Side walk paint

Here is a fun activity to do with the kids this summer. We had a fun day in the sun painting with side walk paint. I found the recipe here at this site . And we decided to write daddy a message for when he got home.

If you try it out let me know what messages you write!!!

Here is the recipe

1/4 cup corn starch

1/4 cup water

food coloring.

I only made blue cause that is Eben's favorite color but other ideas I saw where to put different colors in spray bottles and let them "spray" paint.

hair clips

Here is a fun and simple project my friend Grace and I did the other night during our craft night!!

We used this tutorial which was so easy to follow to create this beautiful creations.


They can be put in your hair to dress up any due or you can use them to clip onto little girls hand bands or hats.

peanut butter chocolate chipe cookies

Yesterday I let Eben make cookies almost all by himself. I had the ingredients all out and he put them in, mixed them and then enjoyed eating them. Here are some pictures from our adventure yesterday. He always puts on his cute chef hat which I made him a few Christmas' ago and his apron when he is baking.

Start with favorite spoon. Which was used more then once during the baking as a drum stick.

Get caught eating the peanut butter straight from the jar.

Mix all ingredients together.

Jaelyn really wanted to help to.


Enjoy warm cookies out of the oven.



want the recipe

1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter (use 1/4 natural and 1/4 regular)
1/2 cup margarine
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
As many chocolate chips as you like

1. Mix sugars, peanut butter, margarine and egg in a large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. 2. Let sit in the fridge for 20 minutes (this helps make the dough easy to work with)
3. heat oven to 375
4. Shape dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
5. Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork
6. Bake 9-10 minutes.

Makes ~ 2 1/2 dozen

Mango Popsicle

Summer is finally!! There is nothing like waking up in the morning to the beautiful hot sun shine that last all day long. I love the summer...every single thing about it. One thing I really love about summer is the treats you get to enjoy. I LOVE LOVE LOVE ice cream and Popsicles. I would eat them probably every day but they are expensive and they contain a lot of sugar and food dye. So when Eben was around for his first summer I started searching for recipes to make my own. Some times the price is about the same to make healthy pops but that's the thing they are are healthy with no added dyes or extra sugar.



So far this summer our favorite is Mango! Lady J loves them so much. I have a list of Popsicle recipes that I want to try so hopefully I will have a few more recipes to add by the end of the summer. After picking some Strawberries this week I think I will do the strawberry version listed in the recipe as well.

If Mango isn't your thing try these blueberry, Spinach, or frozen yogurt.

If you have any great recipes that you would like to share please do so.

Super Why Birthday party

Calling all Super Readers....


to the book club

This past weekend we celebrated Eben's 1/2 birthday. I know you probably have never heard of a half birthday before. Its not something every kid has but Eben does. That's because he was born on Christmas morning. Lets be honest who wants to add another party into the already busy December month and of coursing adding double the presents for birthday and Christmas just couldn't happen in our little house. Instead we just celebrate his 1/2 birthday in June, when the weather is nicer and his friends can come!

This year Eben wanted a Super Readers birthday. I am sure if you have younger kids you know all about this show. It was pretty easy to pull off cause they have a lot of great printables on PBS kids for birthday invitations and cup cake toppers. I also found a no sew super hero cape pattern and went for it.

So for decorations I was so happy that a friend of mine picked up the Super Reader dolls for me at the local dollar store!! I know $2 for each one...that's not bad and Eben was so excited to play with them.

While shopping around at a second hand store for t-shirts to make the capes out of I came across this puzzle...and yes I squealed when I found it.


Whats a super why party without the Y writer! They were easy to make I simply took a pencil and cut out a big question mark using my Cricut. A little bit of glue and ta-da all the kids were running around the lawn changing stories everywhere.



After all the kids arrived it was time to transform.


Each super reader got their own cape with their super letter on it.

Then they needed to run around the back yard in search for

Super letters. Once they found them they had to run them back to the computer to figure out the super story answer.


Which was Happy Birthday Eben.
After the game we snacked on reds basket of alphabets.

And what would a party be without cake...or cupcakes.


The cupcakes were such a big hit. All the Super Reader characters were on them so the kids wanted to pick out which one to eat.



And it was all over by 11:00 am!! I love morning parties. The kids are happy and full of energy so it was great that they could play outside.

Hip hip hoary the Super Readers Saved the Day!!!


oh and what would the party be without two very cute Princess Prestos!! heheheh





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Summer time fun

Welcome to summer!!! Yesterday we made our summer time fun list of all kinds of things we want to do this summer. I am excited to get out side (hopefully it will get hot) and do lots of fun things this summer. Now I am off to finally get some summer decorations up.

Mono gram

We just finished giving two of our rooms a make over. We now have a new den/office/craftroom and a new bed room. You can check out the makeover process over here.

For the bed room I knew I really wanted to put up our monogram over the head board. I just love the way these look. So this past weekend at our over night scrap book party at church I decided to cut one out using a large Cricut. I love love love how it turned out. All three letters are from Calligraphy. The P is done in 18 inch and the K and M are 10.

For more creative idea head on over to I heart nap time and see what others are doing.