Mother's Day

Since I have a bonus child, I wanted to help her with her Mother's Day gift.. I was at Michaels and saw a bunch of things that were not very expensive, I could throw together. And I found a pack of 2 of these scrapbooks for only $2.99 what a deal! So I decided I would make a scrapbook for her. I asked Hailey to write a poem or letter to her mom, but I know she did not do it. So I ended up printing a fill in that she can add 3 things to it and BAM we are done!












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This will go in the inside cover of the scrapbook!

 I found this cute game idea- the M&M game.. mommy & me.
It is packed with peanut and plain M&M's, what you do is: throw the M&M's in the box and grab a color.. the color corresponding with a question. So you get to learn about your mom as well as she gets to                     learn about her daughter.

~This here is a journal with I love Mom sticker on the top of it, with a notepad in the same design, a bracelet with D on it for Hailey's mom, and then a huge paperclip to hold notes or whatever you would like. Then I topped it off with some crazy ribbon that kind of matched~! Hailey was telling me, "my mom is so lucky". Her mom will probably give it to her if she won't use it. :)

Teacher Appreciation Week is coming.. MAY 6th-10th, 2013

I am going to make sure I can do something everyday for my daughter's teacher! I even wrote how many days we will have Hailey and how many things we need to do for her teacher.  I will buy all the things we need to use and then I will have the girls help me make them, so they can feel involved and the have pride in doing something nice for their teacher. Is it weird that I am so excited? 

I got this off a wonderful site. I made my own label on top in Word.

Danika for some reason was wanting to make colored pebbles in
a water bottle. So I had to talk her into a bigger rock as a paper weight!
It worked really well, she painted it and it looks nice. The end result was a little too much for me, but it was all about Danika and what she wanted. She really likes her teacher, so it comes from the heart.

First day goodies.. All sorts of candy and we baked cookies.  I found some grable boxes I got for samples and used those. I have tons and tons of thank you cards, so I got them to write a special note in there for the teachers. I really like to do this! Teachers do so much & to think now they have to protect our kids from violence too. Now they have the "lock down drills" which is scary, but I depend on their teachers to keep them safe!

 And Now they are ready to give them to their teachers.

 Last year, the one thing that I loved was the plant with the saying "thank you for helping me grow this year".. I like it because this plant will stay as long as the teacher takes care of it! It is such a great idea. Hailey wanted to paint hers so we found a terracotta plant and since Danika was still finishing her rock, I told her to get a planter that was ready to go.

Many thanks to the following bloggers:

Cozi Central

This is the best Family Organizer App and Online product out there! I love Cozi-
*Calendar
*Meal Planner
*Recipe Keeper
*Journal
*To do List (can be sent to your mobile device)
*Message other family members

~LOVE_LOVE this!

Recipe Boxes

Almost done...

This is 1 out of 4...

more to come....

Next will be the inside of what this looks like.... I need to laminate the cards and I am doing 2 of them

I got this idea off The Pearl Owl blog.. Love it!

Making a cupcake stand for Danika's birthday

I needed a stand, but did not want to pay much for it! So I searched online for pictures on how to do it..
Dollar Tree!! I got a pizza pan and 3 serving trays, with 3 glass candle holders. I bought spray paint at the local hardware store and made my stand! I love it!!

We are having a RockStar party for my daughter and it is all pink and purple! The hardware store had only flat paint (matte) for both the pink and purple, they had a purple with gloss in it. I had to have both colors match so I got the flat paint. I have to say I like it better than I think the glossy!!
I then hot glued the trays to the candle holders! This whole project cost me about $17, maybe a little under.
And I get exactly what I want!

Easter Bunny Bait

This is amazing!!! Please do not make as much as I did! The recipe I got it from said it was popcorn crack & she is NOT kidding!!

RECIPE:
 2 bags of microwave kettle butter popcorn
2 cups of rice chex cereal
1 cup butter pretzels, that i broke into pieces
1 bag of pastel M&M's
White Chocolate

~I had it in a bowl to start, but it just was not working. There was way too  much stuff. So I laid it all out on parchment table and spread it all out and melted the choc. I then just poured it all over and stirred and mix..
This was so good, that my boyfriend came in 5 times to get handfuls and told me to put it away! LOL