Block Puzzles

I got this idea from Pinterest...block puzzles. Best part, I had everything I needed. I printed a few images out and mod podged them onto wooden alphabet blocks-I used 9. Here are the pictures, it took me an hour and a half and the glue dries really quickly so the kids were busy with them a few minutes after being done.

Can you guess what games/shows we watch? I might do more, we'll see. For now Lauren is content with three more puzzles, she loves puzzles!

Did you know...

that Feb.15th is Buzz Lightyear's birthday? I actually made it up, it was raining that day and we decided to throw a birthday party to lighten things up a bit. First was making cookies, that's all I had on hand, peanut butter cookies, yummy. Then we had a little shoe box and filled it with toys that Lauren picked out for Buzz, how about that-toys for a toy.  Then we lit a candle and sang to him. It was fun, Lauren asked a couple days later if tomorrow was Buzz's birthday, so cute. Here's a picture.

Happy Valentine's Day

Todd made a video for me for Valentines Day, it was really neat and I'm glad he made me a video instead of signing a card. It's on youtube, here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPVrpIrYPQ&feature=plcp&context=C34fd00bUDOEgsToPDskKX3nxzwyuTBIG2sC8w7Oaz

Enjoy!

San Dimas Canyon Park

The kids love this park, it has way more than a regular park does...it has a little zoo! Owls, snakes, turtles, and deer etc. They also love the playground, here is Lauren being a big girl and running around all by herself.

Fun times

Mess free finger painting...was a hit!

don't mind the dirty diapers outside, oh well.

My Garden

When we first moved into our apartment I was excited for some dirt, we had a balcony patio in our one bedroom our first year of marriage. I had planted cucumber, squash, tomatoes, and pumpkins (rookie mistake, they took over the entire patio!) Last year I just never went out to the patio, ever, both kids were too little to play out there especially when the weeds took over everything. This year is different, I have plans and by golly I'm gonna do it, because both kids are driving me crazy in the house and they love being outside. Once I clean out everything and put in the mulch and flowers, then they can run and go crazy! I want to get a sprinkler for them to run through and a water/craft table for them to play with messy things outside. Here are the before pictures.

Valentines

I finished decorating my mantle for this month, I'm trying to mix it up this year instead of just Halloween and Christmas.

The banner says "Je t'aime" it's french for "I love you". I figured we needed to represent our romantic French lineage.( I'm not french I just inherited the last name but the other three people in the house are).