safe with his gun handling and has taught the boys the same safety routine when handling a gun. I believe that if kids know what guns are, how to handle them safely, and understand the seriousness behind what happens when you shoot a gun they will be less likely to have an accidental mishandling of a gun. All of this has to be age appropriate mind you. After feeling like the boys were finally ready to shoot and understood the safety rules, with Blaine's close help and supervision he took the boys out for a little target practice. FYI: the boys know they only touch the guns with Blaine's help and the rest of the time the guns are locked up in a safe.
Cooper shooting like a pro.
Carter needs a lot more help from Blaine. Blaine never takes his hands off Carter when he lets him shoot.
The other night when it was time for the boys to go to bed, Cooper asked for a few more minutes to play with his Legos so he could finish something. After he went to bed I went to inspect what he was building that was so important. I had to laugh as I found all his Lego people tucked into their own beds!! :)
With the new year came a new group of Sunbeams in my 4 year old class at church that had to get used to sitting and listening and not playing with toys the whole class. I knew I wanted something that could occupy them and keep them quite while we waited for all the kids to arrive and while I gave my lesson. While in Wal-mart I found a pack of laminating sheets and it hit me that I could laminate a coloring sheet and let the kids use dry erase crayons(if you haven't discovered Crayolas dry erase crayons yet, go out and buy some right now) to color and then after class I could wipe them off an reuse them next week. I've used them for two weeks now and they have worked GREAT! My kids love them too!!! It keeps them busy on Sunday afternoons. I have now laminated quite a few different pictures for the boys and they can't wait to color, wipe and color again! FYI: a paper towel with water or windex works best to clean the laminated coloring sheets.
KCooper's finished laminated coloring sheet
Lucy got in on the action. She loved it and since the sheets are more sturdy then a piece of paper she dosen't rip it or crumple it while coloring.
Ever since the Christmas decorations came down everything looked so bare. I finally broke down and put out the Valentines decorations. Awwww, much better!! :)
Since we moved I've had so much fun starting over with the house decorations and trying out a few Pinterest DIY projects! In our rental house the kitchen was already an orange color that was recently painted so instead of repainting the kitchen I left it and just touched up the paint (after re-painting almost every other room in our rental house I let the kitchen be). Anyway, long story short I decided to use lime green, aqua and orange for my color scheme to pull the orange into my decorations. Thanks to Pinterest I have been able to make the colors work and make some CUTE and CHEAP decorations that I am now in love with!
These decorations are normally on the mantle but have found a new home until the Valentine decorations come down. The B is a cheap wood B from Hobby Lobby that I decoupaged with scrapbook paper. The frame was an old frame that I just repainted and sanded. The vases were cheap vases from Wal-Mart that I painted the inside of them with craft paint.
Wood block letters that I decoupaged with scrapbook paper and then cut out vinyl letters with a circuit machine. Stacey Harker if you are checking this you should be proud of me!!!
The orange wall is my kitchen wall. Told you it was orange!! :)
My most recent project. A magnetic board for pictures. I bought a cheap magnetic board from Wal-mart covered it with fabric and added some upholstery nails! Voila!!!
My most favorite Pinterest inspired photo collages. These are hanging on my two main living room walls. Most of the frames were old frames in various colors that I repainted and sanded down (except for the large one which I bought). I still have to add some vinyl lettering to the top frames with fabric inside(FYI: those frames are from Hobby Lobby).
I still have a million ideas and spaces to decorate, but I can only conquer one cute project at a time! Lol :)
If you didn't get my Christmas card or if you just didn't look on the back, we are expecting baby #4 in July! I am about 16 weeks along. We are excited and hoping for another girl!!! I am feeling great but am showing earlier then with the previous babies, seriously causing a too tight clothes problem. Lol :) I guess I'm going to have to break out the maternity clothes.
Cooper's angry bird pajamas that Lucy has claimed as her own. She wraps them around her shoulders and walks around all day with them on pointing to them and saying "bird, bird" over and over. Cooper tries to take them back but she screams and cries until he gives them back.
Sporting a little ponytail!
Watching Cartoons while wearing her princess shoes!
She's saying "Look, look Elmo"!
During the boys Christmas break from school we had many quiet and lazy days. Many days I found Carter quietly reading several of the Magic Tree House books Cooper got for Christmas. I got the books for Cooper not Carter since I didn't think Carter would really get into chapter books, but he surprised me and read 4 of the books in the series over Christmas break. When I asked Carter why he enjoyed reading them so much he said "I was bored and needed some entertainment!" Lol:)
Santas gifts! We have to thank Uncle Ben for helping out Santa with the Lego table! The boys love it!!! It is defiantly the all time favorite gift. Cooper has been spending several hours after school each day building all kinds of creations!!
Love their expressions as they race down the hall to see their gifts for the first time!
Lucy was just excited to get candy!
She loved that we let her eat as much candy as she wanted!
After she ate all the candy she could find she finally decided to check out her toys!
Lucy hogging the Nabi (kid friendly tablet).Can you tell who's the boss around here! 
Christmas party at my mom's. For the grand kids my mom laid out dollar bills on the table, gave each kid a sticky hand stretchy thing and let them take turns trying to stick their sticky hand to a dollar bill!!! It was the hit of the party!
Lucy and her girly presents from mom.
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