Makes My Monday & Magic Marker Monday

We had a wonderful and relaxing Mother's Day yesterday. Chase and Cody made at school teapots and gave me a cup of tea to go with it. It was very sweet with Chase saying that I can can Sweet tea with him! He was so excited about this!

The poems are very sweet and can't wait to enjoy my cup of sweet tea!

They also gave me a cup of flowers! They are very pretty and sitting on my window seal in the kitchen!We will transfer them into a bigger pot outside after I get one at the store. I can't wait to watch them grow!

We had some delicious food also yesterday for brunch that I cooked.

Found this delicious french toast recipe off of food network - Baked French Toast with Blueberries.

Turned out very good and with lots of flavor.

With delicious chocolate strawberries and peanut butter and chocolate pie we had a great Sunday with family and friends!

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Mommy and Me / Makes My Monday

This weekend we played a lot in our new flat back yard! We also worked a little in our backyard. We planted one of the banks with ground cover. We need to go and get more and some other taller plants, but it's a work in progress.

I don't think you can see the actual little plants here but this is the bank we are planting.


We stayed home all day on Sunday and we played. The boys rode their quads up and down the jump as they call it. Which I don't think I have any of. Picture opportunity next time the boys are riding!

The boys played in the dirt and was making mud balls.

Chase so proudly showing off his mud balls! He likes to roll the dirt around and then put them in the sun to dry.


We also played softball, will actually it's just me throwing the ball, them batting and they running to go it the ball.

Cody action shot of him batting. He was doing really good today and not getting as flustered if he didn't hit the ball. He hit it a few times and really enjoyed himself. Chase is a good batter and can connect with the ball most of the time (as long as mom throws it right!)

Chase took this picture of Cody and I playing. It's not the greatest picture, very far away looking but it's still Cody and I!

Play along also with your favorite picture of you and your special someone! Click here:

All of the special time this weekend with my boys really made it a good weekend! I had even a chance to start to read a new book! My new book is the 3rd series of the Manning Series: The Manning Grooms. I have enjoyed it so far and can't wait to read it more!

All of this Makes My Monday!!! Click here to play along:

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

It's Monday and time for another Muffin Tin Monday. This weeks theme was No theme. It's a time to do your own thing.

I took just a regular meal of wild rice with BBQ sauce, green beans with sour cream mixed in, meatballs with BBQ sauce and chiro's in my new 4 divider plates that I bought at the dollar store!

Chase and Cody loved this meal, since it's all their favorite food! Play along also here:
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Chase and Cody made these great leprechauns with their hand prints at school and I wanted to show them off! The black hat is made with construction paper and glued on. It was a cute project that I hadn't seen done before!

Play along here:

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

Last weeks theme for Muffin Tin Monday was Orange Theme and I didn't have time to put together a muffin tin in this theme, but I had one in mind, so when this week was a no theme week, I did the Orange theme this week!

It was all food that the boys loved!

Cheddar Cheese duck, Carrots with ranch dressing, Gold fishes, Orange Chicken on White Rice.

They eat it all! Chase didn't like the carrots but you can't ask for everything!

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This week at school was the T week. For sharing Chase brought has black Truck and Cody brought his Tractor and Trailer. I also participated and brought Tortilla's for the classroom for snack. They were a hit after the kids got to roll them in cinnamon sugar and eat them!

The special craft that they did at school for the letter T was glueing Toothpicks onto a Letter T. Very simple and Cody's Letter T is being displayed in the classroom!!

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

Playing along with two Monday Memes today. I really have fun with both of these!

Muffin Tin Monday is where you create a meal with the theme of the week posted by Michelle

This weeks theme was the color RED. There are a lot of food that is red and had fun making it and the boys had fun eating it!

Top row: Spiral pasta with red sauce, Red Jello, 7 Red M&M's,

Bottom row: RED spelled out made out of red butter and bread.

This was a fun theme and can't wait to do next weeks theme! Play along also if you want to, pop on over to Michelle's blog!

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The other Meme for Monday that I like is Magic Marker Monday! Love showing off cute artwork that the boys have made. This is a way so I don't have to keep it all, I just have digital records of it!

A few Valentine crafts that they made at school!

A heart with a pocket for trading Valentine's at school! They stamped it in paint with cookie cutter and then put some glitter on it also!

These are their Valentine cards to me asking "Will you Bee my Valentine?" A foot print covers the cover of the card. On the inside they colored a special picture for me in scribbles!

Join in with your child's artwork at the link above!

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

On Saturday morning, I put together a Muffin Tin Meal with breakfast. This weeks theme is

ABC / 123

It was a fun theme. Click the button below to play along or to see the other creative meals.

A is for Applesauce, B is for Bacon, C is for Cheese, 1 scrambled egg, 2 pieces of bacon, 3 pieces of toast.
They enjoyed their breakfast, even though it doesn't look like it in this picture!

