Monday, September 05, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
bathroom video
This is actually from Saturday just before Easter, so the "today" actually refers to a few days ago... in case I'm looking at this years from now and am confused :-)
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Easter and BR update...
I've been making more sock monkeys for birthday presents!
Here's the bathroom floor after K sanded it... it looks so great! I'm looking forward to this bathroom!
Made Paska on Friday after church! It took about 6 hours or so for everything to rise 3 times... but the boys asked me to make it... I actually love making bread!
More Easter crafts... I loved this one... very fast, and very big, and we all did it together:
Here's the bathroom floor after K sanded it... it looks so great! I'm looking forward to this bathroom!
Made Paska on Friday after church! It took about 6 hours or so for everything to rise 3 times... but the boys asked me to make it... I actually love making bread!
Some Easter crafts happened each day...
The little one decided to make Easter cards for his cousins/aunt and uncle, and his nana and bop:
The little one decided to make Easter cards for his cousins/aunt and uncle, and his nana and bop:
Of course, you have to decorate Easter egg cookies! We've done this every year for a while now:
More Easter crafts... I loved this one... very fast, and very big, and we all did it together:
Went to get haircuts... with some added green!
The Easter egg hunt!
Dancing around with the celebration music at the end of the Easter service!
The Easter egg hunt!
Dancing around with the celebration music at the end of the Easter service!
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Game night!
Here is a video of one of our game nights from a few months ago! It's with a fun game that family sent to us at Christmas!
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Virtually exciting again!
Here's the actual whole video!! It's a choir of 2052 people from around the world, and I'm in there somewhere! I can't find myself yet... but I'll keep looking :-)
I finally found myself, at 3:52 and 4:45... but very small!
Here is a picture of the participants... I'm 9 from the right, and 7 down. If you click on it, the picture can be made bigger... but I'm still a dot, really:
Also, when I click on it, my mouse pointer becomes a magnifying glass when I move it over the photo, so I can see it a bit closer... I found myself better that way!
I finally found myself, at 3:52 and 4:45... but very small!
Here is a picture of the participants... I'm 9 from the right, and 7 down. If you click on it, the picture can be made bigger... but I'm still a dot, really:
Also, when I click on it, my mouse pointer becomes a magnifying glass when I move it over the photo, so I can see it a bit closer... I found myself better that way!
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Virtually exciting!
I recorded a video for this "Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir" experience a few months ago...
Here is a preview:
The actual full video will be available on YouTube on Thursday, April 7th in the evening! So excited to see it!
Here is a preview:
The actual full video will be available on YouTube on Thursday, April 7th in the evening! So excited to see it!
Spring break activities!
Lots of fun this week!
Sat: went to buy a Wii game that big boy wanted with some birthday money...
Sun: MTYP show! So great:
Mon: HUGE ice cream cone fest!
Tue: Toad Hall Toys
Wed: Bought some markers that you can use to paint ceramics, because we have a bunch of tiles from the old bathroom!
Thurs: Made a puppet theatre:
And then went to the Brandon Fair! Lots of animals...
and sporting some new 'airbrush' tattoos:
A visit at Grandma and Grandpa's after for a few days (Grandma picked up those great fleeces on our mini visit into town)...
and back to school!
Sat: went to buy a Wii game that big boy wanted with some birthday money...
Sun: MTYP show! So great:
Mon: HUGE ice cream cone fest!
Tue: Toad Hall Toys
Wed: Bought some markers that you can use to paint ceramics, because we have a bunch of tiles from the old bathroom!
Thurs: Made a puppet theatre:
And then went to the Brandon Fair! Lots of animals...
and sporting some new 'airbrush' tattoos:
A visit at Grandma and Grandpa's after for a few days (Grandma picked up those great fleeces on our mini visit into town)...
and back to school!
Friday, April 01, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
The bathroom today
Here is the bathroom earlier today....
But Kurt just brought up the other two bath pieces... so now it's looking more like a bathroom!
