My little MONET'S

 

The girls and I have been learning about Claude Monet in school. I say "the girls and I" because I have truly enjoyed learning with them. It has been very intriguing to me to learn about different artist lives, and work. This week I had the girls study "Monet's Water Lilies" and paint it themselves.

One thing I had to do that was so hard was show them how, and give them an idea of how to search for the colors, but then leave the room. They amazed me at their ability to see the right colors, and mix them, and still keep the painting "impressionist" style.

This is what they came up with

Jenna's

 

Alexis'

My Big Girl

We had a great weekend. It was Lexi's birthday on Saturday, so we started the fun family celebration on Friday night. Lexi has been asking for a while if she could get her ears pierced and was very excited when her Daddy gave her permission to have them done for her birthday, so that is the first thing we did on Friday night.

(on the phone with Pa Paw)

We started Saturday morning off with phone calls from family, and a big pile of Waffles! YUM!

Then the girls and I had a tea party!

After Daddy got up from his morning of sleeping (he worked all night) we went as a family to roller skate. We had SO much fun. It was neat for Justin and I to skate with our little bunch in between us. It brought back so many memories of the days while we were dating. We used to roller blade all the time together. It was neat to watch our girls, and hold hands and laugh about those fun times. It was a GREAT day.

   

Then today at our little bible study we had a birthday cake for her. (Luke what do you think of our cake making skills? Nothing compared to your football cake of course :)) She wanted a fairy cake, and we put our heads together and came up with this. It was a blast. One day I will venture outside of a pan cake, but I need some more practice!

whew!

Ok, things are slowing down after a crazy week and a half. I feel so bad that I have missed so many good blogging opportunities. :) I will catch up though, over the next few days. Our family had the stomach bug over last weekend, which put me behind, because that is usually when I catch up. :) I talked to my sister yesterday and realized that I have got to stop living in this "PRIORITY" mode. Only the absolute priorities get done. All the little things get behind, until they get forced to the top of the list (or the laundry is so high, it literally is the HIGHEST thing in the house). I am frustrated with this way of functioning, but at the same time feel kind of helpless to do anything about it.

I am going to work this week on being more constructive with my time, using it wisely, and doing the important things! :) AND feeling more hopeful to do something about the chaos