Happy Valentines Day

Who knew you could make play dough out of Koolaid. I found this recipe on the internet and I think it is the coolest thing ever and my kids like it too. What I like about using koolaid is that it makes great colors and the playdough smells YUMMY. We decided to make some heart cutouts to take to Nick's daycare on v-day.


Day 36

Koolaid Playdough Recipe:

2 1/2 Cups of Flour

1/2 Cup of Salt

1 T. cream of tarter

2 pkgs. koolade

2 Cups of boiling water

3 T. of oil

Mix all dry ingredients together, mix wet ingredients together. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients until a ball is formed, let cool. Once cooled kneed, when playdough feels consistent it is ready.

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I thought J's teacher had a great idea when she decided to incorporate some learning into the kids v-day party. Since AZ became a state on valentines day she decideded her class would have a red, white, and blue valentines party. Jordan decided he wanted to give koolaid playdough to his friends at his vday party so we mixed up a batch. I found this cool website obamicon me and this is where we created his picture.

Of course I had to make some treats so little N could take to daycare. I found this idea out of a magazine. So this year I finally followed through with a valentines treasure hunt, it was really last minute. I had the boys look all over the house and yard for clues, they really had trouble finding the clue in the ice cream container and underneath the mail box, lol. They found their last clue in the storage shed, I got the older boys a cd (weird Al Yankavick and John Cena, it goes to show how different they are) and Nick got an etch a sketch.


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On Presidents day we took the boys snow tubing and we had such a good time. When we got there little N went down the hills all by himself. Trey confirmed that he is fearless, he wanted to go down all the big hills and I think he did. It was a good thing that Jordan's tube was a little flat this helped him go down the hills but at a little slower pace than Trey, whew!




Day 47

Yeah! Trey got a haircut

I finally convinced Trey to get a much needed haircut, I know the style is long but seriously this boy was on the verge of homeless looking, lol! I thought he would put up a bigger fight but once I showed him a picture of what I would like he gave in, whew! I know the picture is a little blurry these are the results of my camera phone and little N helping me take the picture.

Payson area trail system

Here is the trail map that we use when hiking around our little town. I just love that there are so many trails nearby that we can get to in under 5 minutes. I also love that hiking is a great activity that my family loves and we can do it together and it cost nothing. So Willie and I have decided we are going to get ready for Huffin and Puffin in the Pines, we are planning on doing the 8 mile run. I know it sounds a little crazy for us but we decided that this is something we both have always wanted to do. We are doing lots of research to figure how to train and all that good stuff, I'll have to keep posting on our progress.

So this is what we do when we are bored and waiting to pick up Trey, we take pictures with my phone. It actually is really entertaining and helps pass the time.

We made cupcakes for our little Super Bowl party! I used the whole bottle of red food coloring trying to get my frosting to turn red, Yikes. Good thing Jordan and Willie knew our players numbers because I had no clue. Unfortunately the Cardnials lost, but it was a good game.

Peach Orchard Trail

The boys found a hood to an old car and they thought it was the coolest thing. I told them if they could hike it out they could put it in their room, little did I know they would actually try it. Poor Nick he fell down so many times on this trail I don't know if he was tired or it was his shoes but it was the saddest thing. Of course Jordan brought his football. I was really suprised when his ball only got stuck once in a tree, but he did have to go looking for it a couple of times off the trail.

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day 26: Yippie, My sisters graduation day from beauty school.

day 25: Trey spent the weekend working on an extra credit project for his science class. That is the planet Uranus your looking at in the picture. The extra credit consisted of picking a planet to make a model of an giving a brief summary of that planet. Well of course Trey Picked Uranus!

day 23: Trey had his play tonight and he did an awesome job!!! O.k. I know I must be a bad mom when I didn't realize how big his part was, he was the wolf in a short play about red riding hood and her red cape. Trey and little red riding hood were the two main characters and they both did a great job.

day 21: This is what I found peeking out through the ground today!! Yep these are the tulips I planted in the fall.

day 20: We got a new hot water heater... we got a new hot water heater... we got a new hot water heater.... I just can't stop signing that song. Wow, you never really don't know what you have sometimes until its gone, and then you get it back and you realize this is how everyone else lives. Yippie, I love love love taking showers for as long as I want now or until Nick decides he is taking a shower with me.



day 17: There was a moment I know I saw it, if only it was for a few seconds there was a moment between these two brothers, ha ha. I think I actually I saw Trey care about his brother for a few seconds and I got it on film, lol.

