Family Time Tuesday ~ Puzzle Pieces ~ 3/24/20

Since we're spending tons of time as a family I thought I'd bring back an old feature "Family Time Tuesday" for today.

Is anyone getting bored yet with staying home ALL THE TIME????

I know it is necessary so the last time we were out for groceries we picked up a 4 pack of Thomas Kincaide Disney puzzles for $14!  Considering one regular puzzle was almost $10 I thought it was quite the bargain.



As you can tell, this is the "before" photo :)

Laken is thinking quite hard about where to start!  hehe

We've been starting to get on each other's nerves, so it was nice to work together and see the girls getting along!

Kaylee's section of the puzzle was to work on the castle.  Laken worked on the sky.  I worked on the bridge and trees.  

The hubby was in charge of sorting pieces.

And......The finished masterpiece!

I think we're having a Family Game Night this weekend so I might have another Family Time Tuesday for you next week or Tuesday 4 might make another appearance.  Stay tuned...

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Family Time ~ Fishing Date ~ 5/23/17

 



The hubby loves to fish.

 

I enjoy fishing but get easily bored with it so for the past few years, I haven't even gotten my fishing license.  Instead, I've taken a book.  hehe

 

This year, though, I decided I wanted to spend some quality time with the hubby without my nose being stuck in a book so I got my license.  And some fake worms, because I am NOT touching a real one!

 

The other afternoon was the first opportunity that we had to go fishing together.  The hubby had found out that the DCNR had stocked the cricks (yes, cricks) in our area and was excited to go.  I couldn't resist him asking me if I wanted to go along.

 

I think he's just so cute with all his fishing gear on!

Between the two of us this was the only fish caught!  The hubby says that the water is too clear right now and the fish see us and are scared off.

Even though we didn't have much success in catching fish, I loved every minute spent with my love and look forward to many more fishing dates this season.

So, do you fish?  How do you spend quality time with your love?

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Family Time ~ Planting Flowers ~ 5/16/17

 

Last week my facebook was blowing up with Prom pictures.  This week it has been blowing up with Mother's Day greeting and rightfully so!

We always get my Mom bedding flowers for Mother's Day.  It is what she wants every year so we just go with it.

We had a nice evening of planting said flowers together.  Here are some pictures that I took:

I took SO many pictures but these give you a hint of what a nice Family Time we had together :)

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Family Time ~ Prom 2017 ~ 5/9/17

 

Has your facebook feed blown up with Prom pictures lately?  Mine has.  I'll admit to adding a few of those pictures myself!

Kaylee is a Junior this year so her class was in charge of decorating the school gym for the Junior/Senior Prom.  The theme this year was "Rustic Romance".

The day started out with rain pouring down.  Not a good sign.  However, by afternoon, the sun started shining and it turned out to be a beautiful evening.

I took a ton, I mean a ton, of pictures of Kaylee and her date/boyfriend, Shawn.  Here are some of my favorites:

 

 

And my absolute FAVORITE:

I still can't believe my baby girl is going to be a Senior in just a few weeks!

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Family Time ~ Tennis ~ 5/2/17

 

The last Family Time Tuesday post I wrote was on Valentine's Day!  Can you believe that?

Well, it is Spring now and with that came Tennis for Kaylee.

We've enjoyed watching her play tennis this year; her JUNIOR year!  (I can't believe she only has one more year of High School!)

Last Thursday was their last regular season match.  She plays Doubles and sometimes got to be teamed up with her boyfriend, Shawn, for Mixed Doubles.

 

 

 

District Tennis Matches are this week.  Wish her luck, everyone!

GO, KAYLEE!!!!


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Family Time ~ Valentine Fun! ~ 2/14/17

 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

We had a lot of fun preparing for today!

 

The first thing that needed completed was Laken's Valentine Box for her school party.  A lot of planning and pinteresting went into deciding what to make and how.  Even then there were some changes made mid-way.

 

I hope the completed project looks like a fox to you, because that is what it is supposed to be!  lol  A fox with a mustache that is!

Last evening the girls decided they wanted to make chocolate chip cookies.  Laken was making them for her teacher and Kaylee was making them for her boyfriend.

Again, a lot of debate took place as to what to put Laken's cookies into.  Finally, she decided to decorate a Christmas Card box.  She made sure to put some googly eyes on it.

While Laken was decorating, Kaylee was baking.  She did a great job.  I only helped minimally.

She had planned ahead what to put the boyfriend's cookies in, so she had a pretty Valentine container all ready to go :)

 

As for the hubby and me, we celebrated Saturday night with a "Date Night"!  Instead of gifts we usually go out for the evening.  There really wasn't anything playing at the theater that we wanted to see so we only went out to eat and will save our Movie Night for another date.

 

I did get him a Valentine's Card, though.  I'll let you know if he gets me one!

 

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Family Time ~ Happy 10th Birthday Laken! ~ 2/7/17

 

When I found out that I was pregnant with my second child almost 11 years ago, the doctor told me that her due date was February 17th.

 

I had a feeling she would be early (like my first was) so I was thinking...maybe Valentine's Day.  Any day in February was good for me (lol) except for Groundhog's Day!  I just didn't want my little one to be born on the day we wait for a Groundhog to see (or not see) his shadow.

 

As the way of the world goes, guess what day she came?

 

Yep!  Groundhog's Day!

 

I've come to embrace the thought of having a groundhog baby and she loves the fact that we get up early to watch the live broadcast of the Groundhog's prediction.

 

On her actual birthday, Thursday, we sang "Happy Birthday" to her using her favorite sugar cookies with icing.  Her Daddy had to work evening shift and we wanted the family to be together for her "actual" celebration.

 

 

We celebrated her birthday full-out on Saturday.

 

It started with lunch at Cracker Barrel.  Uncle Dan's treat.  Laken's choice :)

 

Later that evening my little baker helped make her cake.  She chose a vanilla double layer cake with light purple icing.

 

 

Laken LOVES to bake and wants to own a bakery someday.  She had so much fun putting this cake together :)

 

She also loved that we celebrated her birthday TWICE!

 

Happy 10th Birthday, Apple Dumpling!

 

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Family Time ~ A Dog's Purpose ~ 1/31/17

 

The girls did VERY well on their report cards this nine weeks.  In fact, they both had all A+'s and A's!  I'm a very proud Mama for all their hard work.

 

We decided, as a reward, to go see "A Dog's Purpose" this past Saturday for the Matinee.

 

Now, I know some of you had probably seen the same clip that I did claiming that the dogs were mistreated.  But, then I read an article in the newspaper that claimed the clip was misleading.  You never know what to believe in the media.  Sad, but true.

 

We had been looking forward to this movie ever since seeing the previews last fall, so we decided to put the media aside and go watch the movie! 

 

I'm so glad we went!

It was one of the very best movies I have seen in a long time!

I'm not going to lie.  I cried.  In fact, I may have sobbed uncontrollably at one point!  I'm sure there were other people in the theater who cried also, but I think I might have been the loudest!

It was just such a touching, moving, loving look into the thoughts of a dog.

I absolutely loved it!

If you get the chance, go see it!  I would, however, be careful taking younger children as they might get upset.  (kinda like I did!)  My 10 year old cried right along beside me but she's old enough to understand that it is just a movie.

Here's a trailer for your viewing pleasure in case you haven't seen the preview:

Have you seen the movie?  What did you think?  If you haven't seen it, do you think you will?


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