Homemade Kiddie Foot/Hand Artwork

If any of you have a Grandma/Nana or Pappy/Pepaw’s like we do in the Haus of Hughes they LOVE any art of craft that we Holden makes!  Check out two of the gifts this year we have made!

So for Nana (Kenny’s Mom) and Grandma (my Mom) we made them these for Mother’s Day

For Pepaw’s (Kenny’s Dad) we made this for him. Which I literally made an *hour* before we went out for his birthday dinner.  Thank the Lord for this super-hot summer weather we are having, that it dried in like 10 minutes!  

This is just something simple somewhat simple you and your wiggly little one can do together in your own kitchen.  J I would HIGHLY recommend doing this after breakfast when they are still peppy or after a nap….any other time will turn into disaster.  Fair warning, I speak from experience.  And preferably one artwork at a time…..I did two Mother’s Day gifts and even though it was one right after the other, Holden just seemed to sense the urgency in how I wanted them to be toddler messy, but yet toddler neat (haha) and you’d think WWIII was happening when I painted his hands/feet. 

Materials:

Canvas or Cardstock

Paint

Foam brushes (one for each colos)

Sharpie

Toddler Feet/Hands

Lots of Patience

Think up any design you like or want to make, be creative.  Use the sharpie to write out your phrase or saying.  We used canvas for ours, but if you chose to use cardstock you can put your work of art in a nice frame for display.  If you chose to use the canvas as we did, there are little easels at Hobby Lobby or Michales for the artwork to be displayed on as well.  :) 

Please share with me what you come up with!  Enjoy and have fun!

Summer Catch Up!

Soooo again it's been 3 months (again) since I've written on here!  Eeeeeek!  I keep telling myself I need to post more, but then time gets away and I don't. :( I guess you could say I'm living life, versus writing about it?  ;)

What I do have is a list of blog topics to write saved in my phone and a few topics written out but never got posted.  So in a nutshell, here are some of our highlights of what we did these past three months.  They were kinda epic!  :)

Holden and I went glam-ping for the first time in Nana and Pepaw's 5th wheel!  Daddy couldn't come because he was on call. :(  But we did have an awesome time with Nana and Pepaw!

Daddy built Holden his birthday gift from both sets of grandparents!  His own play scape in the backyard!  He loves it and it's fun to see him play on it.

Summer is upon us, so we've had several dips in the kiddie pool in our backyard, in our neighbors pool AND hot tub--bonus, and had our first mommy and me swim lesson!

I finished my first ever king size rag quilt for our bedroom.  Took me about a month total to finish it, but I did it all on my own and I love it!

I've discovered Parks & Recreations on Netflix and it's hilarious and is what most of my nights after Holden is in bed.  ;)  I love me some Ron Swanson.........kinda reminds me of my husband!  lol

We've gone on our first bike ride with our bike trailer, we got for FREE!  Holden loves it and says "weeee" and giggles the whole time we're riding.

Had our first visit to a water park Schlitterbahn!  Our good friend Tiffany and her daughter McKenzie went with us and they both had a blast!  We had a whole day with no crankiness and water filled fun!

I taught VBS; Agency D3, for the first time ever at my church.  I had a blast and loved it.  I taught 3rd grade and had two great helpers who made the whole experience great!

We celebrated 4th of July for the first time!  Holden being 9 months last year, really couldn't enjoy the festivities of the holiday, so this year we had family shirts that match, walked in a 4th of July parade and saw fireworks!

That about wraps it up! Until next time....(which I hope is next week!)  :

Brightest Blessings,
Valerie