I officially have all 8 halves and the back cover DONE.. Just all waiting final check from my MIL..then once I get the graphic for the cover they will go off to the printer!!! I am so glad that most of the work is finally OVER..rofl

Emily tagged me..FUN..LOL
1. My joys
-cliche, I know, but my husband and kids. Love them!
-Nature walks and time outside in general!
-a good friend who likes to be outside doing things with the kids as much as I do!
2. My fears
-Dieing and leaving my kids without me

-loosing my kids or Dh

-Earthquakes ( go ahead laugh now Emily)

3. My goals
-To raise good kids
-do a good job teaching my kids

4. My current obsessions/collections
-um..I have OCD so everything?

5. Random surprising facts about me
Um…well I am pretty much an open book so I doubt there are many surprises…LOL

BUT I am a bookworm…I love early morning walks when the dew is still on the grass

I tend to get really wacky after 9pm..ask my DH and teenager..LOL

My favorite singer ever is Kasey Chambers.. she Australian and she ROCKS!

Ok I tag:

Chandra, Rhonda, Chelita and Amy

As some of you know my MIL owns a Dance Studio and I do all her schedule typing, letter’s and programs for her recital.. we have 4 shows..2 halves each..LOTS of kids, LOTS of typing etc.. It’s program season and every spare ( ha ha ha) moment I have I have been working on them..well as of 3:15 I have 6 of 8 halves done..3 of them are all double proofed and as perfect as they will get , 1 is almost all double proofed and 2 are waiting to be proofed for the 1st time! All i know is I can see the light at the end of the tunnel..LOL

~Edited Again~ 

 I just posted another post about MORE messy art:

We were at it again last night..care to see:

http://wayzleyacademy.homeschooljournal.net/2008/06/03/more-messy-art/

Edited!

WOW.. I have had over 500 hits to this page today 6/2..so hello all..I see I was linked on several sites/homeschool sites and such.. very cool! If you look up you’ll see I posted a page for all our messy art endeavors! If you have a minute post a comment and then take a look around..welcome to my blog!!

We were supposed to have Thunderstorms all afternoon today..but that didn’t happen ( yet) so I decided after Daddy left for work we’d have some unplanned outside fun!

So what happens when you combine these items?

with these clean kids?

well you get a whole lot of FUN ( and a stick in the mud 2 and 4 year old..LOL)

First we tried in on paper like the person I heard about this from said to:

Right here is where Taejan and Ziah decided this was NOT for them…. Ziah didn’t like getting messy ( DIVA) and Taejan didn’t like the popping noise:

BUT Sir Declan of Moodyville LOVED it.. I mean LOVED it..he made my day with how much fun he had!!

and this is the point we decided to skip the paper!

Doing the “I LOVE THIS MOM” dance..rofl

Noah helped make a few of them, although he was slightly challenged by the whole..zip up the bag thing..LOL

I am the proud owner of a tie dye kid and driveway..LOL

on to the clean up..even the littles got involved!

“Poor” Declan is still blue even after a super long shower..LOL> but he wants to “do this experiment AGAIN momm”…LOL

So exactly what did we do? well here is the original instructions:

Cut a paper towel into fourths. Put one tablespoon of baking soda in the middle of each section and fold the paper around it. Put each “pillow” into its own plastic ziplock bag.

Add a few squirts of tempra paint (the more you add, the more intense the color, obviously), and then add 1/2 cup vinegar.

Seal bag and shake. Put bag on large piece of paper and let it explode, jump on it to make it explode…whatever. Then use paintbrushes, feet, hands, etc. to spread the paint around on the paper.

after the first few we skipped the paper towel and just loaded up the baggie with paint then loaded it with baking soda and dumped in the vinegar and closed the bag FAST..let it “rise” and JUMP.. The paint washes off so no worries about messes lasting!!!

Yesterday we took the 3 littles for more fun outside… as always we had a great time!

No one was dressed for real hiking so we opted for the paved Tranquility Trail at the State Forest about 5 miles from our house!

As we walked the woods went from this:

to this:

I took the opportunity to explain to the kids about sunlight and the role it plays in keeping tree’s green and such… Declan really enjoyed it!

Taejan really did walk I swear:and he does own other colors besides Orange..I just prefer him in bright colors so I can spot him!

There was a cool picnic area we were going to have our snack at..but then Declan notices all the caterpillar’s…

Ziah found some creature on the ground..of course!

we found a cute brook and the kids threw rocks!

then we found a pond off the trail:

then we headed up to the top of the mountain..what a view!!!!

On to Berry pond.. this is the campsite we picnic at occasionally!

Check out that big ole creature!

we followed the run off stream:

I would have LOVED to have kept following the run off down the ravine..but the kid sand DH veto’d it!

So back up we went!

we are so lucky to live so close to this beauty!!