While I was at the parks and rec. department I picked up an area map of the hiking trails around town, so with the map we decided to go for a hike on Saturday. Nick loved holding the map and telling us which direction to go.


day 14: I went to sign Jordan up for basketball at the parks and rec's department and we just couldn't leave without seeing the ducks and running up and down the hill and few hundred times, lol.

day 11: All I have to say is that Nick is the LUCKIEST little boy to have Willie for a dad. Super Nick, flying shoes, and hands that shoot juice, these are the words and games that Nick and Willie play together. I really have to sit back sometimes and watch these two play their games it is the cutest and funniest thing that I have ever seen.

day 10: Video games, endless amounts of quarters, and Pizza!! Every other weekend we try to take the kids out for lunch, this has been our new favorite placeDay 9: Yep, those are my running shoes!! As part of my new year's resolution I decided to get myself a gym membership. I really want to start making the most out of every day and so I thought if I wake up early go to the gym and then make breakfast for the kids this will help me accomplish alot. I am keeping my fingers crossed we will see how it goes!

day 7: I just love this picture of Nick's butt hanging out of his p.j.'s. I took this picture during a much needed haircut. I never really realized how red Nick's hair was until I saw all of his newly cut hair on my black chair, wow what a huge contrast!!

day 6: I found this amaryllis on clearence at wal-mart today and I thought it would be a fun project for the boys to help me plant it. I never really knew how easy it was to plant bulbs indoors. I thought I would give some paperwhites a try after I saw them in a magazine so I have them planted in clear containers all through the house and I can't wait to see how they do.
day 5: Yeah! The kids went back to school today. Actually, the 2 week Christmas break really flew by so fast.

Happy New Year

Project 365

I decided I would participate in this super cool idea for the new year. Here is my first picture, it was taken at my sisters new year's eve party. After we counted down the seconds to the new year I kissed my hubby and then I found this party hat, I thought it would be a great picture to start off my project.

We had so much fun at my sis's party the theme was famous couples, duos, or pairs. It took us forever to decided on our costumes. Our top three were Al & Peg Bundy (Married with children), Nacho Libre and the nun, Ricky Bobby and his wife (Talladega Nights). I had to have Melissa help us decide on our final choice, which was Nacho libre. I really can't believe my hubby wanted to be this, but we got tons of laughs at the party.

Willie could only wear the mask for the first 5 minutes, luckily I got him to put it back on so I could get a picture of him, of course the wig had to go on top of the mask. I guess I can't blame my hubby I could only wear my headpiece for a little while as well. Here's a picture of my sister and her hubby they went as Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningston from the move Anchorman. I think they pulled it off really well. I wished I would have gotten a picture of all the couples at the party, I missed Joe dirt and Brandy, Billy Madison and the pretty teacher, and Cher.

I loved Sonny Bono he was in full ski gear he had the ski boots, poles, helmet, goggles, and blood on his face. I really liked John McCain and Sara Palin, this guy went

all out he had his hair bleached that day and he had lines shaved into his hair so it would look like he had a receding hair line.

Day 2 in my project 365

Our dryer went out 2 days before Christmas (love that) so we ran to Sears and found this front loading washer and dryer set. The boys just love to sit in front of them and watch the washer and dryer do their magic, its better than t.v.

We made a quick trip to phoenix to let the boys spend some of their Christmas money. Willie dropped Nick and I off at Tempe market place and he took the boys to the mall. Nick just loved this cute little magnet set inside the dressing room at Old Navy.

Jordan's teacher gave him a pet rock for Christmas, so Jordan decided he needed to make a friend for his rock.