Family Home Evening Box

At Walmart right now you can get these crates for three dollars.  I saw them and I thought "that would make a perfect family home evening container." So I brought it home and pulled all of my manuels off the bookshelves and my papers out of the filing cabinet and put them in.  It's soo nice to have everything in one spot! I didn't realize I had soo much family home evening resources.  The talk Mothers Teaching Children in the Home (I know I've talked about it before, but it was such a great talk) gave me the idea to copy the lessons that I give in primary and keep them in a folder along with my pages of notes and the visual aids I used.  So that way when Macey and Maddy are older I can pull these lessons out and use 

them again.

 

Sorry the picture is so dark, my photoshop program is on the frits right now.  But anyways, doing this gives me more motivation to read every scripture associated with the lesson and to put more effort into the visual aids because I can use them again for a family home evening lesson in the future.  Right now they're to young to understand the Samson and Delilah lesson or the Ruth and Naomi lesson.  I'm pretty sure the lesson I gave Monday night on Obeying your Parents from the nursey manuel didn't quite sink in.  Oh well, I'll just keep trying I guess. :-) 

Been Busy

I've been making lots of stuff lately, I just haven't taken pictures and posted them yet.  I just got called as the Activities Day leader.  For all you non-LDS people, Activity Day is for girls 8-11 to go to activities and build friendships, learn new skills and have fun.  The first activity we do is going to be a big, fun get-together party.  I'm soo excited for it! I have soo many fun ideas for it - hopefully I can fit it in the budget I was given :-) I'll get some pictures taken (after I do the laundry and get back from the library, oh and do the dishes too) of the fun things I've made and am working on and get them posted here.  I know ya all want to see.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July! My fourth of July crafting mojo didn't kick in until a few hours before we went to a BBQ yesterday. (Bow tutorial link here.)  Luckily I had a little bit of red ribbon around the house.  Anyways, I hope you all have a happy and safe fourth!

Sock Puppets

"Hello, my name is Bob."

All you need is old socks, yarn, felt, googly eyes and you've got yourself hours of entertainment.  Thanks for the idea Mom!

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Stroller Blanket

Necessity is the mother of invention. - Plato

And a stroller blanket, I believe, is a necessity.  I came up with this little blanket because I hate picking the blanket up off the ground and putting it back on the baby (yuck!). Maddy seems to be a little kicker and is good at kicking her blanket off every ten steps.  However I can't let her go blanketless or else her legs would fry in the Southern Utah sun.  Anyways, I made this while the girls were down for a nap.  If anyone wants to make one let me know and I'll give you the dimensions and such.  Yay for an easy and useful project!

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Anniversary Present

This was my anniversary present to Justin.  It's a scrapbook called "100 Things I Love About You."  After about 70 my things that I love about him got a little creative, but I made it to 100.  This wasn't the easiest thing to do with a three year old and a three month old around, but I'm glad that I did it because he loved it, and even got a little teary eyed.  It was nice to let him know that the little things that he does for me don't go unnoticed.  The album is a 5x7 one that I picked up at Roberts and then I made and saved the pages in photoshop and had them printed at Costco.   I thought we were on a budget this month so I was trying to be all creative and thoughtful with his present and then he goes all out and buys me this.  I love it, but I feel like such a spoiled brat.  But not so spoiled that I'm going to return it or anything.  There are soo many fun projects than can be made on this baby, I can't wait to get started. 

Bean Bags

Sometimes the simplest games are the funnest.   I got this super squeezy-easy tutorial off of this blog. It's not like I really need instructions on how to sew a square, but her top-stiching idea is good because then you don't have to hand sew the opening shut.  I made the bean bags yesterday while Macey was at the dentist and then when she got home I showed her how you stand behind the line (the line being legos) and then toss them into a bucket.  Well, she thought it was funner to toss them NEXT to the bucket, just to be difficult.  Maybe today she will throw them INTO the bucket.   I don't know what to do with that kid sometimes. . . .