Weekend Fun....

We had a very busy weekend with weddings and skating and birthday parties. Friday evening we went to Tiffani and Kenny's wedding in Statesboro. Tiffani is the daughter of Joe's cousin Dana. We have seen Dana's parents since we've been here, but we haven't seen any of the rest of his family so we thought it would be good for us to go. The wedding was short and sweet and the kids had a GREAT time playing outside after the wedding. There was a pond, and pine cones and trees to climb in. Molly even found the bubbles to blow. There was also lots of cake to be eaten and poor miss Molly ate too much! Now we know to really listen to her when she says her belly hurts!



Saturday was filled with a Girl Scouts skating party, a birthday party for a friend of Caroline's and a birthday party for a friend of Nicholas'.... it was go, go, go......


Nicholas' party was at Build a Bear... at first I really thought it was going to be a struggle for him because when he was told what his choices would be he was not happy! Thankfully, once the rest of the little boys picked out their bears, Nicholas was more than happy to follow along with the rest of the group and make a choice without complaining.. Below is the bear he picked. He named him "Batman" as he was hoping to buy the batman costume for him. He picked out a race car driver's outfit instead... Today he asked me if I would make him some PJ's for Batman.. this is what i came up with since I didn't have a pattern...

And since I was making clothes for him, Caroline asked me to make a dress for her doll, Abby. I still need to hem the bottom and it needs a little touch up here and there, but not bad again for not having a pattern and for my first time :) I really am enjoying my sewing machine and getting creative. Sadly it is a little time consuming... aaahhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

update to crafty...

Here's Caroline in her dress... she wore it to school on Friday but I forgot the "spaghetti strap rule" and even though she had a tank top on underneath she still had to keep her sweater on all day... oops!!!!!

Getting Crafty....

A friend of ours gave Nicholas some Steeler pants and Molly this cute little outfit... both of which she made.... it got me really anxious to get my sewing machine working and to start getting a little crafty.....

And since I was thinking along the lines of being crafty... I made play-doh. SO SIMPLE!! What have I been thinking all these years. The kids really wanted to play and I knew it would keep them happy for a while, but all the play-doh we had was dried up.... uh-oh! So I looked up a recipe (gotta love google!) and whipped up a batch of pink and blue play-doh!!!

Barb came over last week and this was my first attempt at making something wearable. I was originally making this for Molly, but it didn't quiet fit right. It fits better on Caroline but it's too short to be just a dress. She loved wearing it and even wanted to wear it again the next day...

My first attempt at making matching dresses for the girls. We have a wedding to go to and I was really wanting to finish these just in case I wanted the girls to wear them.... still not sure if they will wear them or not, but the didn't turn out too bad. . Molly wasn't very happy when she tried hers on....

This is Caroline's. She was asleep when I finished it, so I don't have pictures of her in it yet. I'm looking forward to finding some more fun fabric for sun dresses for the girls...

St. Patrick's Day

We got in the Irish spirit around the house today. The kids had so much fun dressing in green and enjoying lots of green food :)

Caroline was eating a green pancake on her way out the door to catch the bus....


Nicholas had a big parade at school. It was a total sea of green. His class had on leprachaun hats and beards.. so cute!


While we were gone the little leprachauns came and made a mess at our house!


And left us some treats behind!

And for dinner we had Shepard's Pie... mmmmm :)

Family Fun...

We went down to the Savannah River today and walked along the canal. Caroline figured out how to ride her bike yesterday without training wheels. It was awesome to see her pedaling along the path! GO CAROLINE!!!

Cloverleaf Duathalon

Yesterday morning we got up bright and early and went to do a race. The local YMCA had their 2nd annual Cloverleaf Duathalon. It was a 2 mile run, 10 mile bike, 2 mile run. Niether Joe, nor I had really been doing any training for this race, but thought it would be fun to do something athletic together. I had been running on the treadmill and doing spinning classes a couple times a week, but it has been 6 years + since I have actually riden more than a few minutes on my bike. We were able to drop the kids off at the Y and go to the race without worrying about them. (They had a blast!) The weather cooperated and I think we finished the race in under 1:30. It will hopefully be the first of many events for us to come :)

Getting the gear ready....


Finishing the first 2 miles....


Just finished the bike.... my legs felt like JELLO!


And crossing the final finish line! I was SO happy to be done!!!

Even though it was hard, it sure was fun!!!!

yummy!!!

The yummiest package arrived from Grandpa Paul... We received a little early Easter surprise filled with Oranges, Grapefruits, Pecans and three amazing granny smith apples covered in caramel and then dipped in white chocolate... YUM!!!! We of course could not hold back till Easter and have enjoyed every single bite!!













Good luck biting into that Caroline! If she could have gotten her mouth around it, I'm sure she would have :)



Goofballs!!!!

THANK YOU PAUL!!! It was a delicious surprise!!!!!

Nana's visit

Here's just a few more pictures from Nana's visit. We had a tea party all set up for Caroline and the kids one day when she came home from school. All the kids thought it was fun to sit and have snacks with Caroline's fancy tea cups.

We collected a bunch of shells while we were at the beach and got some stuff to make garden bricks. Caroline and Nicholas always enjoy doing "projects" with Nana. This is one they will hopefully be able to remember for a long time.

Caroline had a fun competition at school. Each of the kids got a paper duck to decorate and then each class voted for their favorite from their class. Then the winner of the class got to decorate a 3-d duck to have voted on in the whole school. Caroline chose "Fancy Nancy" for her duck and she won for her class. Nana and I had fun trying to help her decorate. She pretty much told us where she wanted things and we went crazy with the hot glue gun. Quite the project for a kindergartner to take on, and only reminds me that this is just the beginning!!! AAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!