52 weeks of FHE

So I've come to the realization that I'm a bit of a slacker when it comes to things like family home evening and family prayer, scripture study. You know those important things that you're supposed to teach your children. I have lots of excuses, whether they even border on good or not is debatable. My biggest excuse is that Josh and I both work shift work, opposite each other and we rotate so the kids don't go to day care and our schedule changes day to day and week to week. I know, bad excuse! SO I set a goal that we are going to have family home evening every week. We will have to change the day each week based on our schedule so we're not going to be a traditional monday night fam, but at least we'll be having it right? We're also going to work on family prayer, regardless of who is home at night. So the goal is 90% on the FHE. And for a little more motivation (I don't want to feel like an idiot) I'm going to post them here. If I don't have it I'll feel dumb that you all know I didn't so I will....right? Let's hope so. I didn't want to post it on my regular blog so here is where we'll go.

We started tonight! I found a cute website with lots of FHE ideas here. We did the "Satan's Web" lesson in honor of halloween. It was so cute. The boys built a web with yarn and pins. Then we put things in the web that Satan uses to "catch" us. The boys helped Tracen come up with something for him too...they think he needs to work on hitting. He mostly played with the pins and rolled the ball of yarn around. The boys really wanted to come up with happy things too so we put things we could do instead on the side. The boys said they really liked it and had fun. Jesse wants a picture to hang on his wall.

For our activity we carved pumpkins. Tracen mostly watched. Both boys had vampire fangs on their pumpkins



Then for our treat we had roasted pumpkin seeds. It was lots of fun! Next week will come a lot sooner. I think the only day we'll all be home together is Monday. We're going to talk about being nice to eachother because we struggle with that!

Really not not doing anything

I just haven't posted anything that I've been doing!

My house was in need of some serious decorations so I went to work. I love my cricut. Cricut + vinyl = cute stuff on my walls. I'm cheap and I don't have a bedroom set so instead of a headboard I came up with this. I think it's cute anyway, who needs a headboard? I got part of the idea from the Nester. I went and bought a sheet of foam which I cut into 12x12 squares and then painted the sides blackish brown. By the way this is a lot more work than I thought it would be. Paint doesn't slide easily onto foam. After that was dry I raided my stash of scrappy paper, which is sufficient, and found these papers that matched my wall. Then I modge podged them onto the foam. I have a love hate relationship with modge podge. I can never get the wrinkles all the way out. When it dries it is always warped in the end. But it works for me.

It took my a minute to figure out how I was going to get these cute squares to attach to my wall. What I decided was two nails per square. It doesn't matter if they're centered or anything as long as they're both where the square goes because the two nails combined will hold it any way you put it up. I put one approximately at the top and one approximately at the bottom (this is scientific). Then I eyeballed it and stuck the squares into the nails and wahlaw, they stuck. I do occasionally have one fall off but I just stick it back on.

Then I made the cute saying with the vinyl and stuck it across the top. and we're done!

Here's some more vinyl I did. I had this saying up in my old house and I loved it. So I made me anew one. And I love the bird by the way. If you're going to put something above your stove just make sure you clean all the grime off first so it'll stick good. Since my walls were newly painted I didn't have much grime at the moment to clean off!

I've done a few other projects I just need to take pictures of and post. My computer died so I only have one when Josh is home and lets me use his. So I'm getting behind :) The next one I'll post is this dresser. It's so much cuter now! And I got it for free.