Catch up/Project 14

We need to do a little catch up here we have had a busy last few days. Project 14 was sugar cookies! We had so much fun making them and decorating them with good friends. The kids actually only did one cookie each then were ready to get back to playing. Adult conversation while decorating what seemed like thousands of sugar cookies made for a good time by all. The sugar cookie recipe is one I got from my sister-in-law and they stay soft and fluffy, melt in your mouth and are amazing. I will have to ask her permission to share.



Cuting out


Decorate



Cookie anyone?




We had a fun time with Grandma and Grandpa and are looking forward to the other set coming tomorrow. My hubby and I will get to do a little Valentine/birthday getaway together while they are here!



We did an extra project today! I have been wanting to do this one since the beginning of the month but did not have the paint. Grandma brought us our paint. It was left at our house we moved from and I didn’t want to buy more when I had almost a full gallon on its way here. Good thing the boys’ foot prints are adorable and what makes the picture because I do not like my writing. This was done on an 8*10 canvas, I picked up a pack of two at WalMart for about 10 bucks!

Happy Valentines day!

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at ShannaMade!



Yesterday we had busy day wth project 13 valentine baking!!! Don’t really know if I can call it baking since all we did was no bake recipes. I just mentioned the word cookies and Remington wanted to do Cookie dough cookies…Yes a recipe that is eggless cookie dough not for baking but just eating the dough! This one is my favorite pinterest pin! So we made cookie dough heart bites. We also made another of our favorites some homade reeces and we attempted to make in them hearts it didn’t work as well but we did manage to get a few! This recipe calls for semi-sweet chocolate I use milk chocolate for mine. Recipe links are at bottom of page!


Big Helpers!


Cookie dough hearts


The peanut butter choclolate hearts and the rest of it the chocolate kept craking on us! Guess we let it chill to long.

Eggless cookie dough


No bake reeces peanut butter bars

Project 12- a lost privilege

I have been working on getting the last of few valentines photo/cards sent today. In the card for my husband’s grandparents I wanted to include a personal note as well so I got some card stock for the boys to draw a picture on for the card. Then the plan was to do this quick then our project. I got the crayons out and told Remington I needed to draw a picture on the card. He whined about needing a bigger one etc, etc so I decided to let them use stamps on it as well and stamp with hearts and love stamps. I went in my craft room to get the stamps and Remington was gone…he had gone upstairs. I grabbed all of the crayons and paper everything we would need and headed up. I get to the top of stairs and on the landing is green crayon scribbled on the floor, I walk into the kitchen green crayon all over the kitchen floor into the dining room and there is green crayon all over the kitchen table and still no sign of Remington (he is hiding in his room) So I told him he was going to stay in his room and stay on his bed in hopes that he would go to sleep. I let Winston make the card for Great Grandma and Grandpa. Remington stayed in his room for a while and was actually good about staying on the bed whining only once in a while that he wanted to come and the project and that he was going to be good now.(The story anytime he gets in trouble or doesn't get to do somthing.) It was already getting late and almost time for daddy to get home I decided to let him come out and not have to take a nap on the condition that he picks up his toys in the basement playroom. He whined some more about wanting to the project and tried to explain as best as I could to a four year old that sometimes because of our behavior we miss out privilges and sent down to clean up.

My boys need to get more sleep! They have been refusing to take naps and they wake up early. No matter how early or late they go to bed they wake up at the same time. They need to get more sleep as well as does mommy and everyone’s behavior is showing that! Hopefully we can get caught up soon and all be more cheerful with our company coming on Friday! My husband’s parents are coming this week and my parents the next so we are looking forward to that. My parents will be here for a little over a week so while they are here my husband and I will get to take a little valentine/my birthday vacation for a couple of days while they stay here with kiddos. We are looking forward to a much needed break. Here is to hoping we are up for a project of making some valentine sugar cookies within the next couple of days! I need to go check on how project clean up basment is coming along!

Project 11

My inspiration for project 10 came from a blog a good friend shared with me. Some you have probably heard of DanaMadeit well this the post from her blog that inspired this project I changed it a bit as I did not have little pom poms but I had cotton balls and we added a little glitter to the cotton balls to give them color (glitter always seems to be a big hit) TUTORIAL: Warm and Fuzzy Valentines. This was a perfect a project today because it was a low mess (except the glitter) and a pretty quick one since we didn’t have a lot of time today as we getting ready for company this evening.


Winston's heart


Remington's heart

Project 10/ GIVEAWAY WINNER

I feel like I have failed this year/month with valentine projects today was another break day for mamma but the kids still got do a project!!! Which today I was very grateful as the kids where again very unruly gain from the time they woke up! To top it off they woke up early, that did not help. So again i was grateful for MOPS meeting today where I got a break while someone else watched the kiddos while I got to spend some time with and socialize with other moms! The kids had fun with their projects as well as getting to play with some other kids!

Congratulations to Jamie Landwehr the ShannaMade comfort Pad winner. Enjoy your comfort pad Jamie!