Love Is In The Air!!!

  Well folks Valentines is almost upon us! What will you be doing on Valentines??? Well you all know this Momma will be busy!!!  I have already been busy!!!

   My girls started selling Girl Scout Cookies on the 2nd and we have been running and selling cookies just about EVERYDAY since then! Each girl has a main goal of 50 boxes to earn their cookie patch and then our troop goal is 2,000 boxes!! My girls alone have already sold 216 boxes! That sounds like a lot but when you split it between the 2 girls that is only 108 boxes each. Which that is still a lot and we still have till the 17 of March to sell them! So we have plenty of time!!! Anyway the girls are having a blast doing it and they can't wait till their first booth sale!!!

  

For the past 3 weeks we have been working on Valentines boxes for the kiddos! I didn't want to wait till the last minute to get them done because we had 4 to make! Then I find out that I need to make one for the headstart!!! Originally Bri wanted a piano but I had no clue where to start so we made her a laptop! It turned out really cute!!!!! Then lil man wanted a tractor so that is what we made him! He LOVES it!!! Ayrton said he wanted a Dr. Pepper can and I said OK! Sounded pretty easy to me! So that is what we made him! I add the cute lil saying of course but the idea was all his!!! He is really proud of it!!! I had a hard time trying to think of what to make for myself. I got to thinking that as a teacher we are here to help children learn and grow and what came to mind when I thought of grow was a tree. My tree of love bloomed from there! Lorelai had no idea what she wanted so we "Binged" some ideas and she LOVED one of a bee hive! So that is what we made! She had a blast with the paper mache! I think hers is the cutest of all of them!! Can't wait till they can take them to school and see what people think of them! Over all we did a really good job on them!!!

 

  This week we have the K-3 basketball festival which both of my girls will be playing in ;) Then we have a 4H meeting on Wed. and then the kids have their Valentines parties at school on Thur. Lil man's class is doing lunch at Apple Bee's so that will be a lot of fun! Not to mention a YUMMY lunch before heading off to the other 3 kids parties!!! I have a question though my oldest son and my daughter's class doesn't have a party per-say, where the parent provide the treats, they have to bring their own goody bag that day. Do any of your kids have classes like that? Which do you like better? I am not really sure which way I like better cause you don't really save any money cause then you can personalize your childs goody bag and that can become quiet expensive!

  Anyway I hope you and your Valentine have a VERY Happy Valentines!!

Getting caught up!

  Well Hello there!! Yeah I know its been quiet a while since I wrote a blog. In my defense I will say that from Thanksgiving on it has been pretty busy! Our lil family has had many highs and lows since then! We have had everything from wrecking my new car and having to deal with all of that to 4H contests and basketball games! I will say though what doesn't break us makes us stronger! I wouldn't trade my busy life for anything in the world! With that being said I am going to get back into my weekly blog posts! Here are some upcoming weekly events!

  

  Today we have County Round up! Ayrton has to give a speech over our potbelly pig Harry Porker today for 4H! We have been working on it for about 2 weeks now! He says he is ready but I am one nervous Momma! I made him some note cards to help him out. Hopefully next speech he will have it memorized! Wish him luck because he gives his speech sometime after 5 today!!!

  Also this week we have to make Valentines boxes to hold the kids Valentines cards for school. Over the weekend we made Lil Man's and Bri's but we still have to make Ayrton's and Lorelai's. I can't post pics of theirs just yet because they are have a contest over them at school. I can post the one we made for Lil Man though! I think we did a good job! Last week Lil man's class took some Valentines pictures that turned out really cute. I just had to take a few with my camera!

 Basketball season ended this past weekend with a Byng Tournament. The boys did really well even though they didn't place. Ayrton did however get his first free throw and made his first free throw shot! We were all super excited about that one! This week though is baseball sign ups! So let the SEASON BEGIN!!! I am ready!!!

  That is about it for this week! Doesn't sound too busy but that is just this week! LOL! See you next post!