I was featured on thrifty 101

I was contacted by Michelle over @ Thrifty101.blogspot.com she asked if she could feature me on her blog.

I was thrilled she asked me, last week she was featured on Good things utah for her fun, great ideas, money saving blog. Go check it out you will love it. Me and my kids tried her tortilla snowflakes and they absolutely loved it.

(Repost) Fun new years eve idea for kids

I'm re posting this picture form my last years post.

Last new years eve we went to my sisters house and hung out and played games, so i did something fun for the kids.

I bought brown lunch sacks cut out circles and drew clocks on them all different times, starting at what ever hour you want i started at 8pm, then each hour the kids got to open a sack and play with whatever was in the sack and it usually kept them busy until the next hour.

I got all my stuff at the dollar store and most things came in packs of four.

Somethings i used where play dough, glow sticks, coloring books & crayons etc. but the last thing being noise makers.

Have a fun & safe new years eve.

If anyone has ideas or traditions of things they do i would love to hear.

Day 7 - 11

Day 11

On the 11th day of Christmas little elves brought the kids a book of Christmas songs, the girls thought it was so cool.

Tayler asked if she could pretend to be singing while i took the picture lol.

Day 10

On the 10th day of Christmas little elves brought the kids a fun book about snowmen and marshmallows & toothpicks to make igloos & snowmen.

We also took the kids to see Tangled for the 2ND time for us girls, Dustin & jace's first.

Day 9

On the 9th day of Christmas little elves brought the kids a box of learning\game cards.

Day 8

On the 8th day of Christmas little elves brought the kids Play dough. Dustin said " i don't know what who ever is doing this to us was thinking giving our kids play dough" and smiled at me:)

Day 7

On the 7th day of Christmas little elves brought the kids coloring books & crayons.

Pictures with Santa

Santa came all the way down from the North Pole to Our neighborhood Fresh Market today.

I took the kids over to pay him a visit. This was Jace's first photo on Santa's lap, he climbed up all by himself.

Day 5 & 6

On the 6th day little elves brought to the kids a Nutcracker book & a Nutcracker ornament for the tree.

Check out Jace's smile :)

On the 5th day little elves brought to the kids... Christmas coloring books and crayons.

HAWAII.... HERE WE COME!!!!!

So Thursday morning i get a text from my husband saying" You ready to go to Hawaii?!"

His work told them all by giving them real luau necklaces, heck yes I'm ready to go to Hawaii.

I have 6 weeks to get skinny lol.

Day 3 & 4

On the 4Th day of Christmas little elves brought to our home... a nativity set with a book & a felt nativity set for church.

On the 3rd day of Christmas little elves brought to our house. a cup of hot cocoa & cute straws.

On the 2nd day of Christmas

On the 2nd day of Christmas little elves brought to us....

a house made out of rice krispies & all the goods to decorate too.

The kids decorating their house, they were so excited to find the basket on the porch filled when they got home from school.

posing with their finished product.

The kids are having such a blast everyday when the doorbell rings, and the basket is filled.

Teacher gifts. I made one for my girls teacher and my sister asked if i would make one for her kids teachers, i loved making them and they were so easy and cheap.

Inside

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Day 1

On the first day of Christmas little elves brought to us....

a fun Christmas bingo game & and a bag of candy.

I am doing the 12 days of Christmas to my kids and they are loving it, i started on Monday night and they received a basket with a note telling them to leave out there basket every night to receive the next item.

october catch up!!

Well i got so behind on blogging that i just started posting the most recent stuff and didn't post some of our Halloween fun activities.

We went to my sisters Halloween party this year again. We always have fun, her ward is so sweet and always makes us feel Right at home. The kids had fun playing games
Kari & Curtis

Karly & Brevyn. Brevyn had the cutest costume which was off by this point but it was a football:)

Dustin's work has a fun Halloween party every year out at the Davis county fair grounds, it is always fun they have dinner, games, prizes etc.

The kids loved making these tube things that you filled up with different flavors.Their finished tubes

Jace shooting hoops his favorite game.

Jace jumping with Yoda

Daddy taking jace for a turn down the big slide, he was not sure if he wanted to do it alone.

We then had a classroom party at the girls school. Megan dressed up as Super women & Tayler was a BYU football player for this party.

Then it was the biggest party the one i was in charge of it was our ward Halloween party.

Megan, Aniah, Jace, Aannya & Tayler

Well sadly i have no camera so i don't have any pictures of our ward Christmas party that was on Saturday morning. But hopefully Santa will bring me a new one for Christmas this year.

Childrens Museum Field trip

On Tuesday Tayler & Megan had their first field trip for the year. I was lucky and got to go with and be a parent helper, i was in charge of 6 kids Reese, Megan, Tayler, Tora, Kayla & Brigham. Poor Brigham he was the only boy, but i couldn't have picked one better boy to have had in my group he is a cute kid from our neighborhood.

Reese & Tayler on the bus ride down.Kayla, Megan & Tora.

Brigham was sitting with me and i didn't get a picture of us:)
It was crazy busy with tons of kids, but we had fun.

Taylers favorite part was the rock wall.

I was glad i got to go and help out with my girls class. I love watching my girls interact with kids and have a blast!!!

Movie night

Dustin was in Vegas for work for a few days so i let the girls have a movie & pizza party with some friends from school & the neighborhood. We all wore our pajamas ordered pizza and watched "polar express" and all the girls brought their favorite treat to share. The girls said O'klyn won for the best p.j.'s

Lauryn & Aahnya

Megan & Ava

Reese, O'klyn & Tayler

Lauren, sydney & Aniah

These girls were so silly, we had a blast it was so fun hanging out with them. They were all fighting over who got to sit by me or on my lap during the movie:) We played games and danced after the movie was over, I'm so glad my girls have such good friends & are such great examples to my girls. And Jace also had a blast too, one of the girls that came has an awesome dad who took jace to Mcdonalds to play and back to hang out at their house while us girls played.

I took a few pictures of jace the other day he was being so silly

O'klyn had a birthday awhile ago and i guess she got this fun makeup kit so after school one day the girls all came over and gave each other makeovers.

I got to spend a weekend with my sister scrap booking, watching movies, hot tubing & eating junk food. It was a blast and it was much needed, love you sis.