Building Stuff

Some of us have been taking advantage of the free building workshops for adults at Home Depot, and the free ones for kids at both Lowes and Home Depot. We did them a couple of years ago, then stopped for a while, and then started up a couple of months ago.

Here are some of the projects.

Lowes had cars to make from kits the first three times. 

There's a patch for each completed project.

They made a butterfly house at Home Depot.

Jessica, her mother in law Lisa, Jasmine and I went to a women's workshop at Home Depot. We removed slats from a wood crate.

 Cut it in half with a power saw.

Put the slats back on and added legs to the two halves to make a vegetable stand.

Mine is actually right here in my writing area holding the books I'm using.

Then Lowes had a birdhouse project.

Tyler hung one of them in a tree.

In the next few weeks, the kids have an Angry Birds birdhouse at Home Depot. Jessica, Lisa and I have two womens' ones at Home Depot. Jasmine is joining us for one of them. Tyler, Jessica, Lisa and I are doing two general ones at Home Depot.

If you haven't tried the projects with your kids, give it a go. They may love it. And it's a good bonding thing. It's something Rick does with them. And it's free.

Here is the link to sign up for the Angry Birds birdhouse. You can check for it in your area by zip code. HERE

The women's ones are HERE

The general ones are HERE

And the Lowe's ones are HERE

Let me know in the comments section if you've done any of them or if you plan too.

Spring Break Highlights 2

One of the highlights of spring break was a trip to the zoo. It was quite a ways away. It's near some beautiful beaches, but we were short on time so only got to spend a few minutes there. It was a little cool for the beach too. But it was definitely beautiful.

The birds were the best part of the zoo.

I bought a hula hoop and beach volleyball

River hung out while mommy went to the dentist

Spring break ended with Easter weekend.

 We were supposed to go to the beach to grill after church, but it poured, so we grilled using the panini press. We made banana boats.

This is my getting ready to go to church in pouring rain look! I did take the raincoat and work boots off!

I am not sure why Ty isn't in any Easter pictures! He went to church and grilled with us. Then he went to movie. But he was here again in the evening.

If you get a chance, check out my parenting blog. There's a lot of variety on it. Today I borrowed someone else's post about parenting attachment disorder kids. I also posted about books to read with your middle school children. Please check it out HERE and click to follow.

I hope to post soon about our Home Depot and Lowes projects and the trip we did make to the beach. We also hope to tube at the springs after church Sunday. It will be a quiet weekend for the child who told each parent that the opposite parent had signed her planner when really she forged my initials due to so many write ups she didn't want us to know about . So she and I will be making up a test and homework she decided not to do this weekend. I also may have some exciting writing projects ahead. So I'll be working on those. River is getting dedicated this Sunday too.

***It's been really quiet on here, and I wonder if anyone is still following. I know once the twins came home from Haiti, most fellow adoptive parents shut down their blogs and are on face book now. If you're still reading this blog, please say so in the comments. Or just say what you did for spring break.