When are you due?

Can I just say I HATE HATE HATE THIS QUESTION!!! I have been asked this question time and time again. I thought after loosing 50lbs that this question would assist. But NO- in the last two months I have been asked 3 times!!! I think all these people could have been asking for other reason other than the size of my belly (which I do still have a little pooch) but STILL that question is SO SO SO hurtful and discouraging especially after loosing all that weight. Brian Reagan my favorite comedian has a joke about this very thing and I wanted to share it in hopes to spread "the rule"... "the rule for this is to not guess at this EVER EVER EVER EVER....." to see the joke go (Here)

Coloring Noodles

John has been So Bored not having school, his mom recovering from surgery, and this morning Taylor woke up sick-so all the fun out door activities planned went out the door for today. What to do... what to do... John and I went searching online for some ideas... This is what we found:

Coloring Noodles- I found this on my freinds blog.
John coloring the noodles - you simply put some noodles in a ziplock bag add some rubbing alchol (1-tsp) and add food coloring of your choice and mix:



Noodles Drying:




All our noodles mixed together- aren't they so colorful!!


John creating his master piece:(We just used elmer's glue to glue onto some paper)



Taylor creating his master piece:



My Master Piece:

Father's Day Gifts

My sister Telsha came up to visit today to make Father's Day crafts. We met at Walmart to pick up our supplies- this was an adventure with four kids. Telsha had them all in her cart and I had one with the supplies. She had many people stop and ask her if they were all hers- one lady was suprised they weren't becuase "they all have the same eyes". Anywho we found a bunch of random Fathers Day Crafts online and put five together for a Super Fantastic Father's Day Basket (which better be greatly appreciated- after all the work!).

Here is each of our projects that made up these fantastic baskets:

Cream Soda Bottles with cool labels:



Yummy Symphony bars covered in cute Father's Day wrapping:



Pop-Top Cans (We took the bottoms off and put in a gift card/check and confetti):




Coca-Cola Bottles full of Candy- you would be amazed how much candy they hold!!





Frames with a Father's Day Poem:

Our Final Product:

Teona's for Wayne-


Telsha's for Jeff-

Creating a Music Video

Our neighbor brought us an invitation for their annual film festival and potluck. They want each family to make a 3-4 min. video to share that night. Wayne doesn't have much time between work, school, and his church calling so I came up with a puppet music video show,featuring the song-"Old McDonald Had a Farm"- where me and the boys could get all the props ready and then film when he was home. It was SO MUCH FUN! Granted the boys after only one take decided they were done- during that take you could see Taylor's entire face and at the end John knocked over half of the backdrop- Very Very entertaining and funny. No perfection made in this family. We will probably win worse made film- but it was still fun. I don't know how to get the film online but once I figure it out- probably after the festival, so we have it can debut there, I will share this video with you.

Here are some photos of all the fun:

John and Taylor painting puppets (They are both wearing old shirts of mine to cover their clothes)


John and Taylor glueing the puppets:
Our adorable Puppets:
Presenting- Old McDonald Had A Farm: (drum roll please)

Free Fishing Day

Last Saturday was Free Fishing day so we thought we would take advantage of it and take the boys. The Lay Hill pond was holding an activity for kids- they gave out free t-shirts, bait, borrowed out polls, and had free drawings for prizes. We had so much fun. The fish were biting like crazy- alot got away before we could real them in but it was still alot of fun. Like this one they caught it and it jumped all over the place and then got away.



Here are some more pictures from the day:

The boys fishing:



Our Catches of the day:

Taylor's- (it's laying on the rocks- I couldn't get him to hold it up):


John's and Wayne's:


Teona's: