Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Our pet Guinea Pigs

Tyler and Tatiana just loved the rabbits and guinea pigs Sunday night at the little petting zoo. So, my husband took them to pick out their own guinea pigs Monday afternoon. My son also has a salt water fish/reef tank. He got it last year for his birthday so he's had it about a year and a half. The thing is just a lot to take care of. My hubby decided it would be best to just get rid of it. His original plans were to keep the tank and stand and use it in the future. He also thought he would let Tyler pick out some type of simple fish, prob for a fresh water tank. When I told hubby how much they both loved the guinea pigs he decided on that. They can get more enjoyment and interaction with the guinea pigs then they can fish. I was searching through some of my pictures trying to find pictures of our clown fish to no avail. I did find one of the kids and I with one of them in the background so I will post that. He was a little upset that his clown fish were going bye bye but the guinea pigs definitely helped that situation. He wasn't nearly as upset then.


One of Tyler's clown fish in the background.


Tatiana named her guinea pig Lucky and Tyler named his Johnny


Tatiana's is the smaller of the two.


Tyler's is rather big. They are both 4 weeks old.

I also set up a Facebook page for A Little Bit of Everything today. I just checked it and already have 26 Fans. That's not bad for just setting it up several hours ago! :) Thanks all!

I found these ideas a few days ago and want to make them for my kids.


Fabric Scrap Dolls from This Mama Makes Stuff


The printout is on that site along with the tutorial. It mentions using glue to attach the fabric to the dolls. I'm thinking I may have some velcro. If so, I'll attach a piece to the doll then to the cardboard. That way she can continue to use the same printouts.

I also want to do the Tie Rattle Snake

The tutorial is also included in the link above and this is by V and Co.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

VBS kick off

Today was Father's Day. We went to church this morning then met my family out for a late lunch. Have I mentioned I'm so blessed to have such a close family? I'm glad that we are able to spend most holidays with each other.

This evening was Vacation Bible School kick off. Our church isn't having one this year so I took the kids to another one close by. The kick off party was great. They had lots of things going on and the kids had a blast.



FACE PAINTING






PETTING ZOO



THEY BOTH WANT A PET RABBIT NOW



BOUNCE HOUSE


Not an attractive picture of me but wanted to show I made it up that thing with a toddler! :)

INFLATABLE SLIDE



And... for those of you not from this area V.F.D. stands for volunteer fire department. That's right, these guys and gals work on a volunteer basis.

The fire truck sprayed out the water for the kids. How cool is that?

The drenched gals afterward. :)

Sorry about the picture overload!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Fireflies

The kids have been asking me to go out with them to catch fireflies ever since they saw the first one this season. I've been wanting to get out there with them but usually by the time it gets dark enough to go catch them I've already bathed them and don't want to go outside in their pajamas. Well, my parents just got back from a trip to TN and they bought both of them this neat little gadget. It looks like a giant light bulb but the bottom opens up so you can put fireflies in it. It is also ventilated throughout. I couldn't resist letting them catch fireflies or lightening bugs (as I was brought up calling them) after seeing how excited they were.









I had them let all the fireflies go before we went back inside. Tatiana let them go then was trying to catch them and put them back in again. I had to eventually let the rest of hers out. They wanted to keep them but I new if they stayed in there for too long they wouldn't be shining so brightly, so I told them they needed to let them go so they could catch them again. This was last night that they caught them and Tyler was especially asking me tonight if they could go out and catch them again tonight. After a long day, me still not feeling 100%, Tatiana not having a nap and starting to complain about her ear hurting again I decided tonight wasn't the best night and put them both in the bed at a reasonable time. Took both the kids to the doc Monday after Tati woke up early Mon morning complaining about her ear and both of them had had a pretty bad cough the entire week before. I thought it may just be allergies with Tyler but thought I should bring him in just in case. I figured Tatiana had an ear infection. Tyler's diagnosis was walking pneumonia and Tatiana's was sinus and ear infection. I was totally floored with Tyler's diagnosis since he acted like he had felt fine and no fever, just a cough. They were both put on the same antibiotic which was only for 5 days. Tyler still acts like he feels ok but Tatiana is complaining about her ear again. We went to the pool today and I didn't even think anything about her getting water in her ears. When she started complaining about them this evening it then donned on me that we shouldn't have went to the pool or I should have put something in her ears to prevent the water getting in. It was one of those what was I thinking moments.



See, she looked happy at the pool. It was after the fact when that ear started hurting her.

We also went to a local festival tonight and here are a few pictures from that.


Tatiana going down the big inflatable slide


Tyler throwing some baseballs


The inflatable obstacle course that I thought Tatiana was going to win.


Tyler finished just a second before Tatiana.

I found a really cute printable tonight for a wedding gift that I need to wrap. I've got several cute printable tags bookmarked. I will share those in a post soon!

Guess that is about it for tonight. Happy Father's Day to all you Daddy's. My hubby has to work tomorrow for Father's Day but we will spend it with my Dad. Church in the morning then lunch with the extended family.

Friday, June 18, 2010

I hope to keep this up!

I've won my third giveaway on blogs just within the past couple of months. Wow! This time I won a giveaway on Bird Crafts. The giveaway was "SAY YOUR OWN PHRASE IN COOKIES!! - (up to 25 characters and worth $35!!) from Cookies N Cream. These are some of the cutest cookies ever. I can't wait to receive them and I need to remember to take a picture when I get them.


The last giveaway that I won, I'm still waiting for them to send me the correct code to use. You can read about that giveaway here. http://tanya-alittlebitofeverything.blogspot.com/2010/06/busy-week.html. I'll let you know all about that when I'm able to access it.

The USA tied with Slovenia today so we're still in the World cup. The USA had a rough start but ended up having a tied game at 2-2. It should have been 3-2 USA though. I'm not sure what the ref was thinking.

My sinuses have been bothering me all week. It is now Friday and it started on Saturday. I've been using the neti pot and that has helped some, but I wish this mess would just go away. It makes me feel blah! Besides I have a lot of things around the house I need to get done and don't feel like doing anything except lying on the couch. This is not typical of me either. I haven't spent that much time on the computer today thus far because it felt like it was taking too much effort. Now to go find something for us to eat for lunch then probably back to lying on the couch for a while.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

A few projects I want to work on.

I have so many different crafts/projects that I want to work on. I need to stop looking for new things and actually do a few.

I need a pincushion and I think this is the one I will do.


This is a picture of the finished product on Paper.String.Cloth. The tutorial is also listed there and I think it is the one that I'm going to use. I will of course have different fabric but the idea will be the same.

I found these fabric bookmarks along with the tutorial on How about orange... They really are so simple that you don't even need a tutorial though.



I've actually made some of these but I used scrapbook paper instead of fabric. They are super easy and I will make some others.


These are my version.

That's it for now. I will post more when I get a chance and hopefully will have some projects completed.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Site counter

I just added a site counter to see if I get any hits on my site. http://www.sitemeter.com/

New background!

I love my new background. I got it for free on Cristi's Creations.