Fly on the Wall - March 2015

Welcome to a Fly on the Wall group post. Today 15 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you’d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house.

Buzz around, see what you think, then click on these links for a peek into some other homes:

 Baking In A Tornado

 Spatulas on Parade

 Follow me home

 Menopausal Mother

 Stacy Sews and Schools - ME

 Battered Hope

 Just A Little Nutty

 The Momisodes

 Someone Else’s Genius

 The Sadder But Wiser Girl

 Dinosaur Superhero Mommy

 Disneyland in Kentucky

 Juicebox Confession

 Searching for Sanity 

 Go Mama O 

Well...... You see.... I sorta... Well... I forgot to write down the funny stuff again. I know, I know... I suck at this! SIGH.... 

Anyway, I thought I would share pictures of some of the stuff that we've done this month. Now that's it trying to get a little warmer we will be out and about and doing a lot more fun things! :D

We had 2 good snows this month. The kids LOVED it!!! 

Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to keep up with their gloves so I made them some out of fleece. From what the kids said, they were much warmer and stayed much drier than regular mittens or gloves. :D

In spite of the bad weather, we managed to make it to one of the Lowe's Build N Grow workshops. 

WOW! Colin had major hoodie hair! 

   

They had their last art class. Here they were studying Dali. 

Next up is architecture! They will be learning how to read plans and draw their own plans!! :D

This is from our other homeschool group (we are in 2). We were planting seeds for spring! Cailey and Colin were adding acorn "hats" and rocks to their pots. 

This is what our grass looks like now!! LOL It went crazy! :D

We got the cats a new cat house. I think they like it. LOL

The oldest 2 boys decided to get pet rats. I think the cats like them, too. ;)

This is from one of our geography classes. They were learning about Bermuda so the teacher had them pretend to be mommy turtles laying their eggs in sand. The kids had to put the cotton balls (eggs) in the bucket without using their hands. They had SO MUCH fun with that activity!!!

In our other group moms take turns leading Fun Shops. I volunteered to lead our St Patrick's Day FUn Shop.

We made leprechaun traps! In Ireland (a long time ago) people would put a box with a coin in it in their yards in hopes of catching a leprechaun. 

We also did pepper prints. If you cut off the top of a pepper, the bottom makes a wonder clover print!!

I also made bean bags out of the shamrock print burlap but I forgot to take a picture of them. :/

After the Fun Shop the kids couldn't help but play in the mud and creek! 

Last weekend was very sunny and warm so we went to the park with friends. 

Wednesday we had another meeting with one of our homeschool groups. We had a mini carnival! There were a bunch of games set up, face painting, crafts and more! We made paper flowers for the first time!! 

We have a ton of fun stuff coming up, including our first trip to the symphony!! I can't wait!!!! 

Eileen from Eileen's Perpetually Busy will be in the area and we will be meeting up like we always do when she's in town. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! 

OH! And birthdays galore!! Cailey's is the 23rd, mine is the 25th and Colin's is the 31st!!! YAY!!!! 

Fly on the Wall WEDNESDAY??? - February 2015

Welcome to a Fly on the Wall group post. Today 14 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you’d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house.

Buzz around, see what you think, then click on these links for a peek into some other homes:

Baking in a Tornado

                    

Spatulas on Parade

Follow me home

Stacy Sews and Schools

Battered Hope

Just A Little Nutty

The Momisodes

Someone Else’s Genius

Eileen’s Perpetually Busy

Juicebox Confession

Dinosaur Superhero Mommy

Menopausal Mother

Disneyland in Kentucky

Go Mama O

If you're new to the Fly on the Wall posts, they are usually about funny little snippets that happen during the past month. But then sometimes people might forget to write those funny little snippets down. Then those people are probably not going to remember what those funny little snippets are. And forget asking the other people in the house. They aren't going to help you some people remember because those funny little snippets were about THEM!!

Here are some of the things I remembered. Then I'll show you some of the stuff we have been up to over the past month or so. 

The Crazy People That Live Here

Me

The Hubby

Jacob - 21 yr old son

Joshua - 19 yr old son

Deanna - 18 yr old daughter

Cailey - 10 yr old daughter

Colin - 7 yr old son

TJ - Jacob's best friend

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So, our power went out last Saturday night for about 10 hours. It was SOOOO cold!! The wind was awful!!

It was SOOO dark!!!! 

Here's what happened:

Joshua - Hey, Cloud, hiding in the guise of darkness. Oh, never mind. You're a hoodie.

So, Deanna has a flashlight but instead of using it she stumbles around in the dark kicking things and making a ton of noise.

Me - You could actually use that flashlight, y'know. Or are you TRYING to wake everyone up??

I put Deanna, Cailey and Colin in my bed (king sized) to keep them all warm. Cailey and Colin have been very sick and Deanna was starting to show symptoms. DH and I camped out in the living room. Around 4am, it was just too cold for me and I decided to see if I could sneak into the bed with them.

