I saw this GREAT Easy Spring Mural with post its over at Frugal Family Fun Blog and I went right out and bought this cute and bring flower post its!
Since we didn't really have a free wall to use we decorated the windows.
This was super fun for the kiddos and they ended up doing every window in the house!
The nice thing is that it's really CUTE too! Thanks for the GREAT idea Frugal Family Fun!
A couple of weeks ago the kiddos and I visited some local sponge docks and purchased some painting sponges.
Today we had a GREAT time painting with them to cover some mural paper.
It turned out so bright and colorful!
Because the painting was so pretty we decided that we needed to decorate for Easter with it. Aidman and I got to work cutting out egg shapes.
Spring Has Sprung!
We have been (and will still be more this week) baking up cakes like crazy! The reason is that I have not always been the best cake baker, a few of my problems are that 1. my round cakes ALWAYS fall apart 2. probably because I usually try to cut into or take them out of the pan too fast. So I have decided to do away with the round pans and just use different ones because those normally turn out pretty good even though I can't really get fancy with decorating and put it in my cake stand. Oh and the reason I've needed to perfect my cakes and test new ones out is because some good friends of mine are walking the the 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk for Susan G Komen and are having a bake sale/auction this weekend that I baking for.
So anyway, I pretty much let Aidman make this cake completely on his own. I gave him the measuring cups and ingredients and told him how much to add and when, he did all of the actual work. 
This cake was DELICIOUS! I had my hubby taste it before I told him what it was (because he's funny about certain things) and he LOVED it. 
We LOVE fresh juice! And we LOVE citrus! We are lucky that we live in Florida because we can get it fairly easily. This weekend my friend K let me know that her hubby just got done picking 40 grocery store bags of grapefruits and that I needed to come and get some of it. WOOHOO, Score! 
I did not plan on juicing the grapefruit because I would prefer to just eat the grapefruit, but the kiddos begged to juice it. 
To take away some of the tartness we also juiced some oranges to add in and it made a very lovely juice that the kids have been drinking like crazy! I think I need to go pick up a few more bags from K!
It's March, which means strawberry season in Florida! And oh how we LOVE strawberries!! We even love to go and pick our own strawberries. The only problem is that we always pick more than we can eat right away. 
Lyssy and I enjoyed some one on one time while Aidman and Daddy rode bikes. She LOVED getting to do all the stirring by herself.
Yummy Muffins!
They sorted cars by color.
They each wrote their names.
And did a puzzle together, notice the rainbow in the puzzle.
Put the alphabet in order from A-Z.
Went sliding in the backyard.
And then enjoyed a pot of gold chips (a special treat around here).
Once again I told the kids that they had to find green things that they wanted to eat to put in their Muffin Tin Monday. They got cucumbers, pickles, olives, celery, and broccoli. I told them that I could make green dip (cream cheese, mayo, dill, s &p, garlic, and onion powder) for one of their tins. Then Aidman said "hey, we need more than just veggies". I wish I would have thought ahead and bought some green spinach wraps, but I didn't so instead I made turkey and cheese rolls that were held together with green picks. They LOVED their green lunch!
Yesterday I saw a GREAT color mixing art project on laughpaintcreate that I knew would be great to do today!
Then we used sponge brushes to add green paint.
And feathers to add white paint.
And finally we stuck on gold stars!
I have been wanting to monoprint with the kiddos since I first saw it done on The Artful Parent. All you need is paint, rollers, q-tips, a tray of some sort, and paper cut to size.
First, roll the paint on the tray.
Then take a q-tip and draw whatever you desire.
Press on your paper and made sure to rub it good.
Then lift your paper off.
My kids LOVED this project! They did it over and over again!
Lyssy made some flowers.
The other day I was feeling very very bored, which doesn't happen very often. I needed something to do with myself. So I decided to try out a new recipe, which is one of my very favorite things to do! Of course the kiddos HAD to help! 
The kids came to me today and said they wanted to learn about dogs. So we got to work learning about them. Luckly, we have a log and Aidman has always been obsessed with dogs. 
This feed the Dog game was the first game Aidman ever got. Since he has had it so long, I decided to make it alittle harder. I did that by adding number cards to the game and having the kids count out that number of bones.
Then we made dog treats. We used this recipe.
This was a really fun dough to work with for the kids.
Since our dog is a boy, they used "boy" shaped cookie cutters.
They turned out pretty good.
And the dog really liked them.
After talking all about different types of dogs and dog safety, we went outside to play with our Boxer Tango. 
Tango's 2 favorite things to do are to go on a walk and to eat and chase bubbles. So we did both things. 
Tango LOVES bubbles!
