Thank you again "Family Fun"

I am not so good at coming up with ideas on my own, which is why I'm so glad there are tons of blogs etc out there to help me out. I found another fun idea in Family Fun magazine I thought I'd share. We made paper pizza! We just used old paper bags and then cut out paper toppings. Ta-Da! Mr. M here made an individualized piece for everyone in his family, and then we transformed an old graham cracker box into a pizza box! Fun, no cost activity. Just my style.



Another low cost activity? Sidewalk chalk! Miles even got in on the action. I'm happy to report that I'm still proficient in hop-scotch.


Here's a shot of "my" boys chillin on the couch. We do have some Movie time during the day to give me a break. :)


Here's a shot of my boys for real. Fabulous Sunday mornings. Sleep in, Richie makes breakfast... so good. This last hair cut, Richie told me to go short. Do you think I succeeded? Can I get a "Hoorah"!?

Best Craft EVER!!!

I found this idea for a wreath while I was doing some blog-stalking and when I realized how easy it was, I knew it had to do it. It cost me all of $0 and I did it in about 1.5 hours while watching THE BIGGEST LOSER last night. Go Sam and Koli!! There are tutorials for all sorts of different kinds on the internet, but for mine, I just cut a wreath shape out of an old cardboard box. Then I got an old book we had (sorry "Encyclopedia of World Religions" I just knew I would never sit down and read you) and tore a bunch of pages out, and cut them in half horizontally. Then I squished them into little poofs, for lack of a better word and hot glued them to the card board! After that, I took a lighter to the edges of some paper to make it stand out a bit more. All I need to do know is hot glue some ribbon on the back, and hang it! I would show you that picture, but for now, that wall is just white, so it doesn't stand out like I would like it to. Eventually, I'm going to paint our room green! yahoo!


We also (in no particular order) attended our good friend Megan's birthday party, played at the park, got sick, and Miles picked up piano playing with his rear. Such a talented little boy.

I TOLD you I was addicted!

We finally finished re-doing our kitchen chairs! I don't think I could be more pleased. Now I won't worry that someone will sit on a screw when they take a rest, or be grossed out when they have to sit on the chair with the mysterious black goo stain. I won't throw a fit when Miles tried to climb on them and puts his face right in the fabric EWWWW!!! And best of all, they look cute. :) They cost us next to nothing since they were here when we moved in, my mom-in-law bought be the cute fabric as an early bday present, and I used some of our left over paint and a neighbors left over paint. The only thing I had to buy was some ribbon to put on the bottom of the backs to cover some unsightly staples. I'd venture to say I'm proficient with a staple gun now. I swear I took a BEFORE shot! I can't find it on my camera anywhere! So you'll just have to believe me that these chairs were pretty nastified. But here's the glorious after!




So here's our semi-redone kitchen nook area thingy. There should also be our wedding picture under the "Families are Forever" sign, but it fell off the wall the other day and shattered. Sad. I hope we can fix it. See those little orange bowls sitting on the table? Here look closer.

I found these little yellow and orange bowls and plates at Wal-Mart yesterday. I'm still on a high about them. Why don't you try and guess how much they cost? If you guessed at low at .25 then you are right! If they're not all gone, I'm totally going back today to buy the rest. Perfect little bday or wedding gift. Just throw in some ice cream toppings and a cute bow and ta-da!

Meet the Marble Run and Mr. M

I'm babysitting for a friend of mine, the fabulous gal who is helping me do all these fun things to furniture, so I watch her 2 little ones on MWF. The smallest one is about 8 months, and Mr. M here is 4. If you're looking for something to do and you're stuck inside because it's April and it's still snowing outside (most ridiculous thing in the world says the girl from sunny St. George) you can create a marble run! I found it in Family Fun magazine. You're supposed to use magnets to hold the paper towel tubes to the fridge, but mine didn't work so we just used tape. He thought it was pretty awesome. Yes! I win for being a good babysitter!!

We didn't really post about Easter,

so in case you're wondering, we had a wonderful Easter. Miles was lucky enough to have 3 Easter Egg hunts! One with the Garners, one with the Fogle's in our ward, and one with our friends the Mitchell's from our old ward! He didn't really get it, but he loved eating the candy!

He has this fetish lately of climbing into small spaces. This is the only good picture I've got so far, but just in the past day he's climbed into a cupboard in the kitchen, the storage space under the TV the houses our DVD's, the cupboard in our bathroom under the sink, and the pan drawer thingy under the oven. Crazy boy. He's also really starting to understand and enjoy coloring! YES!! And he "helped" me make cookies yesterday. Such a busy boy.



I haven't posted much lately because I'm working on another project! The same gal from my ward who helped teach me to paint furniture also showed me how I could recover the chairs in our kitchen! It's turned into quite the ordeal, but they should be lovely once I get them finished this week. I'll post more pictures later!

The Woodside swing team had their final performance of the semester last week, so I thought I'd post a bit. If you can't tell, Richie's the ham in the front in the black sailor suit. :) Allow me to brag a bit, Richie choreographed this dance and coached all the dancers. And this was just one of about 5 or so dances that he's choreographed in the last couple semesters! I wish I could have gotten a better video. It may not look like much, but their feet are flyin. This is a fast song, even for Charleston!