So, here I was convinced that David’s Crabapple Tree would not survive after being planted only a few days before we had our first frost and then snow. We didn’t even water it except for when it was planted.

Now here it is Spring and that little tree is starting to have leaves sprout out all up and down it’s little trunk. Can you even call it a truck at this point? I mean, it’s so tiny.

Anyway, David has to inspect his little tree every day to see how it’s growing. He’s excited about getting to see the tree he planted grow. That makes me happy!

Yesterday we had our Easter Egg Hunt at church and the Easter bunny made an appearance there. As you can see Brooke was not too sure about sitting in the Easter bunny’s lap.

David with the Easter Bunny

Brooke with the Easter Bunny

The kids had a blast hunting eggs and playing on the inflatable bouncy castle and slide. Now my problem is keeping them out of all the candy that was in the eggs.

David got another 100% report card this nine weeks and got a ribbon at his award’s ceremony today at school. We took him to Logan’s Roadhouse for supper to celebrate since he loves eating at “the peanut place.”

We’re so proud of our little man!!

Last Thursday, we went to David’s award’s ceremony at school. We didn’t know for sure if he would be getting an award or not, but I thought he probably would since he got 100% on his report card. I took some pictures, unfortunately the lighting was not very good so the pictures are not as clear as I’d like.

In this photo, you can find David on the far left side of the group of kids lined up across the front. He has on a green jacket.

This is a picture of the ribbon he got. Just in case you can’t read it, it says, “Roaring with 100%…Vinemont Elementary School.”

We are so proud of our little man.

Every now and then, we end up eating a bowl of cereal for supper. Well, tonight was one of those nights. I took out all the cereal and placed them on the counter for the kids to choose which ones they wanted to eat.

Upon David’s inspection of each cereal, he advised me that he didn’t want those Frosted Flakes because it isn’t a good cereal. I proceeded to tell him that not only is it good cereal but it’s a kid’s cereal because it has Tony the Tiger on the box.

David’s response was simply that he didn’t want it because it has a tiger on the cover and the box is Auburn colors.

What else needs to be said here?

Okay, so I intended on doing this little project before Thanksgiving but I just didn’t get it all together to it then. It’s a collage of photos of things in our lives we are thankful for. I decided it was still a good craft to do even after Thanksgiving because we should be thankful all year round not just on a day designated as a day of thanksgiving.

While David was at school I cut a bunch of pictures out of my old magazines of things I thought the kids would like. Of course, I couldn’t find two of all the same pictures so I decided, in order to minimize arguing over who got which picture, to let them take turns choosing pictures. Being the youngest, Brooke got to go first. It worked out beautifully. No arguing! Can you believe that?

I snapped a photo while they were working away, and then since David wouldn’t cooperate by holding his picture up for me to take a picture, I propped their papers on the couch and took a photo of the results. I thought they came out really good.

At the very least, the kids had a lot of fun picking out pictures of things they enjoy.

Yes. This morning we woke up to find snow outside.  The kids were adamant about getting out there to play in it. I can’t imagine why, but nevertheless they were very excited.

This was Brooke’s first time getting to play in snow. The last time it snowed she was too young to get out there. Bless her heart, she doesn’t have any gloves of her own so she had to use mine and needless to say, they were slightly large on her little hands. However, I’m fairly certain that Santa has been informed and will be helping her out in this area.

Anyway, I suppose you want to see pictures of the kids so I’ve added them below.

I also wanted to add this sweet message that Chuck left for the kids this morning before leaving to go to a meeting at church.

David just had Christmas pictures at school so I thought I’d put a sample out here for you to see. As you can see, he had recently lost several teeth, three to be exact. I guess we know what he wants to Christmas…his two front teeth.

As I was going through David’s backpack yesterday, I found a tree. Yes, a REAL little tree. Along with the tree came instructions for planting the Crabapple tree.

Really…when did they start sending trees home with students?!? I don’t remember getting one when I was in school.

Anyway, since the tree needed to be planted soon, we (or should I say, Chuck, David and Brooke) got to plant it in the front yard today.

It looks a little pitiful, so I’m not sure if it’ll make it, but I sure hope it does. I think it would be a nice addition to the yard. In addition, we might eventually get some apples for jelly or pies. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Here is David giving the tree a drink of water.

Even Brooke got to get in on the action by helping compact the soil around the tree.

So, here’s what we did…

Step One:

Collect all broken crayon pieces from the bottom of the crayon box and remove their paper.

Step Two:

Line a muffin pan with paper liners and put crayon pieces in each cup.

Step Three:

Place the muffin pan in the oven at 300˚ for about 10 minutes.

Step Four:

Let them cool for about 20 minutes and remove paper liners.

Step Five:

Duh!! Give them to the kids and let them color away.

Now, wasn’t that easy (and fun)?