Super Bowl Weekend

Super Bowl Weekend was half work weekend and half fun weekend.
LOVE IT!!
Friday night the girls pulled out the Easy Bake Oven... my kids sure seem to love this thing!

Mini Chip is all about recycling.

Saturday we did some cleaning, organizing, and decluttering in the bedrooms and the garage. It builds up SOOO fast!

Sunday was more of the same and then we went to a Super Bowl party with Nate and his friends. It was tons of fun!

I made these yummy desserts to share:

I don't really know what to call them... puff pastry with milk chocolate, whipped vanilla pudding mousse, and strawberries... YUMMMMM! Yes, they really were that good!

The theme of the party food was Mexican so we also brought a veggie tray and chips with homemade salsa.

Mini Chip was having so much fun! He let so many people hold him, I was amazed! He is such a happy, good natured little boy!

I am so grateful to be his Mommy!!

There were lots of other children there too, so all of the kids loved it and had lots of fun playing cards, running around, and just being kids together. Mr. Cookie had a really good time yelling at the big screens with the big boys and I had a very nice time chatting with the ladies and watching the game. All in all this was one of the very nicest weekends we have had here in Arizona.

The little fella refused to take a nap while with the big guys at the party... so when he finally passed out... he was OUT! LOL!

How was your weekend?

Did you do anything for the big game?

All my love,
Christina

Wordless Wonder...

Wells Fargo History Museum

The girls posed for a picture outside the Phoenix City Hall that was right by the buildings we were visiting.

After the Slim Goodbody show at The Orpheum Theatre we had lunch at a street vendor and then decided to visit the Wells Fargo History Museum.

It was all about the history of Wells Fargo Co. of course.

We had fun looking around and doing the activities they had there. We printed American Dollar Bills with our faces on them.

We took a simulated ride in a stage coach:

We printed a newspaper with each of our photos on it that was about the Pony Express that used to be owned by Wells Fargo 150 years ago.

We also used some machines that used to be for punching holes in checks. Apparently this is where the phrase "cut a check" came from.

Here is my little guy in his Ergo carrier... I love this thing!

He is such a happy little boy!

God has been very, very good to me.

Love and hugs,

Christina

Slim Goodbody Show

The Slim Goodbody Show was wonderful and if it comes to your area I highly recommend it! Especially if you have elementary age kids, it does a very good job of being educational and fun all at the same time. Here is the website if you want to check it out: http://www.slimgoodbody.com/

(It looks like he will be in Minnesota in May.)

This trip was especially wonderful for me because for one, it was held at The Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix and let me tell you that this building is pretty sensational!

You can kind of see the outside of it in the background there but it really does it no justice at all! It is amazing! Here are some shots of the inside, again, does it no justice... but amazing!

I studied Architecture in college and I just love these buildings that are very ornate, detailed, and just beautiful!
Another thing that I loved so much about today is that Mr. Cookie came with us! :-) It always makes me happy to spend family time with our big guy. Here he is with some of the homeschool group we went there with.

We had front row seating! We have never sat in the front row like that before... pretty cool!

Slim even waved at Baby Mini Chip! (Which was a thrill for the big kids, but he didn't really take much notice.)

After the show, we went to this street vendor for lunch, that was a fun experience too!

We talked with the ladies that run it for a bit and learned that there is a whole lot more to being a street vendor than first meets the eye! There are lots of permits, inspections, auctions for locations, and on and on! We ate lunch on the street there too, well, at the bench along side the street that is.

:-)

What a day!! We had so much fun!

Mini Chip...

I busted the little fella being all cute and waiting all patient like for his lunch.

He actually let me snap the picture too!

(He has been TOTALLY messing with my picture taking! Grrrr!)

CHECK HIM OUT!!

 He thinks his tongue is REALLY fun!

 Every time I think he can't get any cuter... he does!!

Course, he is his Daddy's boy! :-)

{{HUGS}}

Human Body Unit

As part of studying about the human body and it's systems, we made life-sized cutouts of the kids...

... and the cat! LOL!!

It is hard to see in the pictures, but the cutouts do have legs and arms... The project kind of morphed into a more artistic, designing thing than I had originally planned, I just let the girls imaginations go! It was VERY cool! They wanted clothes on their persons too, not organs! What if someone saw them! LOL!! In the end the baby wound up with the organs and the cat made a life-sized replica of herself as well! LOL!!

Tuesday is library day here, so this week we tried another new library...

Chocolate Chip even ran into an AWANA friend there!

WOW!! :-)

At this library the librarian told us about another branch library that was alot bigger, so, we went there too! 

There was this life-sized metal tree there called The Learning Tree. Really cool!

Tomorrow we go to the Slim Goodbody show!

SO EXCITED!!

{{{HUGS}}}

HELLO FEBRUARY!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT IS FEBRUARY!!

 Mini Chip LOVES sweet potatoes!
(He looks good in them too, don't ya think! LOL!)

 He and I played with blocks on the floor while the big kids did the big floor puzzle in the other room.

 This Melissa & Doug 4' Human Anatomy floor puzzle is PERFECT for our unit on the human body and it's systems! It's a two sided puzzle. One side is the skeleton and the names of the major bones of the body and the other side is of the circulatory system and the major organs of the body.

The kids love puzzles!
And I do too! :-)

I made this Italian soup for supper. It was super easy and pretty tasty too!

Mr. Cookie is driving home from a jobsite that is 7+/- hrs away.
DRIVE SAFE Mr. Cookie! :-)

So... that is some of what we did on the first day of the new month...
How did you start your month?