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:

Crafting - I love copying others great ideas!!

Craft Number One:

My girlfriend posted on her blog a GREAT IDEA to take old clear glass flower vases and spray paint them. I just bought this new dresser for my hallway and needed something to decorate it with so I decided to try out her idea and see what I could come up with. Went to the Thrift store and found this large vase that I thought would be perfect. After an hour of looking at spray paints the boys convinced me purple was what we needed to go for. (I do not exagerate when I say that I spent a LONG time looking at spray paint- there was a guy that came up to me and asked me "if I was still looking" -nice huh)Here are my photos- I totally forgot to take a picture before I started but I got one right after my first spray. The flowers came from Kelsi's wedding.








Craft Number Two:

The same crafty girlfriend had another fab. idea that I just had to try. Pringle can bracelets!! You take an empty Pringle can cut it into 1-2 inch strips. Then paper mache them to add strength. Cover with fabric or ribbon- or whatever the heck you want to! Here are what I came up with- the blue and yellow were the ones she made. So much fun! Thanks Erin for all the Great Ideas!!!

My Lucky Charm

I found this idea on thedatingdivas.com! I love this website it has so many fun ideas on how to keep dating your hubby! They suggested that even though St. patricks day isn't a Holiday for gifts-why not make it one! So I bought some green things around the store and some Lucky charms! Wayne has been working nights 6pm-6am. It has been pretty hard for him. I hope him coming home and finding this basket on the table will help him have a great St. Patty's day!

Happy St.Pattys Day to you too!

Clarissa's Mission Call!

Wayne's little sister recieved her mission call yesterday. We took a quick trip to Enterprise last night to be part of her opening it. She will be serving in the San Antonio, Texas Mission. She will be English speaking but we are all pretty sure she will get to use what Spanish she does know while she is there. She leaves on June 15th. She is really excited as are the rest of us. Congrats Clarissa!!

Taylor's Candy Land Birthday Party!

Taylor requested for his 3rd birthday a Candy party so this is what I came up with:

Invitations were lolipops:



The games we played were:
1-Tape the gumball in the Gumball Machine.



2-How many candies are in the jar?


3- Candy Bingo.


Taylor wanted green cupcakes with m&m's on them:



My favors for coming to the party- let them know how "sweet" they were for coming.

We all had alot of fun!


John really had fun so maybe we will do it again for his birthday in August...but you know kids they liked to change their minds so often you never know what is coming next!

Kids say the darndest things!

So last Friday was SUPER (wink wink) fun. I had been working on my sharing time most of the day for Primary and the kids and I were getting pretty restless so I decided to try and get a few errands done before my Chiropractic apt. In Primary we started a new thing that if the kids bring their scriptures than they get to add a penny to the jar and when it is full we give it the Bishop to go towards Book of Mormon fund- anywho John was way excited about this and wanted to bring scriptures to church with him. So we went to DI to see if they had a scripture case and some scriptures. We found a really cute case for him there but didn't have any decent scriptures so we decided to check at Deseret Book (now that I think about it the Distribution Center was next door to DI so this whole upcoming fiasco could have been avoided by just going there) anywho! So while at DI Taylor was really upset that he didn't get to get anything and let me and the rest of the store know- that was just warm up I guess. When we got to Deseret Book we went to look at the scriptures and Taylor decided he wanted to read the scriptures to so he grabbed a set and started thumbing through. Well most of the books Taylor looks at get ripped so I told him he couldn't look at the scriptures right now took them away and put them back and he starts throwing a fit!! Not just a little one either- he starts sreaming at me "I Want To Read The Scriptures!!" So how do you react? Totally not okay for him to act like this at the store but you don't want to encourage him not to read the scriptures either!! Love kids!!! So after we got out of that store. I had my apt. They have a little play room for kids where my kids were playing while I was in the waiting room. All of a sudden you hear them start to fight - John yells "I Am A Child Of GOD!! and Taylor then replies "I AM A CHILD OF GODD TOO JOHN!! lovely huh! I am so glad they know they are children of God but really?? My doctor came in right after that laughing and say that had just made her day (so guessing everyone heard wasn't too off) - she gave me hug knowing what it is like to be a mom :). Man oh man...Kids say the darndest things!!

February's Atempts...

This month I found some cute ideas online and just had to try them out. Well I would say that I didn't quiet do as cute of a job but they all worked out pretty well, I was going to post the comparision pictures but was struggling to find them again online.

First I found this new website and it had this yummy valentines smore recipe so I had to try it. You buy the heart marshmallows put on grahmn cracker crust and dip in chocolate- sounds pretty easy huh! That is what I thought too. Well it wasn't easy so I did the best I could with what paitence I had. Everyone that had one said they tasted really good so that is all that matters right. :)


I found this cute idea in "Parent" magazine and thought it would be fun for John and I to do together for Valentines cards. You take alphabet building blocks and spell out a word and color over with a crayon. They turned out way cute and John had alot of fun with this too.


The next one I had to try was a baby sling for my niece. My friend made one and posted a picture and the directions online. Again it sounded really easy but when it came down to it I had to go over to her house and have her explain it to me. I think mine turned out really cute.


Telsha my sister came up before valentines and found this really cute idea on The Dating Divas web site to make for our boys for valentines. They too turned out really cute and were not too hard to make thanks to the website that had done all the work for us. :). By the way if you have not checked out this website I would highly recommend it~