Apparently Deanna thought I was a blanket thief. 

I also grabbed Cailey's face a time or three while trying to get comfy. 

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TJ comes in the next morning, after the power is back on. 

I am whispering to him and telling him what happened.

TJ - Why are we whispering.

Me - Oh! Deanna is taking pictures of the cats.

Made perfect sense to me.

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Remember how I said Cailey and Colin have been very sick?

Cailey didn't realize that if you pass gas while you have a stomach bug, something other than gas just might shoot out. 

Thankfully she was already on the toilet.

Cailey tied her blanket around her head. She had tissues stuffed in the top part like a squirrel storing nuts. 

Deanna describes it like a magician pulling scarfs from his sleeve. 

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Deanna is playing a game with Colin but she keeps dying.

Colin to Joshua - Why can't she be smarter??

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Look what The Hubby got me for Valentine's Day!!

Isn't she beautiful??? A 1956 Singer And she WORKS!!! Perfectly!! I just need to figure out how to really use her. ;)

Here's my other vintage machine, a 1964 Kenmore. Unfortunately this one doesn't work but The Hubby only paid $20 for it.

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We went on a little field trip with one of our homeschool groups. We visited a local supermarket.

This was the highlight of the trip.

The kids even got to pet the lobster! Well, Cailey did. Colin wanted no part of it!!! LOL

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Before the kids got sick we managed to go to Home Depot for one of the kids' workshops.

We didn't get to go the one at Lowe's. They were both too sick. :(

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On a warmer day, we did painting on buffalo hides (paper bags) while we learned about the Plains Tribes.

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We made pictures of longhouses while learning about Woodlands Tribes.

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I found this really cool kit on clearance at Target and just had to grab it. 

They had so much fun with it!

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This was our first snow for 2015. Not much but they still had fun.

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Our first Easter candy of the year. Bunny faces! :D

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Cailey and Colin attended their first Valetine's Day party complete with Valentine's cards to pass out. As homeschoolers, this is one of the things we haven't done. 

Cailey chose Frozen cards while Colin had be print out Dr Who cards. ;)

They had tons of fun with their friends! But I forgot to take pictures. :/ I was too busy blabbing. Bad mommy!!

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Well, that's it for this month!!!

Don't forget to check out all the awesome blog posts!!

Our Week in Review - Nov. 28th to Dec. 6th

Ok, so it's a little more than a week, don't be picky. ;)
We have been SUPER busy despite the fact that Colin's allergies are back in a big way. I swear, can't we have everyone in the house healthy at one time??? PLEASE?? What would it take???

Here's crazy Cloud. She still thinks she's a tiny kitten. I find her all over the house in the weirdest places!!! 

How he manages to get his food all over his face is a mystery to me. LOL

We went to pick out our tree the day after Thanksgiving. Colin got to help cut it down. 
I love the little tree farm! The elderly couple that own are super nice! The kids always get a candy cane and the gentleman always helps tie the tree to the top of the van. 
SO glad to be living back where we can go to them. 

Cailey and Colin helped decorate the tree. They LOVE that part so much!!!! 
BUT, can you see the tree listing to one side??? Right after this picture the tree fell over. EVERY single thing fell off except for one drum ornament. 
SIGH!!!!!!! 

This is how it looked the second time we decorated it.
Notice I said how it LOOKED.... Well, now it seems that we have a leak in our tree stand. All the water that we thought was sustaining our tree was actually pouring out all over the presents. 
ARGH!!!!
I bought a new stand but I haven't been able to talk anyone into helping me switch it out. It needs to be done quickly, though... Our tree is drying out!!

 We went to the Home Depot kids' workshop. Cailey and Colin love them so much. They got to make garden stakes for Christmas! They are now lining our walkway. ;)

We went to Bass Pro to see Santa. BUT (there's always a BUT) when we went to get in line we were told that they were handing out passes to see Santa at 3. It was 11:30. :/ Soooo, we went over to watch the fish feeding. After that we stayed for the craft.

I didn't want to drive home just to drive back to see Santa so I took the kids to get something to eat and do a little Dollar Tree shopping. 

We got back to Bass Pro at 2:30 and went to get in line. Here is where I had a "Christmas Story" experience....
We walk up and it looks like there's no one in line. I show the lady my Bass Pass. She says, "That's great but you need to get at the end of the line," and points behind me. 
I kid you not, the line was to the back of the store. 
INSANE!!!
An hour later the kids had finally gotten to see Santa.

They were SOOOOOO happy!!!!

Tomorrow will be the December edition of Blog with Friends!! WOOO HOOO!! The Jolly Jinglers!!!
My part will be a tutorial for the elf hats that the Cs are wearing PLUS elf shoes!! WOOO HOOO!!!

Then coming up soon, the tutorial for the houndstooth circle skirt that Cailey is wearing in the Santa pic. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!