Field Trip To Thanksgiving Point Farm

It has been so fun being a room mom in Caleb's class this year. I have loved being in the classroom and helping with activities and parties and watching Caleb interact with his classmates and friends. On Friday May 20th we headed up to the Thanksgiving Point Farms for a field trip. It had been rainy all week and was to rain Friday as well. We were prepared with umbrellas but we lucked out, it was overcast but held up until about five minutes after we left. It poured after that. Thank you mother nature for holding the rain back long enough to enjoy our day. Caleb was so excited to have me riding the bus with him and being with him throughout the day. We split up into groups and rotated through different stations. We learned about some of the animals and what they eat, what they are used for, etc. We then enjoyed a wagon ride, followed by visitng all the animals and feeding them. It was a lot of fun and the kids were all so well behaved in our group. I love you Caleb and am so glad that I was able to be with you on this special day!

Mother's Day Program

On the Friday before Mother's Day, Caleb's kindergarten class had a Mother's Day program. He was so excited for me to come and I was quite excited myself. It was so cute! The kids sang a song to us called "Little Pearlie Shells." It was adorable! Then each child was called up one at a time to get the present they made an bring it to us mother's. The necklaces that they made and wore during their song were then placed on each of our necks. I opened my gift which Caleb was so excited to give me. It was a plate that he decorated. I still remember doing the same thing for my mom in kindergarten. He did such a great job on it and the wrapping paper was just as cute!We then enjoyed banana splits together. Bailey was so happy to be their with us as well. It was a great start to the Mother's Day weekend. On Sunday the kids and Tommy made me breakfast. We then all got in a nap together after church, which was the best. We then headed to my parents for a BBQ. The guys always do such a good job with the food. It was a such a nice relaxing day! I was treated so well by my little family.

Easter 2011

Easter turned out to be a nice day for the most part. It had been rainy for many days leading up to Easter Sunday. We got up and the kids saw their baskets and then we got ready and headed to church. We had some wonderful talks! We came home and did an Easter egg hunt with the kids. I made some homemade rolls for dinner at my moms. We headed over their later on and my parents did another Easter egg hunt for all the grand kids. The kids were loving all the hunts. My sister Stephanie brought some amazing deviled eggs. She had gotten some recipes out of a magazine from food network stars. My favorite was a chile-cheddar deviled egg. Oh my goodness they were so good!!! We had an amazing dinner of ham, potatoes, homemade rolls, grapefruit-avocado salad, and green salad. My sister also made a delicious fruit-meringue style dessert. It was a great day and a wonderful time to reflect on Christ's resurrection!!

Dying Eggs/Egging Neighbors

I found a really cute idea to print off a page that read "You've Been Egged" (we added by the Royer's) and leave candy filled eggs on the lawn or porch of friends and neighbors. I went out with the kids and bought a ton of plastic eggs and candy and we filled them up and ran around to 7 different houses. The kids had a BLAST leaving this on doorstops, knocking and running. I think it will be a new tradition. Later on in the week our friends invited us over to have chips and dips and dye Easter eggs. The kids had so much fun! Bailey was more anxious to eat the eggs this year. They were barely able to dry before she was cracking in to them.

Kitchen Redo

We have been wanting to make some changes in our place and well I got tired of putting it off, so in mid April we repainted our red wall to a yellow. Took off all our kitchen cabinets and painted them white and put new hardware on them and spray painted the light fixture in the kitchen black. I love the way it looks now and how much it has opened things up. I am still in the process of making new pillow covers in blues and yellows for our couches. I am also going to repaint our front room and hallway a light gray and I am going to stencil one of the walls. I also will be painting and antiquing the computer desk a blue shade. I have been changing out art work and making other little changes around the house too. I will post more pictures down the road. It definitely took some time but we love our new kitchen. And I totally forgot to take a before of the kitchen cabinets so i found a very old picture that shows the color a little bit.

Before
After

Cabinet color before

Cabinet and light fixture after
Blue color