Girly Hair

We had fun playing girly hair the other morning and I took some pic of the super easy little bun I have been doing in Emmy's hair. I got the idea from the Hair for the Mini Diva blog, her little girl has hair similar to Emmys and so it is a good site for us to get ideas from! Here is the link.

Then she had an idea...
...Annie Oakley returns! So much for the cute girly do!!

I was in hair mode so I decided to try "baby piggies" on Mollie. She acutally did pretty good sitting still for this. I had to gel them to get them to stay but they came out cute!

Easter Pictures

First I had to take some pics of Emmy's Easter "Up-do", I was so happy with how this came out and everyone commented her on her hair at church. I am so happy to be blessed with little girls that I can play dress up and hair with!!! I had been looking at a lot of "hair blogs" for some inspiration on what to do with her hair and this is really a combination of a few. I did a messy bun in the back, some cute little twists on the sides, and left the front which is bangs and some extra hair out to frame her face. Here she is:

I tried to get some cute pics of all the kids together after church but "princess" Emmy would not hear of it and threw a fit, so here are some of James, Ethan, and Mollie which didn't come out great=:(
After only a couple of shots Mollie was done too! It didn't help that the boys were putting things on her head and begging me to take a pic!

I like this one of Pat and Uncle Zack doing up their ties.

Auntie Sarah and Uncle Zacky... they are so cute!

Here is Emmy later on at home after she had something to eat acting as cute as a button and willing to pose and dance for the camera!

PS - Please don't look to close at the messy under construction kitchen!

Homeschool Sledding......again!

Nana and Bumpa (Pat's parents Sherri and Bill) very graciously let the homeschoolers come and invade the place for another awesome day of sledding. It was a beautiful day in the 40's and 50's and lots of sun! This time it was a little on the warm side for running snow machines so we didn't have the escort service up and down the sledding hill, but we did get a few rides in!

Ethan and Bumpa headed to the hill!

Mollie and Nana hanging out at the bottom.

Lauren and James getting ready

Emmy thought it would be fun to pull Lily around in the little sled, not sure if she was enjoying it as much as Emmy though!



Mollie's first snowmachine ride!

James had a great time "surfing" down the sledding hill! Check out the video I took of him in action. He actually was able to stay standing the whole time because the snow was so sticky.


Ethan and Pat are up to no good here by the look of their faces, I think snowballs had something to do with it!

Smile! I got this group photo at the top of the sledding hill.

Pat snapped this one of Mollie and I enjoying the sun. We actually went down the hill in a sled like this (thankfully no one caught that on film).

Emmy was sporting these cute little "noggin knots" (as I call them), they stayed in nicely even with a hat on!

As you can see from these pics it was really sunny and warm! The boys actually got really bad sunburn on their faces. Of course stupid me never thought of sunscreen and the boys were out there from 10:00am to 4 or 5:00pm!!

We made snow paints (food coloring and water) and put it in spray bottles for Emmy and the other little ones. The big kids actually enjoyed them a lot too!

Emmy and Beckah thought it would be fun to add some color to the snowman Nana built with some of the kids.

Dominic and Emmy making the snowman pretty!!

Valentine Fun at the Kelley's

Valentine Math

The best math is the math you can eat: Necco conversation hearts!

Valentine Red Velvet Cupcakes

I saw this recipe in a new magazine called All You, I really enjoyed the articles, recipes and crafts inside and as a bonus it has tons of coupons ($33 dollars worth I think!). Here is a link to the magazine web site and the recipe for the cupcakes:

"All YOU"

We made these yummy cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for our annual Homeschool Family Sledding Day that just happened to fall on Valentines this year.

Valentine Hair

Inspired by the Everitt girls super cute hair, we just had to get in on the fun! Here are Emmy's "wipmy hearts" as they call them on this web site where we found the directions for little girls who have fine or thin hair.

And finally:

Valentine Sledding

Here are a couple pics (only a couple because our camera battery died), the first one is a good view of the hill we sled on at Bill and Sherri's (Pat's Mom and Dad or Nana and Bumpa as the kids call them). The second one is of Pat and Dan doing something to the snowmachine which we use to transport all the sleds and kids back up the hill for maximum sledding fun!