Make a Puzzle Countdown Calendar
Gresham is turning 4 next Sunday!! He is so excited. He wants to have a dinosaur birthday party. I told him a little over a week ago that his birthday was in 3 weeks. He was SO excited to hear...
View ArticleDinosaur Birthday Party
*Whew!* We made it through our 4 year old’s birthday party! Now, I have nothing at all against birthday parties, but my husband had surgery on Friday and the baby has a horrible fever/cold. When we...
View ArticleFrugal Toy Story Army Guy Costume
The boys got to dress up last night for our church’s annual fall festival, and they had a great time! We usually try to do a more labor-intensive costume every other year or so. Last year, Aidan just...
View ArticleFun Things to do with Acorns!
I have been wanting some acorns to decorate with (being as how fall has just arrived in Texas…), and so my boys and I went to the park last week to collect some! We were disappointed to find a zillion...
View ArticleHandprint Turkeys
After I wrote the title of this post, I decided that these aren’t exactly handprints. But hand-outline turkeys didn’t sound very cute. So I’m calling them handprint turkeys. I guess if you really want...
View ArticleAdvent Tree
We are doing an advent tree (or Jesse tree as they are also called) this year at our house! Basically, an advent tree is a way for families to celebrate advent by studying the story of Christ...
View ArticleEasy Christmas Ornaments to Make
I made these ornaments when I was in kindergarten, and I still hang them on the tree every year! (I also have one from preschool – it’s a styrofoam bell with gold glitter and “Sarah 1982” written on...
View ArticleFelt Star Christmas Ornaments
Today we were supposed to go to a GI appointment for Owen, but he woke up with a fever, so we had to cancel the appointment. After the week we’ve had, I was happy to not drive an hour each way to his...
View ArticleYear End Scrapbook Activity
We had a New Year’s Eve party at home with the boys tonight! We fixed some family favorites – little smoked sausages baked in crescent rolls, green beans, cheese and crackers, apple slices, and...
View ArticleSkateboard Birthday Cake
I am awful at making birthday cakes. Somehow, the art of making a traditional two-layer birthday cake seems to elude me. One year, I forgot to put icing between the layers (I think that was Aidan’s...
View ArticlePet Show Themed Birthday Party
Gresham is 5 years old! At our house, we do the first “real” party with invitations and friends at age 5. Gresham loves dogs, and we came up with the idea several months ago to do a dog show party....
View ArticleFrugal Costume Ideas: Frontiersman, Zookeeper, and More
Last night was our church’s annual fall fair! Our costumes were simpler than the Toy Story Army Guy costumes that we did last year, but we still had a great time! Gresham was a zookeeper. It was his...
View ArticleThanksgiving Activities for Kids
We haven’t done any Thanksgiving activities yet, but we’re planning to spend next week doing that! We’ll post the things we do, but here are some activity ideas to get you started! Rachel at Quirky...
View ArticleMake an Advent Book
I can’t remember what exactly got me thinking about the word “advent” – maybe it was the Star Wars Lego advent calendar I saw in the store, or the one filled with candy and decorated with pictures of...
View ArticleEasy-to-Make Felt Snowman Toddler Activity
Keeping Owen (age 2) busy while we do our home school work is a perpetual challenge… I am always on the lookout for things that keep him busy at the table or on the floor near us, but that don’t...
View ArticleTeaching Kids to Serve Others
One of the things that my husband and I desire for our children is that they learn to serve others. We want them to consider others as more important than themselves (Philippians 2) and to realize...
View ArticleWe tried to take a nice family picture…
Hi, this is Owen. Mom doesn’t usually let me up at the computer, being as how I’m 2 and all, but since she’s folding laundry and not paying attention, I thought I’d share our family Christmas photos...
View ArticleExpectation
The countdown has begun for the arrival of baby boy #4… Our other boys were born at 37, 38, and 38 weeks, so it could be as soon as next week, or as far away as the second week of January if this...
View ArticleBest of 2011
Happy New Year’s Eve! 2011 really seemed to fly by for our family! Of course, I spent half the year expecting our fourth son, so that may have something to do with it! Hopefully we will be seeing our...
View ArticleEaster Egg Word Match-up Game
Here’s an idea for a quick and easy game for kids who are learning to read! I cut out Easter egg shapes from construction paper, and then cut them in half to look like broken eggs. I wrote parts of...
View ArticleResurrection Garden Centerpiece – The Procrastinator’s Version
I saw this idea for a resurrection garden on We are THAT Family, and LOVED it, but I didn’t get started in enough time to make it the way they did with grass seed and actual grass growing. So here is...
View ArticleThanksgiving Creations with Duplo Legos
Keep the little people at your Thanksgiving celebration busy with some Duplo building ideas! (We also have a some ideas for “big boy” Legos here!) Aidan and Gresham designed an Indian, Pilgrim,...
View ArticleBuild a Lego Turkey!
Do your kids have extra time on their hands while school is out for the Thanksgiving holiday? Or do you have extra kids to entertain at your house this week? Here are a couple Thanksgiving LEGO®...
View ArticleMake a Thanksgiving Book
Here is something to do with little ones to keep them busy during the holiday week! I made these Thanksgiving books with Gresham (6) and Owen (3) last week over the course of three days, and I was...
View ArticleMake a Silly Character Turkey
We had some leftover blank turkeys from our Nerf Turkey Targets, and the other day I had the idea of turning them into funny characters! Aidan thought it was a great idea, and he made Luke Skygobbler...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His steadfast love is everlasting.” Psalm 118:1 We have so much to be thankful for this year. And on top of all that, the Lord just provided my husband...
View ArticleChristmas Countdown Tree (for Jesse Tree Ornaments)
The past two years, our family has enjoyed creating an Advent Tree (also called a Jesse Tree) to count down to Christmas. Actually, the first year we did a tree, sort of. We never could get our tree...
View ArticleHow God provided a bicycle for a 9 year old boy who wanted one
Aidan has been a growing kid lately! He now officially eats more than me. He would eat all the time if I would let him! Back in the summer, we noticed that his bicycle was getting to be too small,...
View ArticleEasy DIY Christmas Candle Jars
These Christmas Candle Jars are a great homemade gift that kids can make and give! The boys enjoyed making fall candle jars, and I bought a couple of extra jars to use as gifts, but we never got around...
View ArticleRemember the Year Month by Month
2012 was a really big year for our family! We welcomed a new baby on January 3rd. It’s been incredible to watch Jonathan grow from a newborn baby to crawling to first steps all in one calendar year....
View ArticleIdeas for Celebrating a Birthday Right Around the Holidays
Does someone in your house have an awkward birthday? You know, a birthday that lands right near the holidays? It can be hard to figure out how to celebrate when a child’s birthday lands on Thanksgiving...
View ArticleAdorable Pine Cone Turkeys
Kids will have a blast decorating for Thanksgiving with these adorable Pine Cone Turkeys! There are so many ways to make this classic Thanksgiving craft. I’ve seen pine cone turkeys with construction...
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