February Break

At our house Elijah gets a whole week off! A whole week, that we get to decide our schedule's..and what we do when, i don't have to plan my day around numerous people in my home..suffice to say, we are a lil excited. I thought we had therapy still this week, but last minute the county changed their mind. So I planned some activity's out with the littles to really enjoy the time we have :) Our activity today has worked great..its kept the kids busy, and supper is all prepped and my dishes are all washed and i was able to write this post ;) I have this tagged to do for months on pinterest, and man, i wished i did it sooner...all 3 of my kids really enjoyed it! we built little city's along side the tract with their toys (bat house, little people zoo, and a fire station) all it took was masking tape and a little crawling around on the floor. Julia's reaction "mommy, this is so strange" lol, yes dear..mommy typically doesn't masking tape the carpet, but hey..go have fun!

I was surprised even ty had fun with it!

Elijah stab at a funny face

Perfect for all 3 kids

PS: no., sticky residue from the tape at all..i did buy name brand tho just in case.
Link to my pinterest..i cant find the website it came from :*(

Sew Pinteresting!

I thought i would show you my finished project I got off of pintrist the other day. With summer coming i have been keeping my eyes open for summer clothes for my Juia. Which is always a real hard find for me. I don't understand  the attraction of dressing your 5 year old like a hooker, but whatever...anyway this was a quick easy project for me...origionally i was not gonna put the hearts on, but my sewing machine litterally ate a chunk of the shirt and left a huge hole..so i had to adapt a little!

Old jeans get a new look..and Julia thinks anything i make her is super cool :) i had most of the materials on hand so it was fairly cheap for me to do! i may make another outfit like this..different applique and color with the jeans she has gotten to tall for, her waist rarely grows out of anything. I love the custom look. And she still looks 5, which makes mommy happy :)..the only thing i didn't do on the link below, i actually appliqued  the shoes..i didn't leave the edges raw. I used quarter fat material, it was on sale for 1.29 for one and i only needed one for the dark fabric and one of the light with lots left over! you should totally try this if you have little girls in your life!

Click here for the tutorial I used

He Speaks!

Please note: I Kinda annoyed Elijah intentionally  to get him to talk for the camera..he hates the camera. He is learning to speak in phrases, more than the typical word by word speech pattern. But we are getting there and i am very proud! Enjoy!

Elijah Speaking

Valentines Day

Holy Cow its been awhile since I blogged, and i have missed it. So much to catch up on, and we will..But i thought i would show you how we celebrated valentines day..albeit i do have to admit..i think this holiday is a little to "made up" for my taste, i think its important to take time to say "i love you" so we tend to make this a "i love my kids holiday" and celebrate our love for them this day :) Kris and i usually buy a card for each other and i always get flowers...but we use this day to talk about loving people, and the importance of it.

So when daddy arrived home from work with a 3 balloon bouquet the kids were so excited :)

I honestly don't know what Elijah was doing here..lol..pondering how much he loved his balloon maybe?!


Earlier in the day Julia and i made lasagna rolls (or "basanga" rolls as she calls them, and i have decided not to correct her grammar until she is 16)...mmmm...i think i may prefer them to lasagna, just in the fact is uses all the noodles in the lasagna box and it serves individual servings..she is such a good helper :)

  and we had small gifts for the each of them, and they loved it! Elijah kept saying "birthday cake"..he quite doesn't get the whole holiday idea yet ;) Julia was sad to see the day end..cause you know she "loves every one in the whole world" and honestly Titus was just happy to carry his balloon around and call it a "baboon" hehe..so cute!

          So we had a great V Day with our loves :) So happy we have holidays to remind us to celebrate the small things, like our family, and how much i love them!                                                                    

Blessings of toast

sometimes in life it is all how you look at a situation. While i was using the *ahem* facility's..Julia wanted to make me breakfast, she rolled out the microwave cart and made me...breakfast. Now my house smells like burnt smoke, bread and plastic and my Tupperware will never be the same. But some how i still think it is cute she took the time to make me something. She was so excited i didn't have the heart to tell her i would probably be toxic poisoned if i even attempted to eat her creation. I have allot of work ahead of me in teaching  her how to cook, but at least i know she has a servants heart..which is more important than good cooking skills anyhow..or at least a very close second ;)

Whats for Supper?!

Rachael Rays Pizza Puff Recipe

is what! they are so yummy and we call them pizza muffins..my kids don't like pepperoni so we are gonna try different flavors..i am thinking Hawaiian pizza is a next time try (ham or bacon and pineapple) we doubled the recipe and did full size muffins..i think they would re heat well also, give them a try!

Drinking from a cup!

What an accomplishment! His sister and Mr Elijah have been having many tea party's and through these tea party's Elijah has learned to drink from an open cup!! yay!! Every one is so excited and Elijah now is drinking all the time to show off said new skill

I made Julia a hat, she thinks its pretty cool!! i consider that a success!

and this little guy continues to be as sweet as ever!

today my nephews are coming over, and i plan on doing a special thank you post to all who donated to the autism walk, life has just been so full! have a good day :0)