Holiday Fun

How to make your own Christmas Wreath and other Holiday Happenings

by Jennie December 3, 2012

sharon woods holiday in lights

I LOVE this time of year and I have REALLY been feeling the Christmas spirit! I blogged last week about how to get FREE pictures with Santa and have some holiday fun on the cheap. This past weekend we had some more Christmas fun! We went to the Sharon Woods Holiday in Lights which was […]

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Holiday Fun at Bass Pro Shop

by Jennie November 27, 2012

bass pro shop santa land

We made a bucket list of local places we wanted to check out for the Holidays. We probably won’t get to them all, but it was fun sitting down with Cody and making the list! We looked up activities in the Family Fun Magazine, and the websites listed on our Family Fun Calendar Page (scroll […]

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Halloween Crafts, Parties and FUN

by Jennie October 24, 2012

Spider Web Craft

This time a year is a little confusing to me because we teach our kids not to talk to strangers or take anything from them and to watch what food they put into their bodies and then here comes good ole’ Halloween…. you tell them to do the COMPLETE opposite! Oh well, it is a […]

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Keeping the Kiddos Occupied

by Jennie July 5, 2012

tub cleaned

I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July! We normally celebrate most of our holidays in Cumberland, but the hubs couldn’t take more time off work after spending 10 days at the beach (I will post more on this next week)! It threw us for a loop that we were actually at home so we really […]

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Happy Father’s Day!!!

by Jennie June 18, 2012

warehouse b

We had our first day at home, all day,  in what seems like forever! It was wonderful! The hubs has undertaken a HUGE project in our back yard (which I will post about at some point!) so when he is not at work,  he is working on that! I have been crazy busy too and […]

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Fun Easter Ideas

by Jennie April 9, 2012

easter fair

We had a GREAT Easter weekend! We had tons of fun celebrating and now I am ready for a really, really long nap!!!! I am exhausted! Friday was my birthday so a friend came over and brought me lunch, the kids played outside while we sat in the sun (did I mention I love this […]

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Valentine’s Day Food Craft

by Jennie February 17, 2012

valentine goodies

  We went to a few V-Day Parties and so we made some treat bags with valentine cards, suckers, bow and arrow gummy heart and pretzel sticks (idea from Family Fun magazine), and stickers. You can see the EASY how to in the picture above. When we got home the hubs had sent a package […]

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Celebrating the Christmas Season

by Jennie December 8, 2011

Horse Parade

We have been having a lot of fun this year for Christmas. As kids get older, they get more into everything and it makes it SO much fun!! We went to the Horse Parade in downtown Lebanon. I would highly recommend this for next year. Cody and Luke loved watching the horses and carriages in […]

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Use Up Those Thanksgiving Day Leftovers

by Jennie December 2, 2011

chicken broth

We had Thanksgiving at our new house this year so we had a lot of leftovers to go through! You really can only eat turkey, stuffing, casseroles etc. so long before you get sick of it! We ate through everything but the turkey and I wanted to try and get creative with what we had […]

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Sweet Potato Fries

by Jennie November 24, 2011

Sweet potato fries

Happy Turkey Day!!! I am celebrating this morning by running the 10k turkey trot…. I may be having a car come and wheel me away because, although I am ashamed to admit it, I haven’t trained at all for this race. Having run a 10k before I know how brutal it can be so I […]

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Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

by Jennie November 2, 2011

Candy Corn Sugar Cookies

We had a pretty exciting weekend. First, we went to Disney on Ice which was amazing!! Me, Cody and Daddy went so it was a nice treat for Cody to get some one on one time with us and get some special Cody time :) He has been doing such a good job as a […]

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Jazz up those Pumpkin Seeds

by Jennie October 31, 2011

happy halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!   We carved our pumpkin friday night and while daddy was carving, Cody and I separated all the seeds so we could bake and eat them. This was a tradition at Steve’s house growing up, but I had never tried them before. I have a subscription to Food Network Magazine which is da […]

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