Countdown to New Years

Have I mentioned that I LOVE Pinterest?? It is awesome!! I found an awesome Christmas present for my sister in law from her boards and Shawn (with the help of my sister in laws) found a gorgeous purse for me from my boards. AND one of my most recent pins was this fun New Years Eve Countdown. We planned to stay home since we are all at various stages of this congestion virus that we are passing around.




Here is the list of our hourly activities. I included some time to play with new, not yet played with, Christmas presents. It was really so much fun! I think this will be a new family tradition!!

1 pm Turn up the music and party like it’s 1999

2pm Make Signs, hats and decorations for New Years

3pm Time Capsule (I did a version of this)

4pm Zombie Factory

5pm Sushi Dinner

6pm Take a glow walk and drink chocolate milk

7pm Call grandma, grandpa & Nannie, papa to wish them a Happy New Year

8pm Pick a favorite Christmas Book to read together

9pm Cranium

10pm Pick a Cookie

11pm Angry Bird beanbag toss Showdown

Midnight!!! Happy 2012 Tell a favorite memory from 2011

St Patrick's Day Dessert and a Movie

Last year I found this classic Leprechaun movie which started our new tradition.

It stars a young Sean Connery and a bunch of tricky leprechauns.

To go with our movie, we made Green Rice Krispie Treats.

This year, when I saw Rainbow Pudding, I knew that would be a fun treat. I was not about to make the pudding from scratch, so my colors are a bit yellow due to the instant pudding mix, but it didn't really take away from the fun.

This years movie was a fun one!
Another Disney Classic, The Gnome Mobile, starring the "Mary Poppins Kids". Another cute Irish tale.

Next year....

Maybe with one of these...

100 days of school!!

Tomorrow is the 100th day of second grade for Logan. The elementary schools make a big deal about it. Logan asked yesterday for something special in his lunch for the 100th day. I'm not really sure what he had in mind, probably 100 m&m's :) Instead I made him a lunchbox note that I think he will LOVE for a couple reasons. First, he loves money. Not for the obvious reason, to buy Legos. He likes to collect it, read about, quiz me about it. Right now he has two state quarter collections going on after he finished two with grandpa. Second, he's working on a report on Benjamin Franklin so since I don't have several hundred dollar bills laying around the house, he'll get a kick out of seeing this one.

Happy 100 days!! Maybe I need to start keeping track of my days of working out and then celebrate when I get to 100...or maybe just 10.

UPDATE: To celebrate the 100th day of school, Logan's teacher gave them a snack every 100 minutes. And she turned it into math problems figuring out how long til the next snack and at what time. He LOVED it!

Back to School Traditions

Back to School is an exciting time around here. My oldest LOVES school! Every aspect of it...the learning, the friends, the routine.

So we celebrate the big day!

Butterscotch pancakes for breakfast

Posing for first day pics

Measured on the closet wall

And at the end of the big day, a favorite meal of mini sloppy joes.

Those are some of your back to school traditions. How about you?