Our Crafty December....so far

I dont have a whole lot of time to write a nice long blog, so i'll start with showing the crafts we have been up to this last week.  Its kinda hard to find time to do these when Ella is sleeping AND Julia is home.  So sometimes, its just Madisen, then Ella when she wakes up, and then Julia later after she gets home.  Sometimes i dont even want to do ONE craft, let alone the same craft 3 times in one day! lol  But i make myself so i have some of these things to look back at, or cry at someday :)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

So one of the crafts i did, was for me :)  I saw this on Pinterest.  The person's was better, but it linked to Etsy and wanted $24 dollars.  I was trying to create things i already had at my house, on a budget here people!!  And i had choose gray and the wedding date to be light green, but my Ink in my printer is being weird and wouldnt print the green.  So i went with pink.  Its my husbands birthday, mine, our wedding date, and our kids birthdays.  

Ella got moved to the table, since we need the high chair for Aubrey soon.  Ella thinks she is soooo big now.  I do have to admit that i have put her back in the high chair for breakfast and lunch sometimes, its easier! :)

Cutting out circles

Cutting her circles out

There is two pieces of paper here.  The girls made their own snowman, and cut them out and glued them onto paper.  This kept them busy for awhile!  Julia's is on top, she added clouds to hers.  Madisen's is the bottom, didnt she do great on cutting her circles and the snowman arms?!! :)

Made this the other night as a dessert for the kids.  They loved it!!  We didnt have ice cream, but this was healthier anyways :)

By Madie

Julia added snowflakes to hers

The other day i had them draw a Merry Christmas picture.  Madie draws her durning the nap time of the others and while Julia is at school.  It kinda funny that Julia's usually look pretty similar to what Madie chose to draw.  Which is true on almost everything she makes while Julia is at school lol.

100 squats by the 31st!

Decided to join a Squat-a-thon this month.  Someone posted it on facebook so i was like, why not? lol  Then i posted it.  So a few of my friends, including my mom, are going to do it with me this month.  Woohoo!! 

4 months old!

Aubrey turned 4 months old yesterday!!!  Shes getting big!!  Which also mean that tomorrow, Ella will be 21 months old.  Time is flying!  I cant believe in a few months i'll have a 7, 5, and a 2 year old.  Plus a 7 month old! 

I had to cut a lot of little hand prints out!

All my girls little hands :)

Instead of 4 wreaths, i made it into ONE!

My almost finished project!

The wreath looks good i think!  I have been debating on changing the little hand prints that are acting as the bow of the wreath to a different color.  Ive gotten the suggestion for White, i think i'll go with that.  Thank you Darlene! :)

Our wall Christmas Tree

The girls adding Ornaments

Yes we are going to get a REAL tree too!! lol  I just thought about this idea yesterday and went with it!  My idea was to have this tree on the wall and the girls would make ornaments to hang on it.  They made like 5 or something yesterday, and then i decided instead of trying to make a ton right then, why not make it more of a game that goes all month long.  So i told them they could each make an ornament every day and hang (stick) on the tree.  And by Christmas Day, they would have each made 25!! Not including the ones they made the day i put it up.  They are so excited!!  We are also excited to find out that my Nana is sending the older girls an advent calendar.  She tends to get them one every year and they so look forward to it!  So they were over joyed when i told them Nana is sending them one this year.  Julia was just asking about when we were going to go get one this year.  Now i dont have to!!  Thanks Nana!! You rock!!

On top of all the other things we are managing to do and keep up on this month,  we have our Elf on the Shelf too!  This is where he decided to be this morning when the girls woke up :)  I always like this idea until a week or two into december and then im like, Why did i start this?? lol  Sometimes i forget to move him until the am and have to hurry...or i'll remember right as im falling alseep. haha

Ok i smell a dirty diaper that needs changing.  Thanks Aubrey! lol  
Until next time....