playing

with noodles.

G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "No, they are old and yucky and not cooked."
1 min later
G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "I already told you- no."
1 min later
G- "Can I eat one?"
Me- "No." [rolling eyes]


Look at this smile. He was so happy when he saw me take these out.

He gets to practice pouring, sorting and when he's done- cleaning (he doesn't know that part yet).

my sister

Her name is Brittany. She lives an hour away. She has a boy two weeks younger than Ethan. We are nothing alike. She is a friend that I don't often see. Or lately talk to. I miss her.
Random:
-When our bedrooms were next to each other, we would tap the wall with messages we probably didn't understand, when we should have been sleeping.
-I threw a snowball at her once. I had hidden a piece of ice in it. It wasn't pretty. I don't even know why I did it.
-She tried to run away when I was babysitting her.
-She used to mimic my tap dancing.
-We used to make home movies with our cousins. She did some great commercials. :)
-She wore the most awesome and 'her' oufit to her Grade 8 grad.
-She threw her diaper over the fence at some boys.
-She also threw my hamster.
-We shared a room at times. It was messy.
-We played dress up together.
-She couldn't keep a secret as a kid. She told our mom that dad bought her some birds for Christmas and they were at our Grandma's.
-She loves animals and has fostered and owned many.
-She has awesome lips.
-She is 3 years younger than I am.
-She rode her bike to the convenience store when she was three or four. By herself. No my mom didn't let her.
-She has a tattoo and a tongue piercing.
-She is beautiful.
-She probably doesn't know how much I love her.

***image heavy***

Just some random pics from this weekend.
My garden:




My boys:



Ethan's squirrel house (an idea from The Creative Family):
Ethan building his squirrel house:


Desi:
Some craft time yesterday:
Ethan loves to create things, Gavin loves to play with the supplies.


The kids and I made some awesome bread this morning. It was a recipe from soulemama.com called WHO bread (wheat, honey and oats). It was sooo good, and it used ingredients that I had on hand, which was nice since I haven't been shopping too much lately.

I did it!

I made a journal yesterday! It really didn't take that long, if it did I wouldn't have finished it. I don't know what I enjoyed more- making the journal or just finishing a whole project in no time! I had hoped to use all recycled papers, but I knew it would take days to find what I wanted, so I used some blank white pages, some scrapbooking papers I had left over and some 'found' papers like envelopes. It was alot of fun. While I cut the pages to the right size, Gavin was cutting up papers into a million tiny pieces (one of his favourite things to do). That kept him busy and Ethan was at school. I used a pad of paper that measured 4x5.5, so I cut my other papers to that size and then I didn't need to cut every single page. I also used the chipboard backs of the pads as covers. I put a picture of each boy on the covers and bound with kraft paper from a lunch bag. Total cost = approx $1.50 (because the scrapbooking papers were scraps anyway).





Here's a tutorial video : Photojojo

so much

I want to do right now:
1- learn how to sew
2- learn how to embroider
3- learn how to use my camera better
4- study the Bible more
5- do more crafts with the kids
6- go on a vacation with Perry
7- make books (journals)

Too much going on, I don't even have time to go to the grocery store.
It's a good busy, I guess. But I don't know when it will stop.

inspired

First off, this little guy was running around our backyard this morning and I love grey squirrels, so the kids and I were watching him. He started to come closer to the house and hopped onto the top and the fence and started looking around. Then he spotted us in the window, and he froze- for almost a minute, staring. Of course, by the time I got my camera he wasn't looking anymore, but at least he was still there.
Secondly, I just discovered soulemama. I love her. lol. I bought her book from Amazon on Sunday night and I got it yesterday. I haven't had much of a chance to read it yet, but it looks soooo good.

She sews, embroiders, knits- all stuff I tried as a kid and never really got into too much. But I want to now (not knitting as much as the other two). She homeschools her kids and they are very focused on creativity. The kids artwork is turned into pillows (embroidered), wall hangings, quilts, greeting cards, gifts, etc. I just love the whole idea of having so much time focused on being creative. I haven't desired to do anything creative for months, and now I want to try so many things. Check her out!
Happy Wednesday! My mom, grandma and nephew are coming over for a fun day!

crafty fun

Colouring the back of wrapping paper:

Watercolours and glueing (?):




Collage of things we found outside:

And Desi, not doing any crafty things :)