Lenten Promises

This year we all gave up different things.  Chris gave up fast food/eating out, I gave up Starbucks, and the girls are by association giving those things up too.  Gianna is going to try to be more cheerful and helpful about picking up her toys or other chores when asked.  I found this cool "lenten map" from catholic icing along with the stations of the cross from one of the posts from that blog. From those 2 things I made a little lenten folder for each of them. We are planning to go to Stations of the Cross as much as possible and they can bring their folders with them to point to each station.

Of course I turned this all educational and had her match numbers to the station.  She loves to glue.

Coloring her lenten map.  Love the tongue sticking out!

Proud of her map!

Barbies

Thats pretty much all we did this weekend- play with Barbies.  Uncle Tim gave the girls the whole princess babrbie set- for Christmas.  So adding the 9 princesses to our 2 we have a grand total of 11 barbies.  That means 11 pairs of tiny shoes and 11 tiny crowns that are constantly coming off and need to be put back on.  Its all good fun though.  Yeah.  Definitely a Barbie weekend.  Sorry Chris!

Lovely Weekend

We got to see family, go to a birthday party, and I went to a consignment sale.  I had Monday off so I took half the day to drop off my resume at some schools around town.  Then I was home for nap and to take the girls to the park.  Spring Break is in 3 weeks!  I think I can I think I can...

Showing off their new dresses!

Ice Skating

So after Chris got off work on Saturday, we took the girls ice skating. 

This is what G did most of the time.

It was quite the workout for our backs.  Still sore!

Thinking about getting them into lessons next season- G was on her own pretty quick!

Getting Ready for Valentine's Day

Chris had to work Saturday morning, so we got ready for Valentine's Day.

First, we wrote down all the names on our valentine's bags.

Then we pulled these out of the fridge (we made them the night before)

 

And carefully counted out 10 yummy cookies for each friend.

Then we painted with Valentine's colors and used sponge hearts.  Fun!

10 Years!

10 years ago this week, Chris asked me if we could "make it official."  He sent me flowers!

This weekend we went ice skating and had a bottle of chianti, much like our first "date" back in Rome.

Phone Girls

Bulletin Boards

Last year I made a bulletin board for the teacher I was subbing for, so I did it again this year!  I had all my students write a poem to the baby, and then one of my parents created this board. 

Pretty sweet, right?

Crazy Sock Day

Gianna was super excited to wear my toe socks and flip flops.

Elia was not excited at all.  (I had also just done her hair and she wasn't happy about that either.)

Solar System Artwork

Ah, my favorite, the soar system.  Groundhog is in there too.

Elia made the night/day circle thing and the hanger with the stars.