The last few weeks have literally flown by. We have had stuff going on during the weeks, on the weekends and it all blends together after a while.
Two saturday's ago BYU played Tulsa in Tulsa, so Rich and I and Alex and Ashley went to the game. It was Alex and Ashley's first time going to a football game and even though BYU lost the game, it was a fun experience. Our seats were three rows from the top of the stadium (and those were the "premium" seats... I wonder where the "cheap" seats were??) Alex kept up a barrage of asking Rich to go get him a drink and food and he was bored... for the whole first half. I think Rich was probably to the point of having us leave and go home by half-time. A bunch of friends from the ward also had tickets near us and they talked to another family that was at the game via cell phones. Turns out the other family was on the other side of the stadium 5 rows up from the very front. There weren't very many people over there and there was lots of empty seats so they said we should come on over. So all of us went on over to that side of the stadium for the second half. It was right in front of the cheerleading squad and Ashley just sat mesmerized for the rest of the game watching the cheerleaders doing their cheers. Alex had fun standing down at the wall right behind the team and watching from there. He was a little scared of Cosmo when he came over and he scrambled up the bleachers back to us when Cosmo was shaking hands and signing autographs at the wall. Overall it was a fun night and neat to do something with both of the older kids and both Rich and I. We had a babysitter stay at home with Alyssa and Angela and just spend the night since we got home at 2am.
Last week I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I was going to do for my SuperSaturday class. I found so many fun crafts to do with kids. My class was on Christmas Crafts for Kids.. Here's some of the neat things I found or did:
Popsicle stick frames:
Take popsicle sticks and glue them together to make frames of different shapes and sizes. There are lots of different sizes of popsicle sticks available in the craft aisle.
After the glue is dried- paint it with paints, or squeeze on some glitter glue for decorations. Take a picture and cut it to the size of the frame, and then cut some felt and glue it to the back.
Now you have your own unique photo and frame- great for a gift from your kids to grandparents!
Snowman bell necklace:
1-Take a bell and string some ribbon through it to make the necklace chain.
2-Take a large white pompom and glue it on the top of the bell.
3-Cut a pipecleaner down to a 3 inch piece. Glue small red pom pom balls on each end, then bend it and glue on the top of the large white pom pom to make earmuffs.
4-Cut a brown pipecleaner into one 4 inch section, and two 1 inch sections. Wrap the 1 inch sections across about ½ inch from each end of the 4 inch section. Glue the pipecleaner between the bell and large pom pom across the back- bend to make it look like the arms and hands of the snowman.
5- Take a multicolored pipecleaner and cut it to about a 4-5 inch section. Wrap it around where the bell and large pompom meet and then bend it to make a scarf.
Window Decorations:
A great way to put your kids artwork up on your windows!
1-Take a favorite coloring page, and a clear page protector.
2-Slide the coloring page inside of the page protector, and then using permanent markers let your kids color the coloring page on the page protector.
3-When they are done, pull the page out, and tape the page protector to the window or mirror.
Rubbing alcohol will clean it off if you want to reuse the page protectors.
Balloon globes:
1-Take a small balloon and blow it up.
2-Dipping string in white glue, then wrap string around the balloon to form a delicate globe/ball.
3-Make sure all the string has glue on it, so it will stick together well.
4-After the glue dries, pop the balloon and pull it out.
Martha Stewart has a lot of neat ideas to do with pipecleaners. Just search for christmas decorations and pipecleaners on her website; Marthastewartliving.com
Here are some other websites and ideas:
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/treeornaments/l/blorncdphoto.htm
http://www.kinderart.com/recycle/cardbox.shtml
http://www.rumpets.com/GoodiesCrafts7.html
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/christmas.html
http://www.craftelf.com/reindeer_lollipop.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_11100_make-gingerbread-christmas.html
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/cotton-snowman.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Shootingstar.shtml
http://www.crafty-moms.com/christmas-crafts.shtml
This weekend we also had some guests come and visit. Rich's brother Dave came to visit with his girlfriend Amanda. We had a great time seeing them and playing games, talking, and just visiting with them. It's too bad we live so far apart that we an only see them a few times a year. Our kids just absolutely adore them and we do to!
We are in the process of moving around stuff in the house again. Our office that we turned into a playroom, is now going to be converted into Alex's bedroom. Alex's bedroom will be repainted to a girl friendly color (right now it's dark, dark blue), and Ashley will now have her own room. The toys will be distributed between rooms and a few will be taken upstairs. The tv downstairs will go upstairs and the upstairs will now be the kids zone and playroom area. Downstairs Rich has gotten a big tv and nice console that we will do the main tv viewing on. The big screen and projector upstairs will be set aside for special occasions and movie nights. The big screen actually will be replaced with a roll down screen sometime in the future, so it can be used and then put away safely where kids will not decide to draw a mural on it, or run through it and rip it up... etc...
The tv is here, but the console to put it on, was damaged at the furniture store, so we have the tv sitting on the floor in our room to keep it safe until the console gets here. We got new dressers for Alex and Ashley because they'll need them with this new rearrangement of rooms, and we never had dressers for them before (we've always had closet drawers/shelving that we've used for them). Ashley's dresser is sitting in the living room for now since we'll have to empty Alex's stuff from his room and paint it before she can take up occupancy...
So we are here, we are happy and healthy and doing well... and I still feel like I fill my calender up with more than I'd like, but I don't want to give up anything that is mine on my calender, and I can't take away the other family members activities. Compared to a lot of people we don't have a lot going on, so I need to just remember that and organize myself a little bit more (so we can have some yummy dinners on Karate nights and not just frozen stuff and leftovers those nights) and then I'll feel like I've got things under control.
Right now though... I've got to go pick up kids from school and meet Rich at the dentist's office to drop off Alex for his dental appointment. At least I got this updated a little bit... now lets see if I can get back to it before 2 more weeks have passed by... :)
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