Great Big Sparkly Egg

I saw this wonderful craft at The Imagination Tree blog and knew I had to do it with Lily.
You can also see it here at The Chocolate Muffin Tree blog.
Aren't those awesome blog names?
They both have great tutorials on this project.

We started out ripping tissue paper.
Which is not always as easy as it looks.

Then we dipped the tissue into glue mixed with a little bit of water.
And placed it onto a big egg shaped balloon.

Lily really liked this project.
I'm so glad she likes to do crafts.

After the whole balloon was covered, I painted the rest of the glue mixture with some pink glitter mixed in all over the balloon.
It took several days to dry but it was well worth it.

We hung our big sparkly egg in the kitchen window.
The pictures really don't do it justice.
We love our sparkly Easter egg!

And I've got to say, I am soooooo HAPPY Spring is here.
This So Cal girl doesn't have much love for the MO winter.

But the Spring here is glorious!

And so are these two little munchkins!

Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Our town has this Easter egg hunt every year. This is Lilly's third year...and shes three years old. This is the first year she had to do it without any parental help. I think she did okay, in fact, I see resemblance of feeding time in a shark tank!

Polly Pal

I recently joined an online (free) photography class.
And, there is still time to join by going here.
The teacher, Bethany, is awesome in photography and I'm excited to learn from her.

The first assignment was to photograph something old.
I came across my old handmade doll my mama made me about 33 years ago.
She probably looks older because I played with her so much.
I love the vintage fabric of her dress.
And the vintage color of her yarn hair. I don't even know what you'd call that color.
Butternut squash?
Her name is Polly Pal.

Thirteen

My little man turned 13.

The first time he held Maddie

The first time he held Lillie

BFF (do boys say that?)

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This is my favorite bouquet of flowers I have ever received.
One rainy Saturday morning I heard a little knock on my bedroom door.
And there was Sky with this big beautiful bouquet of wildflowers he went out and picked.
At first I didn't believe he had picked them himself, they looked so professional.
But he did, he searched our big field for the prettiest flowers and brought them to his mama.

Happy Birthday son!
You are the funniest, handsomest, sassiest 13 year old I've ever met.
I love you so much.
You make me so happy!

Six

6 Months!
What's it like to be half a year old?

For this little one it's trying to cut some teeth in!

No smiles, just gnawing away like a little puppy.

Your almost crawling.
You just have to figure out how to get that tummy off the ground and then you'll be off!
(uh oh)
You've had green beans, squash, fresh banana, applesauce, sweet potato and carrots.
I gave you a few bites of mash potatoes.
And, a taste of Cool Whip. Which, of course, you LOVED!
Your growing too fast!
Slow down!
Your so squishy and cuddly, happy and drooly.
I just want it to last forever...

One Hundred Snowmen

I wanted to post these pictures before spring and I didn't quite make it.
So here is my last winter post on the first day of spring.
We had one beautiful sunshiny day with the perfect consistency of snow to make
a hundred snowmen.
And that is what we did.

Lily LOVED making this snowman. It's her first real snowman and everyone helped make it.

Of course we had to have some snowball fights!

Jonas had this AWESOME idea of building a snow skateboard ramp.
The boys took off the wheels of their skateboards and "skated" down.
It provided many hours of snow fun.

Lily went down it as a slide and loved it!

Sky did some cool jumps!

Daddy made some snow dolls for Lily.

And the day ended with making a huge Gulliver's travel type snowman with 99 tiny little snowmen all around. This was a group effort and everyone (except me and Maddie) worked hard on this until dark.
Lily helped make many of the tiny snowmen and she worked really hard and stayed so focused on it until they were all done.

Can you believe this was all made in one day?
Sky came in and said, "I never knew playing in the snow could be so much fun."
It was a good day!

Unbeschreiblich (Song: Nicole C. Mullen - Redeemer)

This is so inspirational! Watch it twice because the first time you'll watch it through tears!