Nature Walk

The sun was shining, the temp felt good, and seems we had a long winter.  So decided we should take a nature walk.  Couldn't believe I forgot my camera especially after seeing all the neat things.  I used my broken phone camera thats why the pics are so blurry.  Sorry!!

 Jordan picked up this huge stick, he could barely carry, so Lawrence came to try and help.

The kids discovered a pine cone tree, so we filled up our bag with pine cones and small sticks.  They all carried a big stick, and played with them in the water.  The ducks were all around and also some baby ducks.

Backyard

Our secret garden is now complete.  I layed a tarp down before I poured lots of top soil

in our garden.  We also added gloves, shovels, muffin tins, planting pots, watering cans, fake flowers, rocks, aprons, bug houses etc.

Next to our secret garden will be a beach cottage.  The process has been started and hoping to complete soon.  Please ignore the black cord they hung on the fence.  Actually came to mark yard today to bury the line.  Also thinking I need some vine growing on the lattice and a few stepping stones.

I don't watch the babies, but a special request for a day of a sibling I've had for years. She actually was good and enjoyed munchin on her little snack outside on the blanket.  We all love the beautiful days outside.

I have these big tree stumps that I can't keep in the rocks.  The kids look under them everyday for rollie pollies, so I gave up trying to set them up for walking across em.

Picked up a bird feeder for the kids to fill and hang in the tree.  Within a week all the food was gone. We filled it again and now the kids keep an on it.  They also found a bird nest in one of the climbing toys and look what it has, a blue egg, a robin egg.  How exciting!!  We are not allowed to touch it and all patiently waiting to watch what happens.

Mothers Day

I wanted to kids to make something with art but at the same time, the parents could actually use it.  I found these bowls on a website and thought I would attempt to help 10 kids with this.  Ahhh not an easy project to do and everyone really needed extra help.  But I couldn't wait for the finished project, I knew they would be beautiful.  Water and flour mixed, and brown paper sacks cut into strips.  I covered all the bowls in saran wrap so the mache popped right off. After a few layers they dried for a few days.  Then I cut off the extras around the rim. Ready for acyrilic paint.

 The kids were making all kinds of noises as they were playing in the messy mache.  It always so fun getting our fingers and hands dirty.

Your bowls would have turned out like these if I didn't go back and finish putting more layers on them. Atleast now the bowls have no holes and you can use them to put candy or something in.

After 24 hours in the house, I set them outside to dry to speed up the process.

Keaton will be starting school this fall.  He is my dinosaur man and a very good artist at drawing one.

Hmmmm what could we put in the bowls?  Cookies, choc chip cookies.  All the mommas like cookies

So everyone had their turn of measuring and pouring the ingredients in the bowl.

Aaaannnnnd our finished product. Paper mache bowls with choc chip cookies. Hope you guys enjoyed!