150 Martino Bash

150 Martino Bash

GUIDO

What's up big bro?

Ready for Christmas

I made 15 of these wine glasses for Christmas gifts for this season. I am well on my way.

Can You Guess It?

Can you guess who this might be all dressed up? No. It is not Madison or McKenzie!

Ice Cream...NOT in the summer!

This is a picture of the ice cream the kids made during the snow storm. Doesn't it look great?

SUMMER 20111

It is 100 degrees outside today! Ouch it is hot!! Madison is playing ball this summer and McKenzie is working with her dad. This is the second week of VBS for my boys and cooking class for Braden. I am going to start adding some learning tools to this blog. Come back soon!

Cookies Galore!

The Saturday before Thanksgiving Katie, Madison, McKenzie, Holly, Leah, and I baked cookies all day! Here are the results with a few other Thanksgiving photos included.

Gobble More!

My mom, Rick, Madison, and I went to Branson for Thanksgiving. We ate at a restaurant where there were people that would sing to you at the tables. A guy from the 2008 season of American Idol sang to Madison. We also went to Silver Dollar City to see over 4 million lights. One really neat attraction we saw the night before was the Trail of Lights. It was over 2 1/2 acres of neat Christmas lights. We did so many other things too. Oh, yes, we did shop on Black Friday.

Gobble! Gobble!

Bedazzle or Something like that

I was watching a Halloween show on TV and thought this would be a neat idea. Bedazzle your pumpkin.

How Much

Character Pumpkin

Here is a picture Brett made of his character pumpkin for school. The name of the book is My Monster Mama Loves Me So.

Haunted House

Here are some pictures of the haunted house I made out of a cardboard box. You can't see the purple lights inside the house that sort of shine through the windows.

Halloween Decorations and Football

Today Brett and I decorated for Halloween. We are only 1/2 finished but I will post some pictures anyway. I only have pictures of Braden's football team. It was a beautiful day.

Boys' Bonfire Blast!

Tonight Brett and Braden had 3 friends over for a bonfire. They had such a terrific time. They played with sidewalk chalk, roasted marshmallows, jumped on the trampoline, ate some more snacks (or shall I say ate s'more!!!), played football, and much more.

Where did all the air go?

The boys and I did a little science experiment this morning. We took a large trash bag and one of the boys got in it and cinched it by his waist. The other boy took the vacuum cleaner wand and sucked the air out. Result: A funny, tight, bag around the body.

Getting Caught Up!

I am going to post various pictures of recent happenings. There are some pictures of the fishing derby at Lakeside Park. I took Brett, Braden, and Braden's friend Asher. My mom and Rick went and we all had a picnic, too. There are some pictures of my Fall table. Exciting to me but maybe not to you. In addition, there are some pictures of the first day of school. The girls are freshmen now and Brett is in 4th grade and Braden is in 2nd.

Grocery Challenge Day #7

This is the last day of the grocery challenge. I made it!! I spent $36.56!!! This DID NOT include drink here or there or the occasional $1 hamburger my husband may have purchased for the kids. This was strictly groceries. I DID NOT eat out AT ALL!!! Today for breakfast was either cereal, pop tarts, toast, and/or applesauce. Lunch was chips/salsa,Cheese Nips, and turkey sandwiches. The afternoon snack was FREE frozen drinks from Long John Silvers and brownies. Dinner will be hamburgers!!!!!!!!! Sit down for this one! Dillon's today....Total before coupons...$79.58.....after coupons....-51 cents.....so, I had to buy a candy bar.grand total .03 cents.

Grocery Challenge Day #6

Yesterday was day #6 of my grocery challenge!!! I think I will make it. However, I do have a slight change. I am not going to count when we get popcorn, my girls go with a friend somewhere and buy a snack, etc. That wasn't my intention. My intention was to lower my weekly grocery bill. So, I am going to add the $10 back in from the popcorn this week. Therefore, my total is $17.56. Last night I spent $19.00 at Dillon's. My new total is $36.56. I bought the following: bag of salad, 12 boxes of General Mills cereal, box of Cheese Nips, three 1/2 gallon cartons of ice cream, and a box of Hormel turkey. I saved 73% of my bill. For breakfast we had toast, cantaloupe or cereal. Lunch was turkey sandwiches. Dinner was salad, Italian shells and cheese, cheesy garlic bread, and cantaloupe.

Grocery Challenge Day #5

Today was the last day of the 'kid movies' at the mall. Therefore, I spent $5 on popcorn again. That brings my food total to $27.56. Tonight we ate sloppy joe's for dinner. We just snacked on little things for lunch because I knew we would have popcorn at the movie. I didn't go to the store today. I really ought to go soon because I have some great coupons to match the Dillon's ads. I have some great ice cream coupons for this week but I have NO room left in any of the 3 freezers. Darn!! Breakfast was cantaloupe. I got 5 of them from my friend's, grandpa's garden! SCORE!!! Not bad so far.