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With all the rain we have had this past week, at school the boys painted umbrella's.

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

It's Monday again, and I have my two of my favorite things to do with the kids, Muffin Tin Meals and also showing off their artwork!

First, their artwork. I am still showing off some of their fabulous pieces of finger painting for autumn.

Chase's leaf.

Cody's leaf!

As for sharing last week, was the letter K. Chase brought a old Key that I had laying around and Cody brought a picture of a Koala! They both thought their letter K's were pretty fun!

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Now for the Muffin Tin Meal on Monday. The theme Christmas morning (aka Breakfast)!

We don't have a traditional breakfast that we do on Christmas morning. Most of the time's it's something easy like donuts and fruit, but since they boys are eating waffles right now I threw in a waffle and eggs for the Muffin Tin Meal!

Eggs, syrup, pop tart, and waffle!

Magic Marker Monday

Last week at school Chase and Cody made this cute artwork. They gave it to me on Tuesday after they had their Thanksgiving party with all of their classmates. They had some yummy chicken nuggets, mash potatoes and gravy, corn, and pumpkin pie and whip cream! The lunch was a success!

Cody is thankful for...my blanket, my family, my friends and my dog Diesel!


Chase is thankful for...my mom and dad, my blanket, my friends, and my dog Diesel!


Some great artwork and I love to show it off - Here are others that are showing off their artwork...go and check it out!

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

A couple of my favorite things to do on Monday's are to post my Muffin Tin Meals and the boys artwork for Magic Marker!

This weeks Muffin Tin Monday's theme was: Food your Child was Thankful For!

This was Cody's lunch on Friday, everything that he was thankful for was also his favorite food! Grapes, Jalapeno chips, french fries and ketchup, string cheese and chicken.

Chase was thankful for pizza, grapes, string cheese, BBQ chips, french fries and ketchup. They each had a very favorite food which they were both very thankful for: a freshly baked M&M cookie!

This was a great time and a great theme!

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It's also time for me too brag about what the boys did over the last week in school!

Over the last week the boys letter of the week was H. Chase brought a toy horse to school and Cody his hat.

Look at these cute scarecrow men that they made. It was a pre-packaged craft that they put together. I think they turned out so cute! They actually made these a couple of weeks ago but they had been hanging up on the bulletin board for the whole school to see so I am just getting pictures of them!

Chase's is the one on top and Cody's the one on the bottom!

Muffin Tin Monday - Magic Marker Monday

I was so excited about the Muffin Tin Monday No theme day because I did a theme myself. I am not normally this creative but I really had fun thinking of this!

Chase and Cody's letter of last week was G and their is a bunch of food that starts with that letter, so I did a G letter themed dinner!

Green beans; Gummy Bears; Grilled Cheese sandwiches, cut into letter G;

Grapes; Graham crackers with chocolate frosting; and guacamole and chips;

and Gatorade to drink.

The boys seemed to love this meal and ate enough to make me happy! They really didn't like the store bought guacamole but I was lazy to make the real stuff. Chase really liked the Graham crackers and frosting and Cody really liked the grapes!

Can't wait for the next themed meal. The boys are really getting into this type of meal!

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It's also Magic Marker Monday where I show off a art project that the boys did this last week.

They made the letter G in school and traced it with yarn. Very cute!

This week at school was the G week and for sharing at school Cody brought Grapes and Chase brought a giraffe (not a real one a figurine).

Muffin Tin Monday, Magic Marker Monday

Combining a couple of memes today.

I will start with Muffin Tin Monday. We had a theme of Outer Space.

You really *must* use your imagination for this meal.Cheese stars, hard boil egg (I was going to make this into a alien, but it got ate before I was able to), rocket ship pb&j sandwich and space balls.

I wanted to do more but I guess my kids were hungry because they started eating it right away and didn't have a chance to do anything else.

I really like putting my thinking cap on for this meme. I have even started looking things up on the web for idea's. Can't wait to see what your Muffin Tin Meal was.

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Magic Marker Monday

I love showing off the boys artwork, so this a perfect meme for me to play along with. This last week they finger painted big pumpkins.

Chase's orange pumpkin

Cody's orange Pumpkin

Last weeks letter was also F. We had fun with this letter. Chase really wanted to bring his football to school, so since it was F week it worked out good. When I was mentioning things to the boys that started with F, I came to flower and Cody's eyes got all big and Asked if he could take a special Flower to Ms. Sarah. I said yes that would be very sweet and she would like that. For the next few days before sharing day he made sure I wasn't going to forget Ms. Sarah's flower.

I had to take a picture of him and the flower that he was going to give to Ms. Sarah. He was so proud of his flower and ran it to her at school. I guess he told everyone at school that he gave her a flower!