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{family} A Spring Adventure List

Springtime is here and the weather is amazing.  Is it the same where you live?  I want to take full advantage because I know we’ll be sweating bullets before long, which is something this pregnant Mamma is not looking forward to!  So in an attempt to maximize our fun during this always-way-too-short season, I created a “Spring Adventure List”!  (You may recall the Fall Adventure List I made last October.)

Just like last fall, I’ve included a bunch of
things and I’m sure we’ll only be able to do portion of the list. But I’m
sure it will become a nice resource for our family to come back to year after
year…I’m thinking this is how family traditions are made, right?  Let me know if you have any must-do activities for spring!

2012 Spring Adventure List

Play soccer as a family in the backyard
Go through the boys’ clothing and toys and donate unused to charity
Make Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake Cupcakes
Plant flowers in the front yard
Go strawberry picking
Go on a hike
Have the boys each pick a vegetable to grow
Bake a peach cobbler
Visit the local Children’s Museum
Buy a new kiddie pool
Have a picnic outside
Make homemade popsicles
Discover a new park
Go peach picking
Enjoy a dinner date with the husband on the back deck (with candles!)
Search for rocks and then paint them
Go to the zoo
Buy seed for the bird feeder
Choose a new read-aloud chapter book for bedtime
Blow bubbles
Create a care package for a far-away friend
Make peach lemonade

{recording life} Project Life: Week Thirteen

The Mom Creative

Last week’s Project Life was a lot of fun to put together.  I finally bit the bullet and purchased the Variety Pack of new pages from Becky Higgins.  LOVE all of the different options!

Week 12 was the first week I used Design F, so I knew going into Week 13 that I wanted to include a lot of little pieces of life to fit all of the pockets.  Always a good idea to plan ahead of time, so I’m not scrambling for stuff at the end of the week!
A look at the whole week:

Left side.  I love how this design allows me to include so many little stories.  This week, I have a couple of M’s drawings, a grocery list, my latest pregnancy craving, and a few pictures trimmed to 3×4″. 

I also love to include little notes to my boys, so I have one to M explaining the back story of his drawing and a secret one for Baby #4.  I always loved those secret flap books growing up, so I imagine it will be fun when my kids are older to discover all of the secret letters I include in the Project Life books.

Right side.  A postcard sent to us from Disney, a little love note to D, and the rest of the page is all about M’s first soccer game.  Have I mentioned I’m a brand new soccer mom?

Insert for the week.  I used Design D and just cut off the two vertical 4×6’s at the end.  I wanted to include some of the fun projects we did for school (finally back to a little more structure!) and the back is full of sidewalk chalk pictures.  I’m loving printing the horizontal 3×4″ size!

Be sure to check out all of the other Project Life inspiration at the Mom Creative!
{More of my Project Life pages here}

{chit chat} What We’ve Been Up To…

Hello friends!  First, I want to thank all of you for your kind comments on our news.  We really are so thrilled and are already counting the months until we can hold our newest addition.  Six months to go, but I know the time is just going to fly by!

So recap time: the month of March was pretty much a blur for me.  Weeks of morning (and afternoon and evening) sickness left me in “survival mode” and I spent a lot of the day “supervising” from the couch.  But with three little guys in the house, life must still go on.  When I didn’t feel deathly ill, I was making up for lost time with my favorite dudes.  Here’s just a peek at what we were up to last month: 

Since I was barely functioning on most days, we did an open-ended version of school.  That’s a nice way of saying: I got out the craft supplies and they were left to their own devices.  Watercolors were a popular choice.   

A new privilege: computer time on PBS Kids.  If they’ve been good listeners that day, M gets to play for about 20 minutes (or until I remember to kick him off).  A BIG incentive for good behavior!

Well it happened.  After years and years of fighting it, we finally bit the bullet and bought a new-to-us minivan.  I never, ever thought I’d see this day, but now that it’s here, I have to admit: I kinda love it.  Only fellow minivan mammas will understand! 

The weather has just been gorgeous lately!  Highs in the 70s and low 80s for weeks now.  We’ve been spending as much time as possible outside before the inevitable heat wave pushes us back indoors.  Chalk has been a family favorite around these parts. 

And finally, just a cute picture of baby J, who isn’t really a baby anymore.  This kid is full of personality and sass, always keeping me on my toes.  His latest: I tried singing him a song, and he put his finger to his mouth and shushed me!  Well then…ahem.  Good thing I fall in love with him all over again when I watch him sleep.

How was March for you?

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