My sisters, me, my mom and my grandmother on Mother's Day 2010.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
My First Cookie Bouquet
I recently tried my hand at making a cookie bouquet. I thought I would share what I did with a little tutorial, since I think it turned out pretty cute.
I used a terra cotta pot and painted it dark brown.
I used a terra cotta pot and painted it dark brown.
I planted a box-lid of rye grass about 2 weeks ago and had my helpful, hubby cut out a circle of it to put in the pot. I put a square of newspaper on the bottom and then filled it with dirt. Then I put the circle of grass on top.
I made sugar cookies in the shape of tulips using a cookie cutter and used the long cookie sucker sticks. I had never made them before so I just kind of guessed at how to do it. I cut out the dough and then put the stick on the cookie sheet and then put the tulip on the end of the stick where it was positioned halfway up the cookie. then I kind of flattened it a bit on to the stick. Then I just baked them normally.
I made the cookie bouquet as a way to display the sugar cookies that I made for a friends baby shower. The cookies were the guest favors. So I had a lot of cookies, I think 6 dozen. I was making cupcakes for this shower also and I was a little overwhelmed with all I had going on. Thank goodness for helpful friends! When it came time for icing them I had helping hands and it went by fast. We used a sugar cookie icing recipe which I found HERE that I love! It is super easy to make and you can just spread it on and it smoothes itself out and hardens overnight!
The next morning I iced on the details with regular decorators icing, it's a recipe out of a cake decorating book I have, and then waited for that to dry. Then it was time to bag them all and tie them up with ribbon.
Then I just poked the ends of the sticks down into the grass and soil. It was soft so it wasn't hard to do. Here is the finished bouquet.
Here are some of the other cookies that I made. They were baby rattles and butterflies (but I didn't take any pictures of those).
Here was the display at the shower.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Boot Camp Week #9
Well, I started off this week with a weak Monday. I was not fully recovered from my virus on Monday, but I went anyways. I was able to do a warm up lap and then 1 of the 3 stations she had set up to do. It was running the length of the basketball court, squatting side step to corner and then grapevine back to where you started. Changing sides each time. I was on my 4th go when I suddenly felt all lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous. So after resting a bit, I decided I should go home and take another day of rest.
Josh and I did walk and jog (or as my friend Gail says "wog") for 2 miles on Saturday. His little legs were sore Sunday and Monday. I told him that is how he knows he worked his muscles good.
Wednesday, our instructor had 10 stations set up and we did each station for 30 seconds. We almost got through it twice. The time it took us between transistions took longer than she expected. She thought we might be able to get through it three times! The stations were fun. There was one for jumping rope, for plank bops (that is not the real name but that is what I call it), walking lunges with a tricep exercise, running with weights overhead, wall squats with weight lifting, step ups (on to a bench with weights) and there were medicine balls which we held in our knee and did one-leg crunches with them. I know I am leaving some out but I don't want to bore ya! I felt like it was a good workout. I definitely like it when she does different stations.
Friday was brutal! For me anyways. We ran intervals like we do on most Fridays. Then came the hard part, I think the instructor called them Push Up Planks. Which I thought would be one exercise but no, it was just the explanation for a series of exercises. You do 10 push ups and then a plank for 20 seconds. Then 9 push ups and a side plank for 20 seconds. Then 8 push ups and then plank on the other side for 20 seconds. Then 7 push ups and a plank for 20 seconds. And so on and so on....all the way to 1 pushup and a final plank. So truthfully I only did 3 or 4 pushups when it got to 6 and 5....my arms just wouldn't do it. Like I said earlier, it was brutal. Then we did different ab exercises and arm exercises at the same time. All in all, I am a tired girl and I have so much to do today! Lord, give me strength!
I am going to start calorie counting again. Starting today. I am going to make an effort to prepare and organize my snacks so I am not just grabbing junk to eat or eating too much. I really need to get this butt into shape!
Josh and I did walk and jog (or as my friend Gail says "wog") for 2 miles on Saturday. His little legs were sore Sunday and Monday. I told him that is how he knows he worked his muscles good.
Wednesday, our instructor had 10 stations set up and we did each station for 30 seconds. We almost got through it twice. The time it took us between transistions took longer than she expected. She thought we might be able to get through it three times! The stations were fun. There was one for jumping rope, for plank bops (that is not the real name but that is what I call it), walking lunges with a tricep exercise, running with weights overhead, wall squats with weight lifting, step ups (on to a bench with weights) and there were medicine balls which we held in our knee and did one-leg crunches with them. I know I am leaving some out but I don't want to bore ya! I felt like it was a good workout. I definitely like it when she does different stations.
