A City Life For Me

For the past couple of months I have been helping to plan a surprise baby shower for one of the ladies in our church.  I have been working on lots of goodies, and almost bursting to share them…but that would have spoiled the surprise.  So…since the baby shower was on Saturday, now I can spill the pictures! Mary’s baby #3 is a girl, and we know her name will be Mia, so we were able to do some personalized things for the shower.  I had fun reverting back to my girly side and doing everything in pink and polk-a-dots! The girls in the church donated their American Girl dolls to be used as centerpieces.  Ladies in the church crocheted booties in different colors and sizes to be used as decorations, but also to give to Mary for baby Mia. I used some 12x12 scrapbooking paper to draw a color contrast and tie in the polk-a-dots for the table decorations. These little dress napkins were inspired by this post on Pinterest .  The teen girls were going ...

 

Here are a few pictures from some of Elaine’s recent activities.  A couple of weeks ago our church had a family game night.  We rented the Salvation Army gym and played basketball, board games, and enjoyed the fellowship.  Elaine’s friend Havilah came with us.  Here they are playing a fishing game!   And here are all of the little girls… Me, Elaine, Faith, Havilah, and Selah Elaine helped me make a new wreath for the front door.  We used a Pinterest idea to cut strips of magazines and glue them on a circle.  It hasn’t fared so well in the rainy weather, but at least it’s bright & colorful.  We had fun making it, and it didn’t cost us anything!  Here is Elaine and her finished wreath!   If you want to make your own, follow these instructions , compliments of Childhood 101.

I can’t go wordless today, so how about a Wednesday Wow?  For the 2012 Republican nomination, “We Pick Rick!”  Today, my brother Wesley got to meet Rick Santorum at a rally held at The Crown College (where Wes is a student) in Tennessee.  When Rick finished the speech, Wesley got a picture with him!  Ben is going to be jealous when he finds out!

I found a Motherhood quote subway art on Pinterest the other day.  I really liked the quote, but it wasn’t a good enough image file to print full sheet.  So I decided to recreate it.  And I thought I would offer it as a free printable. To print, click the image to view it full size.  Then right click on the image and save it to your desktop (or another location which you will remember).  Now you have the .jpg image which you can print.  If you choose to use this on your own blog, please link back here. 8x10: 5x7:

I found this picture on Pinterest of a boy’s bedroom wall. Ben and I decided it was the perfect definition of Nolan!  We often refer to him as “the noise with dirt on it.”  Recently, it has taken on a new meaning.  Because Nolan’s new best friend is the vacuum – and it is literally noise with dirt in it! Really - Nolan is in L.O.V.E. with the vacuum cleaner.  He absolutely goes crazy when you turn it on!  If you turn your back for a moment, Nolan crawls as fast as he can to the hallway, where the vacuum lives.  He crawls up on it, laughs to it, and gets downright excited. So…the last couple of times that I have vacuumed the house, I have left the vacuum in the floor for Nolan to explore.  Today he played with it for over an hour.  Seriously.  Happy, laughing, excited.  The whole time. So it is decided.  When Nolan grows up, he wants to vacuum.  And I love my little dirty noise!

A while back I printed several Bible verses on half-sheet sized papers to teach Elaine.  For each verse I added a clip art picture to help her remember the verse…you know…because she can’t read yet!   I laminated the pages, and added two binder rings so it would function as a book.  As I come across other verses that she should learn, or that can be shortened to just a few words, we add to the book.  Elaine has been learning very well!  The pictures help her remember, but I am surprised at how well she knows the verses.  We turned on the video camera today so you could join us in our memory time.  She was a little mesmerized by the camera and didn’t do as well as she usually does, but I think you will still be impressed!