SOAR!

The big girl SOARed today!

She was so surprised to hear her name called.
The Personal Best Award was given to her.

Here is what the teacher had to say about her:

"This student is always showing her best! She has really worked hard to improve her writing. In math, she is taking her time and showing work on all her problems. She is also a fabulous reader and ALWAYS actively participates in class discussions. I am so proud of her!"

Easter 2010

This year the Easter Bunny came big time. He hid eggs outside for the fist time. Because the Easter Bunny hid the eggs outside, it rained. Pretty sure that's the basis of Murphy's law.























Also, he went a little crazy and sent 4 baskets instead of 3. I think Grandma Birdie had something to do with that 4th one.

She Really Will Sleep Anywhere

When you're tired....

Plant Nursery

We went to the nursery today to pick up some flowers and herbs. Freya had a hay-day picking out flowers for her fairy area.

The turtle really is a huge draw.

The sign to the right of her says, "unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy."

Felt Easter Eggs

I had so much fun making these felt hearts for Valentines, I thought I would make some eggs for Easter.
















The hearts stayed up way too long because I loved to look at them.

This is an easy and fast craft.

Cut out your egg shape from two pieces of felt. If you would like ric-rac or ribbon as the stripes, glue down first, making sure they area bit longer than the egg for ease of sewing. Cut an extra length of ribbon for the hanger. Once the ribbon has tried, sew around your egg (sandwich the hanger of ribbon between the two pieces of felt and sew in while sewing around edges). Leave about an inch open to stuff with filling. You can cut off the extra ribbon at this time.

Have your child lightly stuff with filling. You can call this fine motor skill work or sweat shop labor. Whatever the PC term is at the moment. While your child is stuffing, work on sewing your next egg.











Once they are all filled, finish sewing the opening closed.




You can finish embellishing with hot glue and any little items you wish. I chose some fun roses, sequins and bows.

Hang on door knobs, pictures or anywhere you need a little holiday spirit!



I can see making these for many different holidays, shamrocks, ornaments, pumpkins etc.

Self Portraits

As I was taking photos off our film card, I ran into these.







I have no idea what is on her mind.

Tea Party

Saturday, I left to pick up the boy from soccer camp. When I got back, this is what I stumbled into. Clearly the girls talked Daddy into a tea party.



I'm very grateful for Raita obliging the girls and extremely thankful he let me take the photos.

SXSW '10

For the third year in a row, we took the kids down to listen to some music.




The boys are not shy about finding a good viewing spot.





Freya loves to sit in front and enjoy the music.






Didn't get any pics from the cupcakes but here are pics from last year. They are highly recommended if you're in the area.

Snow! In Texas!

That's right, big beautiful snow flakes!

To Infinity!

We had a few friends over the other day. The girls decided to build the legos as high as they could.

Raita helped once they couldn't reach any higher.




It finally did touch the ceiling. They girls thought it was so cool!

Happy 11th Birthday!

Yep, my oldest is 11! He was actually 11 almost a month ago, we had the party late. I tried to make it a surprise party but you all know how hard it is to keep something a secret from a child.


If you're wondering how I made this monster pastry you can see the recipe at Zaar. I love the Zaar.




If you want to wear out a bunch of kids, let them climb for an hour.


















Almost to the top!


Climbing

In a Band with Friends

Yeah, this isn't perfect but it sure is cute!

Breakfast Tacos

Yes Sir! That there is gonna make me a whole lot of Breakfast Tacos.


To see the full recipe go to Full Bellies, Happy Kids.

Christmas 2009

We had a lazy family day with lots of fun, movies and food. Oh we painted the master bath too but that wasn't fun.

The best was watching the older kiddos enjoy the youngest squeals of excitement with each opened present. She would exclaim, "ooohhh! Just what I always wanted!" Very entertaining.

Santa left some press-on nails:



The afternoon held the movies for us. I was amazed at how empty the town was. Not even McDonalds was open.

After Avatar and The Princess and the Frog, we headed home and made the best French Onion Soup. So good I can't even remember what else we had.

Baby needs more diapers after the Christmas feast:


Grammy sent this Princess ensemble