Christmas

We are in Nevada celebrating Christmas with my family. We will soon be headed to Arizona to celebrate with Darin's family too. I had wanted to post pictures before I left, but I just didn't get to it. I will do my best to get all caught up once we return home. Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Ballerina girl

Lily's dog painting

Lily LOVES to paint. She has personally gone through 3 of the crayola watercolor paints on her own. She has never actually painted any thing in specific...until two days ago. I walked by and she says, "Look Mom it's my dog!" I was so excited I swiped it up from her before she could paint over it. So cute!

Christmas Pillows

I decided I wanted to start a new tradition in my house... In October I bought the boys some glow in the dark Halloween pillowcases. They loved them and it gave me an idea. I wanted to do festive bedding throughout the year, but as I researched it, I realized that it would get expensive fast. So I decided to just do pillowcases. I started looking to purchase them online and found a pattern to make them myself. So I set out to make Christmas pillowcases for each of the kids. I think they turned out pretty cute. I want to make more for other holidays throughout the year and maybe a birthday one too. I am feeling so crafty lately :)
Oh yeah, all thie kids really loved the pillowcases, but Will refuses to have it in his bed with him. He gets really frantic trying to throw the huge pillow out of the bed. So for now, it is in Hank's bed. Someday, I am sure he will enjoy having the Christmas pillow.

Reedley Tractor Parade

One of our favorite Christmas traditions. We go to Sal's in Selma and then to the parade. So much fun!

Thanksgiving....finally

Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Debbie came up for Thanksgiving this year. We had a wonderful time. The time went by so fast though. Luckily we will be visiting them in 3 short weeks! Yay!

So far behind....

On blogging and everything else. Feels like I am barely keeping my head above water around here. Today was supposed to be a catch up day, but Will woke up with a fever and the throw ups. Not much got done today. Here are some pictures of a crafty thing I did a few weeks back. I got the idea from another, much craftier Mom than I. I think they turned out fine. They are on the wall now, but at the time I took these pictures I destroyed my calendar in the process of trying to put these up (very typical of how I do things). Anyway...with the help of my dad I was able to fix the calendar and get the clipboards up. They are for school work and other handouts that the kids get during the month. I like how they turned out.