Last Day of school for the girls is right around the corner!! June 6th & 7th.. time to think about gifts for students...

I had several ideas to do and I wanted to do them all, but I picked 2 that I liked. Let me tell you, next year ONLY stick with 1 idea! No need to do a bunch of them, that is just ridiculous! The ball ideas was awesome! Should have just stuck to that one and that would have been amazing. I had 60 balls to do and 60 crazy straws with Kool-Aid- not that much fun!! But they did turn out super cute!

I am a little disappointed in myself! I forgot to take a picture of the teachers basket!! *UGH
I got this idea off Pintrest: I will miss you Berry Much and it is a basket of Berry items..
I made my own signage, added a red card-stock to the back of it, glued it to a tongue depressor and added it the cool plastic container I bought awhile ago because I liked it but my daughter had taken it over to use for her dolls or something. I took it back, that way I did not have to spend money on another basket and we are down in item in our house- no Hoarder here! :) Here is the sign I made:

In this basket I had the following:

Yam Yam sticks-strawberry flavor

Strawberry Tic Tacs 

Berry Flavored Trident Gum

Breathe Lotion for Bath & Body Works

Raspberry Vanilla Hand Soap

Vanilla Candle

This You Rock Mug- I used a baked on pen and wrote her name on it & Danika signed the bottom 

Both Girls got these mugs for the teacher- Hailey's was just in a bag, I did not do a basket for her teacher because I figured her mom would do something also. I do not want to step on her toes!

 I put the 2 items in one bag and added these 'from' stickers on the backside of the bag! I made all these labels/signage in word! I love it!



~I had to update these pictures.. What was I thinking of having our last names posted all over...~

 This is it together in the bag! This is Danika's bag and I will upload Hailey's and it will look the same except her star is a little bigger! We walked into Danika's class with her box filled with these and kids are so funny! They all gathered around- I said she will pass them out. I asked Danika if she wanted me to put them in everyone's cubby for her and she said No Mom! Sorry almost took her thunder!

This was Danika at her end of the year BBQ picnic at the park. I stopped by on my lunch to see her, she was already exhausted and still had about 45 min left to play until they had to walk back to school! The trees are so beautiful! She has such a cheesy smile!! That is forced by the way! That is not her natural one, which is beautiful! Love my little girl! 

Fairy Dust

I found this on Pintrest, but it did not turn out as cool as they made it seem..
I saw another post by another blogger about it, and hers came out so clumpy!!
Our came out ok, the girls were excited but I was a little bummed out! I saw the picture, the girls did not!!
This is what is was suppose to be:

That looks cool!! 

This is how it turns out:

I think it still looks pretty cool, but not at all what I was expecting! Glow sticks with glitter.. I might not have used the correct glitter though!

Redoing chore chart!

I like the magnet chore chart, but decided that is not what works best for our family!
So now the girls are heading into Summer, and getting older: oppps and we have a new puppy!
As I was vacuuming the house the other day, my boyfriend said why are you doing that? We have 2 girls with chores that only last 5 minutes, you can add that to their list.. Who am I to argue? :)
I added more to their chores, I found a printable colorful chore list! The thing is I had to add my own pizzazz to it. Changed the title and added pictures with our chores for our house. I did not do it the cool way though- I literally took my scissors out and glue: printed up pictures and the writing and cut and pasted on my printable! Old school, I know! But that is how I roll..
Here is the new list!


The girls love them! Not only for the pictures, but they are excited about sweeping and vacuuming. We will see how long that lasts!

Nice Positive Thoughts..

I found this saying & I love it- so I put it nicely together to hang at my desk at work and home!

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.

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