Busy Weekend

Tasha and Ethan took a little trip to NC to celebrate her birthday so we had the three grandbabies for the weekend. I took the opportunity to do some Pinterest art. Owen is at the age where handprints are impossible so her did some footprints and Vaida did Santa and his rain deer.

Vaida wanted to do a gingerbread house so we picked up some kits from Five and Below. The kids had fun and success in keeping them together until they demolished them to eat the candy.

Owen wasn’t feeling well so he mostly wanted a lap to sleep on. He is such a cuddle bug.

I have decided that I need a table in the house for my craft stuff. I use the dining room table. We eat dinner together every night so it does pose a problem. My table is large but so is the family. I decided that I am going to squeeze a spot in the play area. So I started to organize the space. I got an itch to organize the duplos... in the spot where I want to put my table. It won’t stay organized long. Anyone have great storage ideas for duplos/legos that actually work?

Our weekend went fast and the week will be short. I feel like Christmas will be here very soon and I am not prepared.

Paint Party

 We recently has a paint party. We had some good friends come and we all enjoyed painting and eating. The adults painted then the kids painted. We have our annual ornament party on December 8th. I am still looking for ideas for that! 

Looking at all my pictures makes me realize how I have been neglecting the blog. I just assume that people follow me on Instagram or Facebook and this is all old news or duplicated. But, I imagine that there are many that just read here so I will try to do a better job! You can’t fire me anyways.

Added the Benjamin picture because he looks so much older to me. He is growing up on me.

Costumes

I am sitting here on my phone wondering if I ever shared these here. Larissa and I worked on sewing the dragon as well as a baby dragon on purse as part of our homeschooling. Benjamin is just the cutest leprechaun although I am biased in that opinion. The dragons name is Calvin. The baby is Hobbs.

Renaissance Festival 2019

Well, pictures will be out of order because my phone did that and won’t let me move them around. After a few years of missing the festival we made a strong effort to go this year. ALL the kids in the house went. Foster child did jump but can’t share those pictures. We don’t exclude our foster kids from our activities.

We do enjoy dressing up and creating costumes! We had dragon trainers, woodland elves, fairy, leprechaun and unicorn. This was the first year Benjamin got to jump, he loved it. I could go all day and just sit and watch people.

Anyone go? We loved the one in Texas we used to go to and on the same day my brother went to it. So funny to see we both posted pictures at renaissance festivals so far away and unplanned.

Miguel

I am not sure who follows me on Instagram, but I am sure if you do that you are curious about the sudden increase in Miguel pictures. Without too much detail Joselin was struggling so I offered to take Miguel while she got on her feet. She asked me to take him for the weekend and then for two months. So he will be with us until the new year. He sure is a chunky boy!