Ella's Preschool Holiday Program

Good Morning! I am moving extra slow today due to some sick kiddos around here. Ella woke up in the middle of the night crouping really bad and in the middle of her coughing fit she threw up in her bed :( We had to take her outside to breathe in some cold air and thankfully we had an extra steroid at home to give her because she was having difficulty breathing. I cannot wait for croup to be a distant memory! Then our sweet Miss A spiked a fever yesterday and was not feeling good at all. She was up most of the night as well. Here's hoping my girls feel better today!

Anyway, a few weeks ago Ella had her first school holiday performance and I couldn't not document it on the blog.

Leading up to the day, Ella would come home singing all the songs, some Brayden even remembered from when he was in preschool. I just knew Ella's perfomance would be night and day compared to Brayden's - it's just their personalities.  When Brayden was in 3yr preschool, he covered his eyes the entire time during the holiday show and even shed a few tears. They had to put him at the end of the line so he could be near the teachers.  Ella was front and center of the audience.

I made sure to curl her hair that day before we left and she looked so beautiful! (and so grown up!) She wasn't nervous at all once we got there and we took our seats to watch. My Mom and MIL came to watch too - Rick wasn't able to get off work but I video'd the entire thing.

I'll let the pictures do the talking. I was so proud of my girl, she did great!!

 

 

 

*linking up with Home of Malones

Lego Travel Box {DIY}

Happy Hump Day!

A few years ago I made a lego travel box for Brayden and then with our move it got lost (aka my husband probably threw it out). For Christmas I knew I wanted to make him another one as well as one for Ella. The plan is to keep the boxes in the car so they can have something to do while we're driving.

Making these travel boxes is so easy, today I'm going to show you how

First you need an unfinished wood box - I found mine at Hobby Lobby and bought the medium size ones. (don't forget to use their 40% coupon!)

Next step is to paint whatever color you would like

I purchased these lego baseplates and cut them using regular scissors to fit on the top of the box (tip: regular legos and lego duplos work on standard baseplates)

I used superglue to secure the baseplates.

For a little extra, I used stickers I had on hand to put my kids' names on the back of the boxes.

Grab some legos and have at it! So easy, right!?

I hope you give this a try, my kids LOVED them when they opened them on Christmas and have been using them since.

*linking up with Jessi's Design

Winter Break Week 1 + NYE

Happy Tuesday Friends! It seems like it's been forever since I've visited this little space of mine. It has been sooooo nice soaking up time with my family.

We still have a week of winter break over here but today I'm recapping the first half of it along with NYE.

The beginning of break started with Christmas - you can see that recap here

After Christmas we did lots of lounging around. Seriously I haven't sat around and done nothing in forever and it's been awesome. We watched tons of movies, did puzzles, played board games, played with new toys and did more laying around.







We took the kids to a fun arcade in our mall and they had a blast.

We went on a playdate to this fun placed called Firezone. They just happened to have Princess Repunzel there and Legoland that day

Big brother being a good sport (but deep down loving it!)

Rick and I snuck in 2 dates - one at night to a tapas restaurant (so yummy!) and the next was a day date to Hooters (my favorite) and then to the mall and some other stores. It was nice to look around without 3 crazies by our sides

Saturday brought NYE - we decided to stay home and my BIL & SIL and nieces came over. We made dinner and hung out. We played foosball, left right center, and this gross mystery jelly belly game. The kids were loving it!

My in laws stopped by before their party, the kids were happy to see them!





It's not NYE unless someone gets a motorized toy car stuck in their hair! I'm happy to report they got it out without having to chop any hair off :)















Our friends whose parents live in our neighborhood stopped by for a little and the kids were happy to have more playmates!

Earlier in the day I ran to Party City to get this giant balloon bag that you fill up for a balloon drop. Thanks to our compressor it only took Rick and I 15 minutes to fill it up. The kids loved this!

Everyone left a little after 10 and we hung out a little while more then it was time to put the crazed kids to bed. They loved staying up so late!

Me and the hubby laying on the couch almost making it until midnight

New Years Day we did pretty much nothing and it was awesome. We did manage to get outside for a walk/scooter/bike ride and took the kids to the park. Avery insisted on riding Ella's old bike so Rick lowered the seat for her and off we went. Except girlfriend doesn't understand yet how to peddle so we just switched off pushing her and she was loving it.

Yesterday was Rick's last day home for vaca so we played, went out to lunch and watched a movie.





Today we are going to be crafting and hanging out (I should probably get my wifely/mommy duties back in check as well) and later we are all going to see Sing.

Hope everyone enjoys their day!



*linking up with B Loved Boston & Our Pretty Little Girls