Best Daddy Ever!

This is a day late but I still wanted to post it.

I married such an amazing man.

He is so loving

Sweet beyond words

Super hunky

and my best friend.

But not only is he wonderful to me

He is the best Father any Mother could possibly ask for and I am so thankful to have him in my life and in my kids lives.

For Father's Day I took some pictures of our 3 little monkeys with one of their best friends.

Their Daddy

Fast Father's Day Gift

Ok so I know that I get a big giant 

FAIL

for my blogging lately.  

Seriously I don't know what's up with me but I have had zero motivation to blog

and barely any to do anything at all.

I'm going to try and snap out of it though.

To make up for my major slacking I'm going to show you an awesome Father's Day gift.

At least my Husband thinks it's awesome.

I made these for all the guys in our families lives for Christmas and it was a big hit.

Root Beer Sampler Pack

This gift works best if you have more than one person to give one to because it will make 4 packs.

For Christmas I made 6 packs and gave one to Reed, my Dad, his Dad, my Grandpa, and my Brothers.

I found that Meijer had the best selection of glass bottle sodas.  

Actually they have a huge selection.

And lots of flavors besides Root Beer.

Just buy 4 different packs of Soda (some will be 4 packs and some will be 6)

Mix them up so there is one of each kind in the pack.

And enjoy any leftovers :)

FYI Henry Weinhard's is a must!

Creamy goodness at it's best.

Hope you have a beautiful day and I will REALLY try to be back soon!

Funny Funny Boy

I know I have been REALLY absent lately.

We have been trying to soak in as much of this sunshine we're getting as we can.

Mason has been falling asleep in his exersaucer every day this week and I finally caught him in action.

It is hilarious!

Bringing Back Memories

Well it has rained 

and rained

oh and then it rained some more. 

We spent some time in what we like to call our troll closet.

That's our tornado spot.  Luckily it's close to our books so we had something fun to do.

But then for a whole 5 minutes the sun came out.

And I was able to stare in complete happiness at this.

 It was a FULL rainbow!

Actually a double but the second one was so light it didn't even show up in pictures.

But a couple days ago when we actually had half a day of sun we worked on our motor skills.

Always a good thing to work on.

When I was younger and we would go to visit my grandparents my grandpa would sometimes get out blocks of wood, hammers and nails and light us up.

And we would look something like this.

Who knew hitting a nail could be so much fun????

Well I did because it's one of the things I remember from my childhood.

(I remember surprisingly little about my childhood)

If your kids are younger or get frustrated easily

You might want to start the nails for them.

It might save you a lot of crying.

And a few other tips.

Smaller hammers are easier for smaller hands and

the softer the wood the better.

Braeden loves hammering into the stump and the nails go in really easy.

I'm gonna have to see if I can find any pictures of me doing this.

Pretzel Art

Whew has life been crazy lately.

Braeden's out of school

Baseball and Soccer are in full swing

and Mason decided to start crawling and pulling himself to stand in the same day!

I really should have babyproofed ahead of time.

But today we are trying to get into a new summer routine.

I'm going to try and do some kind of craft with the kids every day.

This craft is also a snack so awesome double duty!

I started by making pretzel dough in the bread maker.

But then I left the room to put Mason in bed

and came back to this...

So tip number one would be to not leave the flour on the table! lol

So after we had our pretzel dough ready we rolled it out into strips.

And then I let the kids get creative making the pretzels into any shape they wanted.

We ended up with snakes and flowers and balls and butterflies and so much more!

 They actually asked to make more dough when we finally ran out.

Now that's success.

Just brush with egg whites and water and sprinkle with kosher salt.

Bake then enjoy.

Our New Pet

I love to watch my kids exploring things.

You know, when you can see the little wheels turning 

and the excitement when they find something new.

Well today my kids found a new pet.

Meet Caddy

Yeah he's kind of tiny.

I'm really not sure how Braeden found him 

but he did and they were best friends from the second they met.

He found him a leaf to camouflage him.

And a leaf for him to eat.

He's not in that picture so don't try to find him!

But I think he camouflaged him a little to well because he lost him.

Which was traumatic for about 2 minutes.

And then he was drawing pictures of birds.

Oh to be a child again.

Takin' Craft Time Outside

We have finally had a few nice days around here.

Sunny and Hot

A perfect turnaround from the gloominess we've had.

When it's nice outside my kids play ALL day.

I can hardly get them to come inside to eat or even pee.

So to throw off their routine a little bit I surprised them with a craft to do at their picnic table.

So what's the perfect craft to do outside?

Nature Collages

I gave them a basket to collect all their pieces of nature.

 Then they sat down at the table and glued them on cardstock.

 Even Mason explored Nature trying to eat the grass. lol

Super easy and cheap supplies.

Just make sure you let them know of any flowers you want off limits.

You don't want them picking all your pretty flowers.

Hope the weathers nice where you are so you can take craft time outside!