But Kurt just brought up the other two bath pieces... so now it's looking more like a bathroom!
Monday, March 21, 2011
Pre-spring fun...
That's enough of that bathroom:
Can't go in that way anymore (on the other hand, very weird that there was 2 different rooms...so happy that is done):
As lovely as this will be, there is a bit of mayhem in our house for a while:
Can't go in that way anymore (on the other hand, very weird that there was 2 different rooms...so happy that is done):
As lovely as this will be, there is a bit of mayhem in our house for a while:
Okay, it ended up looking like this...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
8! 8 years old! How??
Our big boy is 8 years old, as of 4 days ago! They are studying Egypt in his class, largely because the June before school started up again, his teacher asked them all what they are interested in, and then she creates a year theme that encompasses all of their interests... that's right... he is the luckiest kid... except the little one's teacher is like that too, so equally lucky! Anyway, he said he was interested in Egypt, so that is what they have been doing for the past several weeks!
Anyway, because of this I made cookies (he wanted chocolate sugar cookies, so I found sugar cookies can indeed be chocolate) and chocolate sugar icing... then I put the first letter of each child's name in the class in hieroglyphs. I put them in the fridge, and they ended up looking sort of weathered like this, which is perfect:
He said people just ate them and loved them and didn't pay attention to the letter! Mental note for future... kids just like cookies... no need to include the Rosetta Stone.
For the party with friends, I read through my favourite birthday party idea site, called "birthdayPartyideas.com" which is where I have gotten sooo many ideas over the years... then I picked the ideas to use... I made an Egypt cake:
The pyramid is made out of rice crispy cake. It was cute... instead of asking for an end piece or a corner piece, kids were saying "Can I have some of the Nile?" or "Can I have some of the pyramid?" The "sand" is actually graham wafer crumbs from Bulk Barn. The cake itself is a beautiful chocolate cake recipe (click here to see it... then MAKE it!) because my 8 year old said he wanted chocolate cake, so I thought "well, then it is going to be REAL chocolate"... and WOW! What a fantastic recipe! It turned out perfectly! Note in the comments of the recipe the "Jennifer" that is talking about how great the cake is - that's me! Because it was great!
When the kids showed up, they went to an archaological dig, in which I had put little plastic Egypt figurines that I had bought from Michaels... they come in a tube. It seemed a good thing to do as they arrived one at a time... something to occupy that waiting time:
Then they had home made pizza, that Kurt made (by request, because his pizza is amazing)...
Then we went on a mummy hunt around the house... This was an idea I got from this website (click here). I had clues written in hieroglyphs, with a code chart that they could all have. They ran up to one room, and found a few mummies, under which one would have a clue for the next room... and off they all ran to that room... up and down together, it was pretty cute! Good reason to have lots of small rooms, and do this at home, because it wouldn't have been as fun in a community centre gymn... where would you hide stuff? I had hieroglyph names above all the entrances to rooms. Once they all found their mummies (they had their names written in hieroglyphs), they opened them in the living room. As they opened them, chocolate coins and jewels (ring pops) fell out, to go with the idea that mummies are in their tombs with all of their prize possessions. I had to refrain from explaining that to a room of kids who might not want the mom to "teach" them on a Saturday. Then, the bigger item was t-shirts that I had made with the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the word "jubilation" which I had found in a book. I decided to loosely interpret the word "jubilation" to mean "party" :-)
I made them all from a template I carved from a pizza box! Good thing I kept it because one was too small, so I'll make another one!
Then cake, presents, and they played "decorate the mummy" which they did with toilet paper. I came up with goofy titles like "most horizontal" or "straightest" instead of having a winner!
Anyway, because of this I made cookies (he wanted chocolate sugar cookies, so I found sugar cookies can indeed be chocolate) and chocolate sugar icing... then I put the first letter of each child's name in the class in hieroglyphs. I put them in the fridge, and they ended up looking sort of weathered like this, which is perfect:
He said people just ate them and loved them and didn't pay attention to the letter! Mental note for future... kids just like cookies... no need to include the Rosetta Stone.
