Vinyl Giveaway

Amy at "Words and Wisdom" is having a vinyl giveaway. Check out her blog; http://www.wordsandwisdomvinyl.blogspot.com/ .

No point in wishing you good luck, cuz I'm pretty sure I'll be the winner. :) J/K

A is for Alligator

Today was Abree's first day back to pre-school.

She was so excited, she didn't even mind when Treyson woke her up this morning.
(Normally that could have irritated her.)
This year, we have a new friend in our pre-school, Skylar. Abree is very excited to get to know her. Welcome Skylar!

A is for Alligator. Aren't these so cute?!

I'm excited about this year. We're incorporating "sight words", Zoo phonics (learning the letter sounds with an action) and other Kindergarten preparation. I hope these girls are at the top of their Kindergarten class next year.

PS- After I posted this, I noticed 2 spelling errors (now corrected). Maybe I need to go back to school. Sheesh.

Happy Scrappy!

I taught my friend Amber (Jason's car wash assistant's girlfriend) to scrapbook today. She has a sweet 8 month old baby girl, Kenya and a baby boy on the way, due in January!

She wanted to make baby books for them, so I offered my dining room table, my stuff and my Monday to help her get started.

We took some of this...

and put it into 2 of theses...

and made this...

and this...

and this...

and several others cute pages. I think we ended up with 22 pages total! Not bad for a day's work.

It felt good to exercise my scrapbook muscle. It was starting to atrophy from lack of use.

Looking at this sweet face makes my aching back and messy, neglected house all worth it.

Isn't she a darling?!!!

Favorite Deals This Week

My favorite deals of the week...

6- 3pks of Crystal Light for FREE

2lbs of Cheese for $1.99 (not pictured) x 2

4 pieces of Cover Girl make-up for $8.39.

My kids even praised me and gave me a high-five when I told them about it. :o)

Cousin Time

While Tim and Karen got moved into their "new" place, the girls came and played at our house.

Fun, fun, cousin time.

Sorry, I can't play. I have homework.

This past Friday, I had to turn down an opportunity to go to, "Art in the Park", because I had homework.... oh, I mean Taylee had homework.

Her assignment was to create a newspaper, about herself. It had lots of details and things to be included in the assignment. It actually took 3-4 days to fully complete.

Included was: 3 advertisements, a letter to the editor, 2 personal stories, a cartoon strip, a single cartoon, an editorial and fantasy article about her making history as an artist.
All of them had to be typed up and then neatly arranged on a large piece of poster board. Taylee added a few photos and drew a couple of pictures to give it more interest.

I think we... oh, I mean she, did a great job.



PS- I've done more homework this year, than I have in the last few years combined... and we're only in the third week of school!!! I haven't had this much homework, since I was IN school. This is going to be a busy year.