New website!!!

Hello All!!!  I just wanted to let you know that I've started another blog to house all my crafts, cakes, and other gift type ideas.  It was cluttering up our family blog, so I thought I'd give it a new place to stay!  I actually transferred all of the craft and cake posts I had on this blog to that one...so if you are looking for an old post and it's not here, it's there!  If you want to visit the site, here is the address.

http://stayathomemomcrafts.blogspot.com

Halloween in April

The boys have been paying a lot of Star Wars lately and asked if they could get out the costumes they had. So they played a little dress up and ran around getting the good guys.

Wooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!!!

Oh yeah...school is offically done this semester and I have the whole summer off!!!  I kicked it off with an early morning run, some gardening, and a little bit of vinyl cutting.  (And just a tinsy bit of cleaning.)  I have a feeling I'm really gonna like this summer! 

At the Beach

Yes, Chase is eating sand here.  I thought it was hilarious to see him reach down, grab a handful and shove it in his mouth.  And apparently it tasted all right, cuz he kept doing it long enough for me to get the camera out and take a few pics.

J.J. found a shell that he wanted to take home.  He found another one too, but when Jaren told him that it was broken, it lost its magic and he threw it to the ground.  I guess Jar's perfectionist attitude got passed down a generation.
Here's our beautiful drip castle.  I am so happy that I got to teach my boy how to do it.  This is an art that comes after numerous years of time intensive labor.  LOL.  Ok, not.  J.J. caught on really fast and we spend most of our time on the beach working on it and having a lot of fun together.

Well, there they are, the pictures of the beach when we went down to California.  This was definitely my favorite part about going down there.  Yes, I thought it was even better than Disneyland (what can I say, I'm a cheap date).  We had so much fun being back together again with my family and enjoying our favorite pasttime...well one of them, anyway.  We played smashball (thanks Melanie!), frisbee, and built sandcastles (thanks Melanie!).  It was a great, great day!  I've got some fun pictures of the rest of the family too.  I'll post a link to the slideshow when I get to it.

Star Wars + Disneyland = FUN!!!

This was a really cute little Jedi Training Camp at Disneyland. We were really bummed when all the little boys by J.J. got picked to go up and J.J. didn't. But we were ok. Besides, if he had gone up, Darth Maul wouldn't have come by to scare him and take that great picture at the top! When he came over, Ryan screamed bloody murder and ran behind me, hugging my legs. He begged to get up. So after the picture, I put down the camera and stuck him in my lap. Darth Maul was really good at what he did...scaring people. He even startled my mom! We had a lot of fun that day. I might post some more pictures later...and I want to post pictures of going to the beach too, but the pics are on my parents camera. I'll get them some time though! It was so fun!

Catching St. Patty

I got inundated to this family tradition last year when Jaren's mom came down for Chase's birth. I love it...it's so cute. We decorate a box and set up a trap to catch St. Patty when he comes to our house that night. We make sure to leave some type of treat to entice him into the box. Then when he tries to eat it, he pulls on the string, which makes the stick fall down, thus trapping him. When the boys wake up in the morning, they "peek" while slowly lifting the box to make sure he can't get out before we see him. Unfortunately, we didn't catch him this year, but he left us chocolate coins, a mini chess set for J.J. (which he LOVES), a sticker and coloring book for Ryan and some bubbles for Chase, plus a lot of green dust and a note taunting us. We had lots of fun doing it for FHE on Monday night. Plus we went and got ice cream at the creamery...YUM!

JJ's answers to some very important questions

Why did God make moms?
So that they could have babies

What ingredients are moms made of?
Blood and nothing else

What kind of a little girl was your mom?
Melinda Armstrong

What did your mom need to know about your dad before she married him?
I don’t know. I’m trying to think but I can’t think. They tried to look for a perfect man.

Why did your mom marry your dad?
I don’t know. Because she like him.

Who’s the boss at your house?
Dad. Because he yells at me and stuff.

What makes moms and dads different?
I don’t know. Because they look the same but they, but they, but, but they have different faces. Even one's a girl and one's a man. That’s the difference of moms and dads.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
Take a sleep. Go to sleep.

What would make your mom perfect?
Umm, umm, umm, umm, that they wear dresses. That’s what makes them so perfect, that’s what.

If you could change one thing about your mom, what would it be?
Put makeup on her lips.