Painting Umbrellas

We had craft week last week at our house. My two oldest kids are off to preschool next week, so I wanted to do something fun (and cheap) before they went back to school. Day one of craft week included umbrellas, paint, and squirt guns. My kids love umbrellas. I don't know what it is, but they just love them. It doesn't matter whether it's raining or not, they will walk around with their umbrellas. Weird, I know. They have pretty much destroyed their old umbrellas, so Emma and I went and picked up some new umbrellas. Emma somehow found the only pink umbrella which was hiding behind all the others. That's my Emma. I put their initials on the umbrellas, filled some squirt guns with paint and the kids went wild.





Noah thought it would be hysterical to paint his sister. Not gonna lie, I thought it was pretty funny too.
And this was the after math of the paint war.

Not a drop of rain in sight, but Emma was running around with her umbrella as soon as it was dry.

Emma Faith

My oldest daughter is crazy. She is a princess. She is a diva. She is a hot mess. The girl has made her father start to lose his hair and her mother start to gray. We are not looking forward to her going to high school, or worse, college! One thing I do know is that if we can guide her on the right path, she will change the world one day. Because passionate, determined people change the world. Underneath all her crazy diva-ness, is a compassionate, loving, beautiful child. A great big sister. A great little sister. A helper. I just hope we can get the crazy out of her. Well, maybe just a little bit of the crazy. Because life is no fun without a little crazy.

Candyland and Mustaches

This week my oldest daughter had her 3rd birthday. She decided to have a Candyland themed party. Now we aren't big candy eaters in our house (besides Emma) so this was heaven for her. We went to the store together and she just started throwing every candy she could get her hand on. We ended up with a very colorful candy bar, a lollipop scavenger hunt and a photo booth with mustaches on a stick and 10 little kids on a major sugar high!