April, felt like a REALLY long month. Just like March! Weird. In April: 1. Nathan finally started getting himself undressed and dressed in the morning, at night, and for baths. He is probably the LAST 5 year old to do this, but… finally, we got there by doing a sticker chart. Autumn’s sticker chart is… >> View Post
Archives for April 2012
Amish Friendship Bread, Give it a Try!
I am sure a lot of you have heard about Amish Friendship Bread, and have given it a whirl. I had heard about it, but had received a starter until just recently when a friend at work brought me in one. I was excited, but also a little worried I’d screw it up. Here are… >> View Post
Spring Grass
While at Lowes for one of the Build and Grows, I saw these… little grass growing kits. Of course, I told the Easter bunny to snatch some of these for the kids Easter baskets. Aren’t they super cute? So, we filled the little pots up with dirt. Didn’t take much. And, planted the seeds. The… >> View Post
Breaking Open the Piggy Banks
I have noticed the kids piggy banks have been full, and I wanted to take them to the bank so they could see just how much all the change in their piggy banks was worth. We went to my parents bank, because they only charge 2% to use their coin counting machine, and… we only… >> View Post
Pictures of Nathan and Autumn at Forest Park at the Grand Basin
Forest Park is a huge park in St. Louis that houses a lot of trails, Turtle Park, the Zoo, History Museum, Jewel Box, Art Museum, etc. Its HUGE, and so old and beautiful. This is a photo I took of the art museum through a tree, using some of my techniques I learned in my… >> View Post
Jill’s Maternity Photos
Jill is a girl I work with, and she is expecting her second child later this summer. She has a daughter that is a little younger then Nathan, but she had the sniffles so she couldn’t come along for the photo session. Robbie, another lady I work with, enjoys taking photos like I do, so… >> View Post
Art Museum – Kids Art Sundays
My work gave out free passes for a photography exhibit entitled An Orchestrated Vision which of course I lost the coupon for and had to pay full price but at least the kids were free. I went with a couple of my coworkers, and we planned to take some photos of Jill afterwards in beautiful… >> View Post
St. Louis Go! Half Marathon… yeah, yeah, chabang!
And, I finished!!! Distance: Half Marathon – 13.1 MilesChip Time: 2:29:09Overall Place: 5868 / 8736Gender Place: 2976 / 5182Division Place: 512 / 8656Mi: 1:04:5511Mi: 2:03:46 One of my goals for myself this year was to run a half marathon, and so I tortured myself through 12 weeks of Nike+ training… The training had mostly 3… >> View Post
Nathan’s 2012 Spring School Photo
Nathan’s school does photos every Fall and Spring, but I only buy the Fall photos because I want the photos to be from the same time each year for whenever I get time to do a grade school photo collage. NORMALLY, we buy the photos before we even see them, but this time they let… >> View Post
Cardinal’s Opening Day
I have worked at the same place for almost 9 years… I used to complain about how I never won nuttin’. I didn’t! But, this year… I won CARDINALS OPENING DAY TICKETS! The weather was pretty cruddy, cold and rainy. The kind of weather that just makes me want to go home and crawl under… >> View Post
12 Days Before Easter – Part 3 of 3
On Day 4 I gave the kids Time Coupons. Read the story in Mark 10 about how Jesus loved the Children. How do we think Jesus showed it? I then asked them how they would like me to show them how much I love and value my time I spend with them. I then had… >> View Post
12 Days Before Easter – Part 2 of 3
I can’t believe I haven’t finished this blog post up yet! Its been SO busy around here. On the 8th Day before Easter I let Nathan open the egg. Inside he found a bar of soap (of course, Lush’s Rock Star soap! I got a tiny sliver off of it for this…) We talked about… >> View Post