Meals On Wheels

Burke, the best in the whole world, signed up to help deliver food for the Meals on Wheels program. He is so very good at doing service projects like these. He is always the first to help people move and mow lawns for our neighbors. Always looking for ways to help others. #hesakeeper #leadsbyexample When our church posted an email saying that the Meals on Wheels program needed volunteers, he signed up immediately. He got trained and did a few routes and decided it would be safe and age appropriate for our family to do together. So the girls and I joined him for our first route yesterday when they were in a bind and needed some help with a lunch route. The girls were pretty funny. Marin got it and asked a million questions about each home. But she would carry the food, ring the bell, and say "Meals on Wheels". She loved it. Hollis...well....she just really wanted to drink their milk. :o) But it was a great little service project for our family and we definitely look forward to next month.

TpT Sellers Challenge

So a few years ago, I started a second blog for all of the educational activities we did together because I kept gettting a warning that I lost space on this one. It was weird. But I started the old Giggles and Glue Sticks blog just for school stuff. But trying to keep up with two blogs was a pain in the behind and for me, impossible. So I rarely blogged on either one and our girls love, love, love looking back at old pictures to see things we have done (especially around the holidays). So I am giving up the old school one and just coming back here to combine both. If you are family, you can ignore the school stuff and if you are teacher friends, you can ignore the family stuff. Hopefully cyberspace has grown and has enough space for me here?!?!?

Warning, family this is a school post. No kid pictures will be in this one.

A few weeks ago, my friend and I entered a TpT Seller Challenge (Teachers Pay Teachers). Every week we were challenged to do something different to better our store. The first week was Makeover Madness. We were challenged to pick one product and make it over. I chose my Number Concepts unit. It was one of the first packs I had ever created and well....I have learned a LOT since then. So I basically trashed the orginal one because it was horrible and revamped it completely since this will be used a lot this year with Hollis' math curriculum, I LOVE the way it turned out. So much better.

The second challenge was actually to blog about your dreams for the future. I didn't really dream or blog....I just decided to redo this blog. It is still being modified and changed but it will work for now. 

The third challenge was to Make Your Masterpiece...to create a new product for your store. I have had our Monthly Measuring Bundle on my to-do lists for a while and a customer actually requested that I, uh, get on the ball and get them all finished. So, it was my masterpiece project. I'm glad I had a little "help" getting motivated to finish those early because they will also be a big part of our math curriculum this year. Now, I can print and laminate and they will be all ready for our school year! 

Happy 4th 2015

We had a fun and busy fourth of  July weekend. Our day began with a parade and ended with fireworks! The girls played "parade" on their bikes all afternoon and threw candy at Burke and I. ;o) Big fan of parades.

 This is probably my favorite 4th picture of the year. 

 They don't like the loud sirens. Can you tell? 

 They do love the Chick-fil-a cow! 

 Our neighborhor decorated her miniature horse before the parade. The girls got to feed him a little snack. 

And then....the fireworks show! 

 The best pic we could get of our neighborhood crew. We love our neighbors. 

 Marin asked no less than 965,000 times when the fireworks were going to start. She loved them even though it was loud. Hollis had her face buried in my arms the whole time. She hated it. :o( They were beautiful but man, you feel like you wait hours for a 30 second show. 

But it was a great day of celebrating! 

Patriotic Beauties

The girls had some pictures taken this past week. We have some buddies that have holiday photos taken with this photographer and I always love them so when she came into town for mini sessions, we scheduled a slot. They turned out so very good!! Fourth of July is becoming one of my favorite holidays! 

Kemah Boardwalk

The next day of our visitor vacation was to Kemah Boardwalk. We had never been and heard it was fun for kids. There were shops and restaurants and....RIDES!!! It was really a perfect place for all ages.

 I love this guy. I have a better picture of this ride on my phone but he is the absolute best dad in the world to these girls and we love him tons. He especially gets a gold star for riding that little ride instead of making me.

 They had a train ride which was a huge hit!

 There was a really terrible splash pad that the girls tried to play in but the water barely came up. But they got cooled off a little and then they climbed the big steps and wanted to pose for pictures. Lord, help us.

 Here they are posing with all the animals they/and cousins won at the carnival booths.

 This picture cracks me up. The pirate ship went slow and Burke was having a grand ol' time until around here when it picked up speed. Things changed.

 Before and during....it went fast. But I think they had fun and no one threw up.

 We had cotton candy while the guys rode the big rides.

 Just us girls....

 Here we are in are tired, hot, sweaty, stinky selves. We celebrated 5 years of marriage last week and love him more and more every day....even when we smell badly.

 The girls rode their own little version of the free fall. It was hysterical to watch. They screamed and laughed and rode it 3 times. A good thing about going during the week and it feeling like an furnace outside...there were no lines. We just rode rides over and over again until we were done. They loved it.

 And then there was a really big roller coaster. A big, big roller coaster. My sister was the one that had to be begged and pleaded with to ride. I agreed instantly because...I can't be that bad, right??

Yes. Yes it can. We got off and Burke had the most concerned face. When he saw me, he asked, "Were you crying??? You need to go look at your picture." I didn't cry but I didn't like it either.