What's up Wednesday

I thought I'd bring the blog up to speed with what's been up with our family the last few weeks.

First, it's cold! Very cold. When it hasn't been cold, it's been snowing. This hasn't been a bunch of light snowing either, it's been snow-nado, blizzard conditions...snowing! This has been a winter for the weather record books because our temperatures in the MidWest have gone so low(40 below) that they have cancelled school several times; even some churches have cancelled Sunday services. 

Next, I've been working weekends which has been awesome since the kids are on hiatus from sports and activities during the winter. Now that their seasons are approaching it's going to take some serious juggling. I like to work, hence the fab five; and hubby likes the extra money. 

Of course these two situations (the subzero snow days and me working weekends) has lead to what I've coined as 'FamilyFratHouse'. Simply put, our place is a bit of a mess. To top it off BabyGirls "nose is melting" and when she catches a  cold she loves to cling to Momme. So today I'll be cleaning and rearranging and organizing in hopes that Spring will soon be upon us. Thanks for reading, take care.

Make it Tall

As I've been reflecting on the year that has past as well as praying and planning the year ahead. One of the reoccurring themes in my mind are all the cute ways our Baby Girl expresses herself. One of my favorite phrases of hers is "make it tall'. Baby Girl doesn't like her beverages short and she has no problem requesting that you..."make it tall". Well the phrase "make it tall" has taken on a life of it's own not only in our house but also in our hearts. Now that I think about it, I want 'make it tall' to be our 2014 theme. Making our love TALL, our dreams TALL, our Praises TALL, our Giving TALL, our sowing TALL, our Reaping and Prospering, all tall. No matter what your resolutions, goals or plans are for this year remember 1) Progress is a Process and 2) Make It Tall.

KIDZ TAKEOVER THE BLOG 4 CHRISTMAS!!!

Day1: Diva Daughter

Hi everybody.  Well, I want to talk about my classroom Christmas party.
We made a blanket to donate to our local Children's hospital. We made our blanket by tying rectangle felt pieces in knots and putting them all together. We also made Christmas tree sugar cookies. I liked frosting mine with butterscotch frosting and adding every kind of sprinkle. We played Christmas BINGO and made candy cane ornaments.

Momme really liked the snowman gift I made her and Dad in school.

Isn't it cool! Let me tell you how we made it...
First we got a 'clean store bought sock', put two cups of rice in the bottom, then added 'stuffing the ribbed part', pick out buttons and add the googly eyes, then we umm added the nose and stuck a pom-pom on his head and our teacher glue gunned it together. My teacher is really awesome!
We are really getting into the Christmas spirit at home too. Momme and I delivered our neighbors some Christmas cards and we mailed some too. When we got home everyone got to wrap their Secret Santa gifts and we hid them til Christmas Eve. My big sister is still trying to find out who's secret santa I am so I keep having to change my hiding spot. My Dad was too, but I made him pinkie promise to stop snooping around my room.

Well that's all I want to blog about for now. Subscribe to our blog and read it tomorroẅ, my kid brother is taking over and I know you can't wait to see what he blogs about. Bye.