Friday was brutal! For me anyways. We ran intervals like we do on most Fridays. Then came the hard part, I think the instructor called them Push Up Planks. Which I thought would be one exercise but no, it was just the explanation for a series of exercises. You do 10 push ups and then a plank for 20 seconds. Then 9 push ups and a side plank for 20 seconds. Then 8 push ups and then plank on the other side for 20 seconds. Then 7 push ups and a plank for 20 seconds. And so on and so on....all the way to 1 pushup and a final plank. So truthfully I only did 3 or 4 pushups when it got to 6 and 5....my arms just wouldn't do it. Like I said earlier, it was brutal. Then we did different ab exercises and arm exercises at the same time. All in all, I am a tired girl and I have so much to do today! Lord, give me strength!
I am going to start calorie counting again. Starting today. I am going to make an effort to prepare and organize my snacks so I am not just grabbing junk to eat or eating too much. I really need to get this butt into shape!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Letter F and the Number 6
During this week we talked about many f-words but we really spent time talking about fish, frogs and firemen. We read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister and then made our own rainbow fish. I used the template HERE to trace a fish onto construction paper and then had the boys use their glue sticks to put on the tissue paper "scales".
We took a trip to Gander Mountain, the sporting goods store, and had a F scavenger hunt. The boys found fishing items, fur(on stuffed animals), furniture, and more. There is a room, in the back of the store, in which you can practice shooting a bow and arrow. There were several men in there practicing on that day and the boys liked watching.
We looked at some pictures of the different life stages of frogs. Eggs, tadpoles and frogs. I just searched for "pictures of frog life cycle" on google and then showed them real pics of each stage. Then we made a life cycle wheel that I found HERE I showed them how to do frog jumps as an exercise. They tried to hop over eachother...so then it just turned into a wrestling match. We did exercises by sixes. 6 push-ups, 6 leg-lifts, 6 frog jumps, etc...
We did several frog things over the course of the week. We sang The Little Green Frog, which I had forgotten the words to but I found it HERE and we made a little frogs using a empty toilet paper tubes, which I found HERE.
We read some books that we have about firemen and dressed up as firemen. We learned the 3rd commandment, "Do not misuse God's name" and sang all three everyday. For the song you can find it HERE.
We also talked alot about family and friends. I was amazed and blessed to hear Josh and Caleb name their family members and talk about the things they liked about each family member. So we all traced a hand and on each individuals hand I wrote, for example: "Joshua is special because..." and so on. Then everyone mentioned what they thought was special about that person and I wrote it on their paper hand. Then I cut the hands out and strung them up and hung it on our dining room light fixture. This is the only thing I managed to get a picture of during that week!
We also read some more out of James and Giant Peach and of course we did the tracer pages for the letter F and the number 6, which you can find HERE and HERE. We also did the red coloring page that is found HERE.
We took a trip to Gander Mountain, the sporting goods store, and had a F scavenger hunt. The boys found fishing items, fur(on stuffed animals), furniture, and more. There is a room, in the back of the store, in which you can practice shooting a bow and arrow. There were several men in there practicing on that day and the boys liked watching.
We looked at some pictures of the different life stages of frogs. Eggs, tadpoles and frogs. I just searched for "pictures of frog life cycle" on google and then showed them real pics of each stage. Then we made a life cycle wheel that I found HERE I showed them how to do frog jumps as an exercise. They tried to hop over eachother...so then it just turned into a wrestling match. We did exercises by sixes. 6 push-ups, 6 leg-lifts, 6 frog jumps, etc...
We did several frog things over the course of the week. We sang The Little Green Frog, which I had forgotten the words to but I found it HERE and we made a little frogs using a empty toilet paper tubes, which I found HERE.
We read some books that we have about firemen and dressed up as firemen. We learned the 3rd commandment, "Do not misuse God's name" and sang all three everyday. For the song you can find it HERE.
We also talked alot about family and friends. I was amazed and blessed to hear Josh and Caleb name their family members and talk about the things they liked about each family member. So we all traced a hand and on each individuals hand I wrote, for example: "Joshua is special because..." and so on. Then everyone mentioned what they thought was special about that person and I wrote it on their paper hand. Then I cut the hands out and strung them up and hung it on our dining room light fixture. This is the only thing I managed to get a picture of during that week!
We also read some more out of James and Giant Peach and of course we did the tracer pages for the letter F and the number 6, which you can find HERE and HERE. We also did the red coloring page that is found HERE.
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