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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Easter potatoes

The kids and I made, quite possibly, the easiest Easter-themed craft yesterday. I'm sharing it with you because it's cheap, easy, fun and kids of all ages can do it.

We decorated our Easter eggs first and decided to add this quick project because our kitchen table was already covered in newspaper and the kids were covered in egg dye. "Why not add more messy fun to the mix?" I said.

All you need is a potato, some paper, paintbrushes and paint (I recommend a non-toxic tempera paint for little kids).

Just cut a potato in half. A potato of any size or type will do.

Squeeze some paint onto a paper plate or dish.

Give each kid a paint brush and let them do their thing :) Polka dots and stripes are easy. 

You could also try a tie-dye effect, faces or designs. Or  adults could carve their potatoes (see Pinterest for ideas) with a small knife or pumpkin carving tool to create more detailed prints.

Chloe enjoyed painting the outside of her potato too :)


Liam's first potato print. Testing it out.


Making a whole bunch of them.

And hand-printing a bit.

They used up all of the paint I gave them.

And here are the results -

We let them dry, then cut out our favorite ones to send to family as Easter cards -



And a photo of the Easter eggs we dyed. We did shimmery ones this year -


If anyone else tries this out please share a photo of them in the comments section below.
We'd love to see them!


And some prior Easter crafts I've done with my kids:




Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Greetings

Just hopping on here quick to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas!





Love you all -
Erin, Matt, Liam and Chloe

Monday, January 12, 2015

Photos from Christmas 2014 - Round 1


It's been a while since I last wrote on here! 

First I want to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :) I hope that each of your hearts was filled with love and joy over the holidays. And for those whose hearts may have been aching (the loss of a loved one, or dealing with financial strain, etc) I hope that the New Year wraps you in a big fuzzy blanket of peace and grants you the new beginnings you need :)
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I intended on writing about some some pre-Christmas crafts that Liam and Chloe worked on, some photos of our indoor and outdoor Christmas decorations, some gifts that I made, etc....but I just didn't find the time because:

a) Taking care of two kids every day makes for some busy times! Nurturing them and loving them and teaching them, all the while trying to put up and decorate the Christmas tree/buy and wrap gifts for family/create photo calendars & Christmas cards/prepare food & bake sweets/clean the house for guests/etc just made it that much harder to find time to do anything extra, such as monkey around on my blog.

b) We were traveling around quite a bit prior to/during/after Christmas. It went something like this:
Matt's sister arrived from CA the week before Christmas and stayed with us for a couple of nights.
Then we hosted Matt's cousins at our house for our annual "Cousins Xmas". Then on the weekend (prior to Christmas) we traveled to Matt's parents' house for a couple of days and celebrated with his family. On Christmas Eve we visited Matt's parents again & then went to my mom's house, then back to our house later that night. Woke up Christmas morning with our kids at our house. Went to my aunt's house that afternoon/evening. Came back to our house. Went to my mom's house the next morning-Saturday. We got back home the Saturday after Christmas, only for Chloe to get sick that Sunday night.

and c)  I've been feeling yuck-o for the last two weeks. It started with the flu a couple of weeks ago (I had uncontrollable chills and stabbing body pains for two days). Then it turned into a lingering fever and cold. Then the cough set in. And that's where I'm at now. I have an annoying won't-go-away cough & zero energy. It also hit up Chloe, Liam and Matt, but in different ways.

I think we're finally digging ourselves out of the sick cave & heading towards normal again. Thus why I am finally sitting down to view photos I took from Christmas and blog about it! 

I took way too many a ton of photos, so I'll share these with you first,  then share some more in a few days. Enjoy :)


Sweet little Chloe's first Christmas!


I love Liam with his shirt off! And Chloe's face was in "I'm going to start crying
in 1/2 of a second" mode...


Liam was a PRO at helping decorate the tree this year!
And Chloe loved watching her brother do the work.


I love getting Christmas cards in the mail.


You can never have too many holiday-themed books laying around for the kiddos...


Here are the cutout cookies that Liam and I made together.


Christmas is not complete in our house without a jar of pickled eggs (made by Matt).


Liam's elf named "Magic Man"


The footprint print that Liam made last year.


Gifts, wrapped and ready


We hosted a lumberjack-themed Cousins' Christmas party.


Flannel, flannel everywhere...



To be continued....

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Almost 4 months old

Chloe was born almost four months ago already! Where did the time go? Seriously.

She has changed so much already. She's rolling from back to tummy, and from tummy to back. She'll giggle and even laugh if you tickle her in just the right spots. She has this cute little smile where her mouth turns up more to the right side. She definitely has Matt's chin and my eyebrows. She loves staring at her brother and he can get her to smile more than Matt or I. She sleeps really good (I nurse her only once throughout the night now, usually between 3:00 and 5:00am). And she farts and poops like a grown man. She keeps us on our toes and her unique little personality is really starting to shine. We love her so much.

I meant to post some of the photos my friend Sarah (www.sarahdohertyphotography.com) took sooner than this. But I guess later is better than never, right? She took these photos when Chloe was just two weeks old:




 She caught her smiling in this photo :)




 She looks so much like Liam when he was 2-weeks old






And here is the birth announcement I made, in case you didn't see it:





Thank you, Sarah, for taking such memorable photos of our little peanut :)

To see more of Sarah's photography, visit her website: www.sarahdohertyphotography.com