Crafts

Maibel and I have been getting REALLY excited for Halloween time so we can start doing some Halloween crafts. We have quit a few picked out to do and I don't think I can wait any longer to start them, so we may be starting some of them today! But, we have been working on a few other crafts that we wanted to share with you.

First is Maibel's sock puppet. She is extremely proud of this and it is SO cute, I had to share it with everyone.

Next is Maibel's wood bears she painted. The rainbow one is named "Rainbow" and sits by her alarm clock. The pink one is named "Little Kari" and has to be in Kari's lap at all times (not at night though because Kari has to sleep with Mai every night.) I thought that fact that she wanted to paint one like Kari was very creative and smart. She's so cute.

Next is strickly for Rhonda. Here is my first attempt at those flowers we were wanting to make. I found this adorable fabric at Wal-Mart! The more I make, the better they turn out. These were my first so they really aren't that great. For the rest of you, here is an awesome tutorial on how to make these.

We have been working on a lot of hair bows/hair flowers but that would have to be a whole other post because I have been making WAY too many. Also, have been making tons of toys/treats for Hermes. I should start taking pics of some of those too. 

I did cover a shoe box with paper to hide all our computer cords. It's not the cutest thing but SO SO much better than all those ugly cords every where.

And This really is just so Hariella can see it. ( it comes off very easily if you don't want it anymore when you get home.)

The Frog and The Book

So this morning Maibel decided to write a book. It is a book about the seasons and yes, she did it ALL on her own. It is SO cute and she is extremely proud. She keeps telling me "I just can't believe I wrote my first book."

Hermes has this stuffed animal frog that he loves! It is suppose to look something like this but its a well loved toy and so no longer looks even close to this.

He carries it around all the time. He was watching out the front window when Brent came home from work(like he always does, if you can't tell by the nose prints all over my window) and when he left, he left the frog sitting there. It was so cute I had to share it with you!

First Day of School

Well, its official. Maibel has started Kindergarten.

Last night, when I was tucking her in, I read her a story from the Friend and it was about a boy who had to start in a new school and he didn't have any friends. Some kids were not very nice to him and I started crying thinking about Mai having kids not be nice to her!! But the little boy went home and told his mom he had no friends so they decided to start praying about it. They prayed for a long time and eventually the little boy had made lots of friends. But after the story, when Maibel was saying her prayers, she prayed that she could find someone at school who didn't have any friends and she could be their friend. So sweet!

She was so excited that she woke up at 4 a.m. and told me she couldn't sleep anymore. We had her outfit all picked out yesterday and waiting for her this morning on the foot of her bed. Her backpack was packed and waiting by the front door. We even had her hair bows picked out and waiting by the brush and comb in the bathroom. I made my mom walk with me to drop her off so that I didn't have to do it alone. We walked to school and they had a little red carpet set up for for the kids to walk up to the door on. Then they got to say their name into a microphone and go on in the school. We have quite a few kids from our ward in her class so that was good. We got her name tag on her, found her cubby and put her backpack in it and then she sat with her class and I left. It was kinda sad!!

I know I haven't posted very much this summer, so I thought I would just post a few pics of our summer!