Sharing some pictures

In an effort to blog more often I thought I'd share some pictures!

This is little sis.

This is how she dresses on a daily basis.

She will only wear skirts and dresses.

She loves knee highs. 

When left to her own devices she will pull her knee highs up over her leggings.

She beats to her own drum! 

This is my entire gang with their great grandpa.

We are a dance family.

This means that we spend the majority of our time at a dance studio.

This was after their annual recital.

We are so thankful to have great grandpa in our lives!

This is my entire gang with my niece and nephew!

This is by far the greatest picture the five of them have ever taken together.

Talk about an almost impossible task.

This picture was actually taken in front of my great grandpa's barn.

there you have it. I hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

Teacher Appreciation Gift & a little give-away

Howdy Friends!

It's been a while!

I'd like to blame it on a whole list of things...

 but it's really just me not taking the time to mind my blog like I should.

I thought I'd take a minute to share my teacher appreciation gifts this year.

A little classroom subway type art.

They include all the kiddos names from each class along with the teacher names, year and grade. 

I uploaded them to Wal-Greens photo center and printed them as 8 x 10's. 

Including frames the gifts cost less than $10 each. 

I know it's the end of Teacher Appreciation Week, but the first person to e-mail me 

I will gladly design one of these bad boys for you.

I will post back here in this very spot once someone has emailed me.

Congratulations to Laura!

 She is the winner of the classroom subway art!

Broken Heart Puzzles Revisited

I posted this Broken Heart Puzzle Game two years ago.

So I thought I would go ahead and re-post it in case you are new to the blog and have not had a chance to download it yet. It was one of my most popular downloads. 

My latest download is a Broken Hearts Puzzle Game. 

There are numbers 1 -10. 

Cut out the hearts, then cut them along the dotted line down the middle. 

Your kiddo can count the dots on each half to match the puzzle pieces.

I hate to waste paper, and there are only two puzzle hearts on the second page.

So I added a small heart shaped match game to the second page. 

You get two games for one with this download. 

Print two copies of the second page to have a set for matching.

Let me know if this is useful. 

Do you like that I included the same number of dots on each half of the hearts?

The Link

Broken Hearts Puzzle and Match Game

Site Word BINGO - Traceable

Um....I know I started talking about this months ago.

I finally have it finished.

I have included 11 unique pages with this BINGO pack.

Not sure why I stopped at 11. That's an odd number right? 

This is the TRACEABLE version. 

I am working on the non-traceable version and will have it available after the first of the year.

I forgot to make an instructions page.

The first page of this document includes "cards" of all the site words.

These are for you to cut out and pick from a hat, a bucket, or a shoe.  

Or you can print the sheet, leave it in tact, and read them off in any order you see fit.

I'm always a fan of lamination, because you can use them over and over again.

Or if you have unlimited printing resources you can print them over and over again to your hearts desire.

The Link

Traceable Site Word BINGO

I hope everyone has a Happy Holiday! 

See ya next year!

Sorry I couldn't resist!

You can find this post linked here:

and here:

Hey Mommy, Chocolate Milk

Weekly Library Link Up

I can't get this link to work right now. 

You can visit the site by going here:

http://www.heymommychocolatemilk.blogspot.com/2013/01/moms-library-link-up-12.html

Site Words BINGO

So I have had multiple posts asking me to make a BINGO game with Site Words.

I am happy to announce I am currently working on this.

My ABC lowercase BINGO has been downloaded over 1,000 times.

Obviously very popular. 

Here's my question.

Would you like to see the site words traceable like the ABC BINGO is or would you just like to see the words listed? As in not traceable. 

Also, would a numbers BINGO game be useful?

I was thinking I would create it with the actual numbers and number words.

All are in the works. 

I will hopefully have it finished by the end of the month.

I would love any input!

Thanks!

Howdy!

Just a quick note to say that it looks like my files are active again.

Honestly I am not sure how they were re-activated, but I am 100% super happy that I am able to share them again.

Kids Lunches

Lil' Sis is starting kindergarten this fall.

For some reason this sent me into a panic thinking about her trying to manage lunch.

First of all she is SUPER picky.

Second I wasn't sure she could open containers.

We've been practicing lunches with the babysitter.

I thought I would share some of the lunches.

I found these ziplock divided containers.

Apparently they are super hard to find.

I may have gone overboard and ordered 20 of them at

www.drugstore.com. Here's the link to the product.

I see they are now out of stock. Hopefully they'll be back in stock soon.

I know some people use the Easy Lunch Boxes which look very similar. 

Above are two lunches.

One is Lil' Bros and the other is Lil' Sis'. 

Bro's has a bologna ( I just sang the oscar meyer jingle in my head to spell that) sandwich on whole wheat bread cut into the shape of a pumpkin. 

You can find the cutter set on Amazon.

Cookie Cutter Stencil Set

Bro's lunch also includes red grapes, graham crackers, fish crackers, pretzels and some leftover spaghetti noodles. 

Lil' Sis' lunch has a peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich cut into a butterfly and cat shape. I cut both from the same sandwich. The butterfly is a pat of the set I mentioned above. The cat cutter I picked up at a local craft store for 50 cents. 

Sis' has cantaloupe instead of grapes, because most days she pretends not to like grapes. 

The eyes and nose on her kitty sandwich are sprinkles. 

These lunches are about the same as the above lunches. Bro has a cutie peeled and sectioned.

I also cut up some left over pizza into bit size pieces.

For their dessert today they received one cookie and some craisins that are tucked into the corner.

I should note that my kids do not mind cold food. They will eat noodles, pizza, rice, whatever cold. 

The cookie cutters I used above are a unicorn, heart, and a stegosaurus.

Sprinkles make up the eyes. 

In case you were wondering what I do with the extra bread.

Well I try to use as much as posslbe. Sometimes that means the point of something gets cut off, or a foot of a bear is left behind. I like to save my extra pieces to make homemade croutons. 

Sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, the dog gets herself a nice snack.

She loves bread and can hear me open the bag from a mile away.

I am working on adding more veggies to their lunches.

They aren't big veggies eaters, so this will be a challenge.

If anyone has suggestions I am totally open. 

Products I use frequently.