Category Archives: Holidays & Occasions

Brave Movie Party – Princess Merida & Friends – Scottish Themed Birthday

My little girl turned 8. That’s a big thing in our household 🙂  Being 8 is Great!! 🙂 We originally planned on not having a party. Because she would be Baptized this year. However we had to postpone it for family reasons and it will be in a few months. So we had to do…

Fun classes for your kidlets this summer

This summer my kidlets have enjoyed taking Wilton Cake Decorating Classes from Jo-Ann’s Crafts. Their 1st class was on a round cake- butter cream. Making and learning how to do a cupcake on the top of their cakes and decorations. They had a wonderful time. And they were SOO PROUD!! 2nd class- my kidlets took…

Lots of learning fun with the new Vtech Switch & Go Dinos

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of VTechKids. All opinions are 100% mine. My 3 yr old nephew got 2 of the new Switch & Go Dino’s by Vtech. Horns the Triceratops and Sliver the T-Rex He was so intrigued by them. We couldn’t get them out of the packaging fast…

Easy Wedding Hairstyle / Formal & Quick for Girls

We went to a Wedding this week. I was ill prepared with what to do with my daughters thick mane of hair she has. The wedding was on the beach here in FL and we were in the temperatures of 90 + I had a rubber band, 1 flower clip and a brush. That was…

More great summer projects to try out with your kids.

We are totally taking advantage and topping by quite a few times this week to Jo-Ann’s Fabrics and Crafts store. This week they have 50% and 40% off coupons on their Iphone app. I decided that this will be the summer my daughter and son (If he is not too busy with scouting/camping) To try…

We gotta keep cool this Summer too!

This is Ginger one of our 5 hens 🙂  We have to think more than just US this summer to keep cool. Nothing like COLD watermelon on a hot Florida summer day! This sweet gal is Katie. (My daughter named her) The hens even enjoy eating the rinds from the watermelon. YUM? This is our…

Night Light / Stain Glass Look Kids Project

Being room mom again this year has been so much fun. We were having our end of the year party. I needed a few crafts for the party. We were having a Pizza & Pajama Party. We played a few fun games and did 2 crafts.  This was my favorite craft. My girlfriend a while…

Class Gift – Teacher Appreciation

This was a very easy gift to make. We collected money from parents to purchase a gift card to the teachers favorite restaurant. 🙂 Green bucket came from the 1.00 section of Target Floral Foam Kraft Paper Shreds from Dollar Tree Wood Skewers Favorite Gift Card Flowers were cut out on the silhouette. Green Gift…

Our Teacher Appreciation Week 2012

Gable boxes found at Michael’s. Cut out apples on my silhouette machine. Filled it with candy. That happen to be buy 1 get 1 free at Publix.  The tag says “Teachers can’t live by apples alone, she needs chocolate too!” To play off the cliché of teachers and apples. 🙂  This is what we gave…

April 2012 LDS General Conference- Kids Party

I am behind posting this. However we did conference with our kids along with another family. So really in total we just had 4. Ranging in ages 3-12.  We haven’t ever really had our kiddos watch conference and we want to change that. So we decided to have a conference party. That got the younger…

Easter Peeps on a stick- Great edible centerpiece

I am still catching up on my blog. I have so many things to post. Since we have moved we have been working on alot of projects 🙂 I apologize. I will catch up one day I know 🙂 I had purchased some cute Easter Bunny Peeps and wanted to use them as a center…

Earth Day – April 22nd

Earth Day is coming up April 22nd 🙂   I love this holiday just as well. I feel like lately we have been working on Earth friendly things around our home. Starting a compost pile , chicken coop and raising for our own eggs, being more aware of recycling etc. We will be starting our garden…

Easter Carrot gift – great for kids

These carrots I put on the kids table were so easy. I found the triangle bags 25 of them for 1.99 at Hobby Lobby Got a huge bucket of cheese balls at target for 4.99 (I was able to make 25 carrots and have a few cheese balls left) Green curling ribbon I also used…

Paper Plate Baskets with Paper Tape aka Washi Tape

These cute paper plate baskets were so much fun!  Extremely easy. I got the idea from – Sarah Hearts   Check out her site. Because she has a WONDERFUL video. You don’t want to miss that video it explained exactly the HOW TO MAKE this basket. All I used for this I got at Target Paper…

Easter Treats – Some Bunny Special

I gave each person that came to our Easter dinner one of these treats. I even gave them away to my Visiting Teaching sisters at church 🙂 I simply printed my own pink gingham paper on card stock. Used my silhouette to cut out a bunny and the outside  rectangle. Folded in half. Used a…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us »