Here is my new game that my grand kids love to play, this is the Easter version of “Don’t Eat Pete!” It is called Don’t Eat Hoppy! This is a fun game for FHE or for a school class party, (just print multiple game boards), even adults can get in on the fun with this game!
This game board is now available in pdf format in my shop:
Yesterday I did a tutorial on how to make the fringed fleece blankets and I was able to get eight of these made and ready for delivery to a local hospital. We are doing this project because one of my granddaughters was recently in the hospital and she received a blanket like this and it made her so happy that I decided to pay it forward to some other sick children.
On Sunday afternoon after we had dinner, I talked all of the girls into helping me tie up the blankets to get them ready for delivery to the hospital. As you know, my motto is that ribbon makes everything cuter! So we tied up the blankets with different colored ribbons. We have 4 boy blankets and 4 girl blankets ready to go!
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I attended a conference last weekend called Story@Home. It was held in Salt Lake City at the Conference center and at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was a family history, story telling and blogging conference. I learned a ton of new things and I had a great time. One of my cute DIL’s went with me and we had a good time together.
The main speaker that I wanted to see was Leigh Anne, from Your Homebased Mom. She has a really fun blog and I learned more from her, hands down, than from any of the other classes that I attended! Her focus was on blogging your passion and love what you do. She helped me as a fairly new blogger to have a better perspective of what to expect in following my blogging dreams. She is so cute and down to earth and realistic and I just really seem to relate to her!
Yesterday I told you that I would show you the project that I came home with from The Wood Connection Store. So drum roll please: Ta…Dah!
I got these cute wood letters and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. I have a shelf in my living room and I wanted to put something cute on it. We had new family pictures taken a couple of days ago, so I want to put some new pictures in this room and they will go perfect now!
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I am excited to tell you about a conference that I am going to attend this weekend. It is called Story@Home 2012. It is being held in Salt Lake City, UT at Temple square.
This is the description of the conference:
“No matter how you tell your stories – through your family history, at your child’s bedside, on your blog, or from a stage – your stories matter. Join us for a conference that will change the way you see your stories and the world, and help you connect in new ways with those you cherish most.
Workshops and performances by award-winning storytellers, performers and speakers, will help you explore ways to use the power of story in your home. You’ll be able to record your own story, start on some research to learn more about your family’s history, get started on a blog and learn how to tell your story through social media.”
If you are anywhere in the area, there are still tickets available here: Story@Home. One of the speakers is Leigh Anne from your homebased mom. She has a fun blog that I have followed for a long time, so I am excited to get to meet her and to listen to her class!
If any of you are attending, please come and say hi if you see me. I would love to meet you!
This month the message is titled “Daughters in My Kingdom” and it has a great message about how we are daughters of our Father in Heaven. He knows us, loves us, and has a plan for us.
How wonderful the world would be if everyone knew just this one eternal principle! So my handout this month is titled: “Lucky Me – I know:”
I went to visit one of my cute little granddaughters in the hospital. She has been there for a few days and she has been a little angel during her stay. They have poked and prodded and checked and helped her and she just continues to keep her sweet smile! While I visited with her and her daddy one afternoon, we ate lunch, went for a walk in the wagon while the nurses changed her bedding, we blew bubbles and played with her magnetic princess paper dolls! It was great!
Today I would like to do something that I have not done before and that is to do a tribute to my dear hubby. These are the beautiful roses that he sent to the house, they smell sooo good and they look so beautiful. When they arrived they were these tight little buds and they have opened up and released the most beautiful scent!
We had red roses for our wedding almost 36 years ago and I still love them today!
For our Super Bowl dinner last night I had all the fixings for sandwiches and the girls brought chips and bean dip, a relish plate with a yummy ranch dip from Landee See Landee Do and bruchetta. I was in charge of dessert, which I have not been in charge of for a long time, so I asked my husband what he wanted me to make and these brownies were at his request. They are a family favorite and they make a large batch!
I cut them into footballs for the Super Bowl.
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I saw this idea the other day when I was out shopping for things for our princess party and I fell in love with it. So I decided to make one for me, and one to share with you!
I tend two of my grandchildren a couple of times a week and the 6 year old is just starting to read and she laughed and laughed when she figured out what I had written. For some reason it really tickled her funny bone. I thought this might be fun to write something different every day.
You will need a frame with a glass front and a dry erase marker.
I did mine in an 8 x 10 frame, but you can use whatever size you wish. You do not want to go too small because then there is not a whole lot of room to write the “because”s. You will need to print it off;
To print, just right click and go to copy. Open your favorite program like Word or a Presentations program, right click again and go to paste.
Insert print into your frame, tie a cute ribbon around the frame and tie the marker onto the frame so that anyone can write their special message.
Place it where everyone will see it…like in the middle of all these goodies on the kitchen counter! :)
Have fun with this and let your imagination and your gratitude go wild!
