Brat Pack

With the arrival of spring finally here, we have seen an abundance of children gravitating towards our back yard. I'm sure a huge, cut down tree is part of the appeal!

I am so grateful my children love to play outside. And that they have their pick of friends to play with. And if that means broken toys (i.e. swings, light sabers, golf clubs, hockey sticks,...to name a few), so be it.

As long as they are being safe, having fun and being kind to each other, they can play at our house all they want.




P.S. We will be having a family night, though, on outside rules. When the hockey stick breaks because it's being used as a sword, I'm not as okay with that!

New Things

Some people wonder why I would spend so much time making these, but I just love these Cupcake Pops!! Aren't they the cutest? I made them for Leslie's shower today. The chocolate ones were YUMMY. The cherry vanilla ones were okay, but chocolate is more my taste. I found this idea on a fun baking blog, Bakerella. She even shows you how to make the cutest Hello Kitty Pops.
I see an Anna birthday party favor in the works!

My next new thing...

I have been oooooing and ahhhhing over the hand stamped jewelry at Etsy for months now.
And I've finally pulled it together and gotten myself the basic supplies!! Just in time for craft day on Saturday!! This morning I made this necklace for Leslie and it took only 10 minutes (seriously)!
It's on a 1" metal blank with a crystal charm. I love how it turned out and how simple it was. At craft day we'll be making the metal charms, crystal charms and the birds nest (from the Etsy photo). I can't wait.

And Rob just bought his own new toy...
Would anyone like some firewood?

Sticker Collection

Did you ever have a sticker collection when you were growing up?

I did. Scratch n' Sniff stickers. Puffy stickers. All kept nicely in a little sticker album.

Evan and Anna started their very own sticker collection today all by themselves. Not only once, but twice!!And the only joy I find in this...when they are older, I'll get to embarrass them like crazy!!

I have a problem...

I, too, have an addiction...to my laptop.

He crashed last night. Big time.

As we speak, he is on an airplane to San Diego with Rob because not even my computer whiz husband could figure out what happened.

I feel like my two best friends have been taken away from me.

Everything non-important to my life is on that laptop. My survival for when Rob is gone is all on that laptop.

I'm already feeling boredom settling in.








P.S. I'm actually kind of looking forward to getting some other things done this week. Like painting Evan's bedroom. That should keep me busy. Or maybe I'll mop the kitchen floor. Yeah right...that's pointless.

Confessions of a Chocoholic

Someone in our family has a problem and it's a very serious one.

He needs help.

Ready to prepare some favors for an event that I'm responsible for, I went to retrieve my hidden stash of bargain chocolates (bought them at an incredible price--I'm on a strict budget here). But to my dismay I found that 3 of the 4 bags had secretly been demolished over the past 3 weeks.

The first step is admitting that you have a problem.

He has done this (after much ranting and raving on my part). I think I even heard the words, "You are right." (WooHoo--I love those words)

But now what? I have tried to curb this problem over the years, but it is obviously out of my control. I'm at a loss. What should I do?







P.S. To those who think I am being absolutely cruel to my husband for outing him in this manner, I say..."Whatever." My next post will be about some fault of my own...now if I could only decide which one to chose!

Jared's turn

Well, the paparrazi was out in full force last night as the 1st graders put on their "Under the Sea" performance.

Unfortunately, most of our photos turned out like this...as cameras kept popping up in the middle of my shot!

Jared was such a hoot to watch! This kid has so much energy and enthusiasm!!! Definitely a ham! I almost feared the crazy antics that Jared and his buddy on the left could come up with...trouble makers in disguise. I seriously don't understand why his teachers keep saying he is quiet. I guess he knows how to put on the "good boy charm" when the teacher is around because he was the farthest thing from shy or quiet last night!!!

Oh my! Is that a wide open mouth? I can almost hear the beautiful music!!

Jared sang his heart out last night and put every ounce of power in his skinny little body to perform. We're so proud of him and happy that at least someone in the Kunz family has the ability and desire to be STAR!!!