Jessie came over yesterday. Hilary made a neat seafood lasagna which reminded me of the cheesy seafood sauce that I had in Brazil a long time ago. It was incredibly yummy. Jessie brought over a blender and made us frozen fruit smoothies. They were also very yummy.

We ended up playing Winds of Plunder. Since it was our first time playing too, we ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my earlier post, Matt came over. He and Jakob had a very nice conversation about Matt's new Corgi. However when Matt told Jakob that the Corgi didn't have tail, Jakob was a little confused and replied quizzically, "It has a B-agina?" The B sound was, of course, Jakob's attempt at making a "V" sound.

Matt came over late night to run a D&D adventure. He had our characters already rolled up and he had a hand painted metal figure of mine and Hilary's character. Unlike the other roleplaying games I've played, we had a board for many of the encounters and each special power my character had was printed on a little card. So this roleplaying ( Read more... )

Yesterday, our Fourth of July festivities were spent at my sister's to also celebrate Brayden's first birthday with the whole family. The party/ cookout was beautiful. My sister had the whole house decorated in bright primary colors and Yo Gaba Gaba characters. The boys had little treat bags with water guns which later developed into a all-out kid ( Read more... )

Jessie came over for another game night. She brought the boys a LeapFrog CD and flashcards, a shape books, and a purple rubber ducky.

Bailey loves the ducky so much that we did a water activity the next day. Bailey would pour water in the different size bowls with a measuring spoons and cups while the ducky floated on the water. The next time we ( Read more... )

Bailey "Mommy, why you pee-pee in your bed?"

Me- "I didn't Bailey. I'm just washing the sheets."

Kids are so funny.

I started a blog for all my crafting stuff:  http://snipsansnails.blogspot.com/

I am still going to be on lj but I am just going to have a much more craft focused blog and I'll be able to follow all the other blogs I keep up with easier than using a folder full of 15 links.

If you'd like to keep up with my new products, handmadenews.org articles, and ( Read more... )

Today at church:

Me- "Don't put the rosary on your neck."

Jakob, swinging the beads- "It's a swing for Jesus. Ring around the Rosary."

http://bit.ly/GkbV0 Here is my interview with Lori Fogg, creator of the cutest little toddler size hand puppets.

This past week was spent at the beautiful Outer Banks area. We stayed at Avon in the cutest little two story circular house right off the beach. Jakob called the house the "lighthouse house" because it sort of looked like a house and we've been telling him for months that we're going to lighthouses when we go to the beach.

And we did see lighthouses ( Read more... )