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Date with My Girl

New Pages!

My Man (sigh)

Zac is my hero! My car died when we were trying to take the kids swimming for FHE. The activity ended up OK (we got a ride and we still went, heck we were all ready why not?!) but my car was not so lucky. My alternator is dead. Anyway, my non-mechanic husband looked on the internet and figured out how to get my dead alternator out! I was so proud because we called around and this entire job cost $200.00, NOT including the price part, just the labor! Also, this is a 3-hour job for a mechanic, and Zac did it in a little longer I think, but close.
So anyway, he is going to put the new one in today which I am sure he'll do just as awesome! I just love that he can figure out how to do something that he has never done before, and gets it done right! What a guy!
By the way, I hate spending money on fixing cars. What a poopy thing to have to pay for :-(

Sledding!

After many days of having LOTS of snow we FINALLY took our kids sledding! I am so glad we did. I love sledding myself but our kids are usually too cold to fast to even go. But this year was so fun! We found the most perfect baby hill and the kids would even go by themselves. It was so cute. They giggled all the way down and they went over and over. This was an awesome day!

Nursery Stuff!

Ok so I have been working like CRAZY this week on stuff for nursery! One of my church goals this year was to redo my nursery stuff and make nursery better. So I am getting on it!

The ribbon wands are just to play with and also for music time. The kids hold on to the little ring and they whip their ribbons to the beat, like imagine "Follow the Prophet," "whip, whip; whip, whip, whip!" Might be a little advance for them but they will love it all the same (I hope)!

The stars I painted, added little faces, and put them on sticks. My kids in there LOVE "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and so now I have plenty of stars for them to hold. I also want to tach them "I Am Like a Star" since another part of my goal was to get their music more church related.

The rice shakers are mini M&M containers with rice inside and the lid glued on. This is also for music time so that they can shake to the beat. They will totally think this is the bomb.

And THEN...Zac help me make spiders! They are giant pom-poms with pipe cleaner legs and googly eyes. Zac found these metal "loop" things for me that he poked inside and wrapped around the pom-pom so that the little "eye" part is sticking out. So OK that was confusing. It just looks like the spider has a metal loop sticking out of it's back. Then, we threaded the "loop" and made a little leash so they can walk the spiders, dangle them, whatever they want to do. I am sure we will sing "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" a few times with these!

And I made a "check-in" apple tree. This is a big (20x30) poster and I took pictures of the kids that were at church last week and put their face on apples. When they get to nursery, they will check in by finding their apple and sticking it on the tree.

This will be so awesome. I am going to try it out tomorrow. I made a poster of all of them last year and they LOVE to see themselves so I think that this will be an even bigger hit.

What do you guys think? Are your kids going to LOVE me or what??!! I SO love them :-)

Look at My Baby!

Adam turned 2 on January 5th! I can't even believe it. Something about your youngest turning 2. Man. I was thinking that I was wanting another one awhile ago, but those feelings have went away. I guess I am waiting to see what happens with Zac's work and school and things.

Anyway, aren't these the cutest pictures ever?! He looks like such a little man! He was doing EVERYTHING the photographer wanted him too. I was really surprised. As soon as he was done he looked at me and said "ice cream?"

Ah yes. The ice cream promise! That's why he was being so good!

Man I love this boy! Happy Birthday Adam!

Here you go...

Ok so I have had a few people asking me about the method I've been using to teach Allivia to read. Here it is!

It's "Eye Q Phonics" and it's fabulous. We are not even all the way through the program but she is doing so much. She tries to read EVERYTHING on her own. The other day I had the milk on the counter and she came over and said "mmmm" "mmmmiiiii" trying to sound it all out. She got it eventually with a little help, but it was so cute.

Here is the link to their site:

EYE Q

Good luck everybody!