Monday, April 11, 2011

Spring Snow

We got a few inches of snow this weekend, and I know I can't really complain because we have had a really mild winter and spring so far, but I am SO ready for some warm weather to stick around!! Dustin enjoyed the wet snow because he could make really good roads through it!
The kids made massive snow balls. They didn't want to make a snowman...just wanted to see how big of a snowball they could make!




Making big snowballs is hard work ;-)

Building a Volcano

For Christmas this year, the kids got a build your own volcano kit that we've been saving for a rainy (snowy) day, so this weekend we dug it out of the closet and built a volcano!! It had a mold that we poured the plaster into...
Once it dried, we took it out of the mold...
A little paint...
The finished product....

Big Heart...Big Flowers

The other day at Girl Scouts, the girls made tissue paper flowers and by the end of the meeting there were flowers laying all over the place. One little girl was determined that the flower Riley made, was hers. This girl had a complete break down because she KNEW that was her flower and not Riley's. When Riley saw how upset this little girl was getting, she decided to just let her friend have her flower. In the car on the way home, she told me that she knew that was her flower, but she didn't like seeing her friend upset and that she could make more! That made me feel so good that we had to stop at Walmart before heading home to get the materials to make more flowers! Not only did she make another one, but we made about 10 more!! I have beautiful paper flower bouquets all oer my house!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Our day at the calving barn

Dustin taking a quick break from cleaning stalls to give me a smile...
I thought I would put a picture in of Cater Mountain from the other side. From my house it looks like a single little mountain, but really it is a fairly large mountain range...

Daddy's girl








After all the chores were done, we played a fun game of hide and seek. Inside the barn due to the wind!!


Going to bring the cows in for the night...

Friday, January 28, 2011

You might be a Redneck if....

Dustin is all about camouflage these days and wanted to paint him bike camo. Santa had the brilliant idea of providing the boy with a roll of camouflage duct tape!! I have to say, the tape was much less messier then the paint could of been ;)




The Sky is on Fire......

I thought that the sunset was pretty the other night. The kids said it looked liked there was a fire in the sky and full of smoke!




Monday, December 27, 2010

Christmas Goodies

This year the kids decided that they wanted to make cookies and carmel corn, so we had 1 day full of baking....
They also wanted to make gingerbread houses. Here are the final results....