For the party with friends, I read through my favourite birthday party idea site, called "birthdayPartyideas.com" which is where I have gotten sooo many ideas over the years... then I picked the ideas to use... I made an Egypt cake:
The pyramid is made out of rice crispy cake. It was cute... instead of asking for an end piece or a corner piece, kids were saying "Can I have some of the Nile?" or "Can I have some of the pyramid?" The "sand" is actually graham wafer crumbs from Bulk Barn. The cake itself is a beautiful chocolate cake recipe (click here to see it... then MAKE it!) because my 8 year old said he wanted chocolate cake, so I thought "well, then it is going to be REAL chocolate"... and WOW! What a fantastic recipe! It turned out perfectly! Note in the comments of the recipe the "Jennifer" that is talking about how great the cake is - that's me! Because it was great!
When the kids showed up, they went to an archaological dig, in which I had put little plastic Egypt figurines that I had bought from Michaels... they come in a tube. It seemed a good thing to do as they arrived one at a time... something to occupy that waiting time:
Then they had home made pizza, that Kurt made (by request, because his pizza is amazing)...
Then we went on a mummy hunt around the house... This was an idea I got from this website (click here). I had clues written in hieroglyphs, with a code chart that they could all have. They ran up to one room, and found a few mummies, under which one would have a clue for the next room... and off they all ran to that room... up and down together, it was pretty cute! Good reason to have lots of small rooms, and do this at home, because it wouldn't have been as fun in a community centre gymn... where would you hide stuff? I had hieroglyph names above all the entrances to rooms. Once they all found their mummies (they had their names written in hieroglyphs), they opened them in the living room. As they opened them, chocolate coins and jewels (ring pops) fell out, to go with the idea that mummies are in their tombs with all of their prize possessions. I had to refrain from explaining that to a room of kids who might not want the mom to "teach" them on a Saturday. Then, the bigger item was t-shirts that I had made with the Egyptian hieroglyphs for the word "jubilation" which I had found in a book. I decided to loosely interpret the word "jubilation" to mean "party" :-)
I made them all from a template I carved from a pizza box! Good thing I kept it because one was too small, so I'll make another one!
Then cake, presents, and they played "decorate the mummy" which they did with toilet paper. I came up with goofy titles like "most horizontal" or "straightest" instead of having a winner!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
There you go, little one...
Well, as helpful as Grandma's sewing machine is, in this case it didn't help because the socks were too fluffy, so I stitched this all by hand... but worth it for little one!
As for the big boy's stop film show, more on that later, because his involves recording his own voice, and 2 different kinds of music, so I have to line that up in Garageband first!!
Where are names?
I don't write any children's names as much as possible, or locations, nor do I put in photos of others' children without asking. This is a private site that cannot be found in a search. It has been shared with you, but please do not share it with others. Thanks, and much appreciated!
As for the big boy's stop film show, more on that later, because his involves recording his own voice, and 2 different kinds of music, so I have to line that up in Garageband first!!
Where are names?
I don't write any children's names as much as possible, or locations, nor do I put in photos of others' children without asking. This is a private site that cannot be found in a search. It has been shared with you, but please do not share it with others. Thanks, and much appreciated!
Stop film fun
Still waiting for the socks for the sock monkeys to dry, so we're making stop film movies! Thanks to Garageband loops for the rockin' tune!
Now it's our big boy's turn, but he has to make a backdrop first, which is cutting into his Wii time with his new game! That's okay! It's no fun to make stuff like this if it feels like work, so play away... I'll be over here if you need me :-)
Now it's our big boy's turn, but he has to make a backdrop first, which is cutting into his Wii time with his new game! That's okay! It's no fun to make stuff like this if it feels like work, so play away... I'll be over here if you need me :-)
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