My resolutionary challenge

1. Do the dishes before I go to bed.

2. Drink 8 glasses of water.

3. Exercise 30 minutes.

4. Be ready to present myself to the world by 11 a.m.

5. Eat 2 servings of fruit/3 servings of vegetables each day.

6. Savor up to one small treat/per day

7. Take 15 minutes me time.

8. Finish eating by 9 p.m.

9. Wild Card :

10. Do something today that will make a difference and record it in my journal.

Another baby shower

I just love throwing showers, especially baby showers. Here's a banner I made with my SIL. I love the way it turned out! It was a double baby shower, one cousin was having a boy, one a girl.

My new favorite spot

Work progressing...

    The other day I decided it was time to get out my things and make an owl.  I have been wanting to try making one of these for two years now and I finally got around to it!  It is turning out so cute.  The only problem is that I want it to be able to sit up.  I think I'll be putting one of those bead packs in the bottom or something.

    I bought a whole bunch of apples and spent a good amount of time making applesauce, apple pie filling and apple butter.  All of it tastes great to me, though one of the kids says the apple sauce is too sweet.  Oh well.

    There have been a few projects I have done with the kids.  I need to take more pictures of them when they happen.  We decided to get out the clay and make fossils.  The kids really liked this one.  It was so easy to go around the house and find little animals for them to smash into clay.  After coming out of the oven they were hard and then they could take off playing with them.  My plan is to take them to the sandbox at the park and bury them so they can dig them back up.  I may even make a few new ones for them to find as a surprise!

door signs

Yesterday I noticed this on Heidi Swapp's blog.  It is a video of wall art and has ideas for things to do with the frames that she sells.  I looked online for a swirly frame and found this one.  Then I had to do something for the boy's room too.  The kids are happy about the signs on their doors.

exciting beginnings

Here are some beginnings of our garden.  We cheated this year by buying a large tomato plant from the nursery.  It was worth it because I got what I wanted.  I have tomatoes in June!  Almost everything else was planted from seed.  We had never tried planting peas before and I am so happy with the results.  Also, I found out that you can throw the pea greens in salad and eat them, who knew?

Sugar and spice

This banner was fun to make.  I sure do enjoy using an exacto knife.