It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...

Superman! Our house is super hero crazy at the moment. That's all Ty and Micah talk about. It's all they play right now! I have never known so much information on super heroes in my life. I will be the first to admit, I am really enjoying it! I am constantly laughing at the things they come up with. One minute Spider-Man is at my house shooting webs, the next wolverine has his claws out fighting, the next minute someone has one of my headbands stretched over his eyes playing cyclops. Love. It.
A friend came over the other day with a cape. I had toyed with the idea before about making them a cape, but quickly decided that they would have no idea what a cape was. They knew. Immediately. I guess that knowledge comes in the little boy handbook, who knows. Anyways, I was making a trip to hobby lobby that very day and decided to pick up fabric to make capes. Superman capes as requested. I guess they knew that superman has cape. I was prepared to do a Spider-Man or venom or hulk cape if requested. *eye rolls* a cool mom would KNOW hulk, Spider-Man, or venom does not have a cape.
These were so, so easy to make. I actually just cut out around the borrowed cape (thanks Mary!) but you can do any shape. I used Velcro as the fastener. I copied Ty's superman Tshirt logo on to paper as my stencil.
My boys were excited. So excited! I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. It makes me excited to try more things for them!

Loving The Little Years

I have wanted to read this book, possibly since I had my boys. I got it as a gift from my church during my baby shower with Averie. 10 months ago. I got sick recently and wasn't able to leave bed. It kind of paid off, I was able to read this book. In 1 day! Yay for me!
Such a good book. It's 102 pages. 20 chapters of short stories. I highly recommend any mother with little ones read this. It's so encouraging!!

Snow Days and Sleds

I honestly can't even remember if this is our first snow or not but we were so excited to have enough snow to sled. Barely, but we did it. My dad bought the kids a sled and we pretty much prayed for snow so we could use it. So fun!!

Bunko, Dirty Santa, Food!

I haven't mentioned this on here before but I am part of a bunko group. We meet once a month to get our bunko on. It's a fun time! Good food, good fellowship, no kiddos! Every December we do a Christmas party and do an ornament dirty Santa. Lots of great taste when it comes to ornaments. I actually ended up leaving with the ornaments I brought!
Renee did a great job decorating for the night! Thanks for opening your house to us Renee!

He's Here!!!

It seems appropriate with the holiday season upon us to start teaching Ty and Micah what Christmas is really about. We have our tree up, gifts wrapped and under the tree, and it seems we are getting packages in the mail every day. It's easy to get caught up in all this excitement and not celebrate what this holiday is really for. It's not about the tree, the lights, the music, or the gifts. It's about THE birth. It's about HIM!
This year it seems like Ty and Micah are understanding what is going on. Today we started reading about the birth of Jesus in The Jesus Storybook Bible.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0310708257/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1354222514&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
This book is great! We have already read through several times. Its easy to read, easy to understand and every story points to Christ. It has great art work too. It's great for kids (and adults!). I highly recommend it to all of you. I even made it easy and added a link!
Today we read Luke 1-2, the nativity. It's an amazing story!

*warning, you may need a tissue!

Christmas Cheer

Every year we do a Christmas card. I was so excited to get my package in the mail today!! I also ordered a big copy for my wall! I am so excited!!

House Cleaning

Something about adding one more person to our family has made things crazy around here. She still pretty much sleeps all the time but I still can't catch up. Our house is always a disaster, I can barely get dinner on the table, and exercise is a joke. Sad part is, I work almost non stop.
I recently found (a friend posted It on facebook, thanks Kayla) this blog. http://time-warp-wife.blogspot.com/2010/09/home-maintenance-schedule.html?m=1

It's a life saver. I honestly haven't kept up with it this week because I have been having sinus headaches, but this has really worked for me. It tells you exactly what you need to do each day to keep your house clean. It recommends 3 ten minute cleans a day and I find that if I have the boys clean up their toys during that time, it makes it easier for me. They have to learn to clean up after themselves at some point, right? Why not start now.
I just can't stress enough how much this has helped me. I mean, I was told by someone when I was crazy sick during my pregnancy with Averie that as long as my clothes were washed, who cares if they sit in a huge pile without being folded, but is it bad that she is 7 months old and I still do that? Old habits die hard, or new habits, or something...
The thing I love about this, besides the fact that I can keep up with my laundry and my floors get mopped and my tubs get scrubbed is that it gives me time to craft without feeling guilty. And if I want to sit during the kids nap and facebook or blog while watching a cheesy abc family Christmas movie I can!!! But I totally do NOT do that. That would be embarrassing.
Anyways, to wrap this up, hopefully this will help one of you the way it has helped me! Let me know if you try this and if you like it!!