{Recap} January 2016

Happy New Year! *wink. wink*

It is starting to sink in, that we will be a family of six next month! 

Yes! I can' believe it either. 

January was a pretty low key month because of it too!

Santa brought Carter a Spirograph. I'm not sure who likes it more Carter or Mommy!

We literally spent at least an hour a day playing with it! 

If we weren't using the Spirograph, we were coloring.

Santa left me an adult coloring book, but Ellie thought it was for her!

And if we weren't coloring....

We were drawing, and let me tell you. The force if strong in this house!

Wyatt drew this!  He looked at a picture in a Star Wars book and was able to do it by himself!

Proud Art Teacher Mama moment right there!  

Can I remind you Wyatt is 4?!? Not bad!!

Lastly we decided to tackle a project that has been on the to do list, since we had Ellie!

Remove a half bath and convert it to....

This!  

We were able to remove the bathroom fixtures, update the electric, paint and update the flooring this month alone! Can't wait to show you next months progress, even with a newborn coming we made some headway!

{Recap} September 2015

Ah September! The month were I swore I would get my act together and come back to blogging! 

Ha. That's funny.  I'm definitely blaming it on being pregnant! 

In September, Canning is in full effect. Even with being pregnant I didn't want to waste a thing!

Luckily my husband stepped up and helped me!

He was an applesauce making machine! I think we canned 50 pints of applesauce last year!

Carter, my oldest is now back to school, and loving it. 

It's amazing how your kids either love or hate school. 

Fortunately, my guy loves it! 

And fortunately for me, I get lots of time waiting for him to get on and off the bus.

So i made myself a pair of warm socks!

There too thick of a shoe so I wear around the house instead of a slipper!

In September, my husband had to do some business in the Maryland so the kids and I tagged along and we made a detour to Washington D.C.!  This kids were excited to see the White House from the truck, and then we hit up the National Air and Space Museum. If your kids have ever seen the "Night at the Museum Movies" you should take them here! My kids recognized so many things. My boys turned a corner and yelled "Hey! That's Amelias red plane!" And sure enough it was!

Lastly, we picked our lone pumpkin. 

I was really hoping for three, but there's always 2016 to try again!

{Makes} Spring Egg Nests

These were so cute, I couldn't share!

But also so easy, that I felt silly to write a full pic-by-pic tutorial.

To make Spring Egg Nests:

Mini Twist Pretzels

Melting Chocolate of your Choice

Spring Colored M&M's

The biggest task for me was finding Peanut Free Melting Chocolate!

I used to love making candy, with CandyMelts but they are processed with Peanuts, so they are a no go in out house. So, I went with good old fashioned Chocolate Chips, and a small amount of shortening. 

You can use a double boiler, crockpot, etc to melt your chocolate. I went with a small pot on the stove, on low. Just keep an eye on it or it will get crunchy. Once melted I dropped a handful of pretzels in the pot and flipped them over with a fork, then pulled them out.

Here's where you will learn from my mistake! See the pic? I put the chocolate covered pretzels on my cooling rack, while it wasn't a complete disaster, it was not as easy as I thought it would be to get the pretzels back off once cooled! Next time I will do wax paper instead. 

Before your chocolate cools all the way, place an M&M in each hole of the pretzel, leaving them towards the middle make them look more like eggs, rather than standing straight up and down or laying down. 

Because your chocolate isn't boiling hot, I think kids could help with the M&M part!

That's it! A quick, easy, cute spring treat! I think these would be cute for any spring event, baby showers, birthdays, bridal showers! Or Easter (like I did!)