Ponies and Italian food.. what more could a girl want?!

MORE exciting NEWS!! Not really, I didn't realize what a boring life I led until I tried to blog about it. But here's a quick update... we went to the Exchange Place in Kingsport LAST weekended. Josh's Mom invited us. They only have it a few times a year. It's basically like a festival/craft type deal. A few old cabins with old relics.... tons of vendors selling apple butter and all kinds of yummy food and jewelry. Some local beaders were there. I scored a lovely pair of black and green earrings compliments of Joshy's Mom. best off all the kiddies got to ride horses!! Well, except Noah bug, he was sleeping through most of it in the baby-hawk. It was a first for both Bella and Jack. We were a little worried about Bella being scared once she got on.. ( She's our drama queen and cautious child) they both did fine! I got lots of cheesy pictures. Afterwords we all had dinner at Josh's favorite Italian restaurant and Jackson poured a cup of milk in his lap. All and all a fantastic time!

Earth Day and giving back...

We celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday by doing crafts. we made coffee filter Earths using filters, magic markers and a squirt of water. They turned out really cool. . We talked about things we can do to keep our planet beautiful. And about reusing and recycling. Then we talked about how fortunate we were to live in a place where they have a warm, safe home, water and food.I tried my best to explain to them that so many children in other parts of the world don't have those basic things, and how fortunate and blessed we are to have them. They both really got it.. even Jack. Bella asked" Couldn't we send them some water so they won't be thirsty anymore?"

I decided to let them choose one charity they both wanted to donate to. And we talked more about how important it is to help others. I was going down a long list I found and stumbled onto charitywater.org I explained what they did to help people get clean water that they didn't have and they immediately said they would like to do that one. So we set aside a jar and once we reach our first goal of $50.00 I'll send it in. They both took $5 from their piggy banks and put it in the jar. They were really excited to be able to help out. It makes me so proud!
Also when going over charities we went onto locks of love I explained what it was and Isabella saw pictures of kids on there and kids around her ago who had donated hair to make wigs and she said she would really like to do that too. I told her she would have to grow her hair for a really LONG time. I didn't think much of it but then again today she said out of the blue. "Daddy we aren't going to cut my hair anymore I'm doing locks of love." So I guess she's REALLY serious about it! We will have to wait and see.

Being Crafty.

Out of all the toys my kids have there most favorite things are balloons!! They always end up getting one of those giant foil ones that takes up half the room at their Birthday. I always forget about them until 2 in the morning when I get up to pee and they scare me to death, floating around in a dark room. I can't tell you how many times I thought someone was in my house only to realize it was just a balloon.

We did crafts today, Bella got a HUGE box of arts and crafts supplies as a Birthday present from Grandma and Judy. Today we started out by making hand print butterflies... tomorrow we are going to work on something with either dinosaurs or fire trucks for Jack. Since those are his favorite things!


Also... Bella was doing free Makeovers today. Jack rocks pink eyeshadow David Bowie style. :P