Crawfish Find

Before all the rains of late - by the I hope everyone is doing fine - we got out and played in pond that formed in our backyard from the previous rains, while mom started the garden boxes.  At any rate, while we were out the Thaddeus discovered a crawfish!.....

Now, I have to tell you that i am terrified of these things, they were in our backyard as a kid and I always considered a scary/gross as spiders.  And to eat one, as so many around these parts do, absolutely not!  I think of it as eating anything else you might find in your backyard - ants, spiders, beetles, etc.  Gross....
(This being said i will say that although i think of crawfish this way, I do enjoy some good lobster or crab with butter to dip it in. Mmmm, yumm, wish i had some now ;) )

Okay, back to the story with the boys, so Thaddeus runs inside to get a butterfly net that Mimi and Papaw had just given to all the boys for Easter the day before and comes out and catches the thing in his net. To cute to see my little man crawfish catching!

Then, i got a bucket for them and put some of the 'pond' water in it for the thing and we put it in there for all to look at it. Thaddeus, Tristen, and even Ethan found this very cool. 

 They wanted to keep it inside when we came in, but Absolutley Not! ;)

Hand Puppets

The boys found a picture of some hand puppets in a rainy day projects book of ours from Chick-fil-A i believe.  Anyhow, the puppets are actually painted onto the hand.
So, big thanks to Abuela and Aunt Naomi for bring us some face paint, because we had a blast making these and playing out the different animals.




Thaddeus who loves to play like his hands are animals/monsters/whatever a boy can think of, absolutely loved his alligators

Tristen got a kick out of his hand being colorful - Parrot 'Pretty Polly' ;)

And Ethan really didn't care, he was excited to have his hand painted like big brothers but after that who cares,

oh, and by the way, we went to lowe's after this and Ethan rubbed and rubbed that blue elephant of his ( I suppose the paint itched ) all over his face and became a very cute little smurf ;) - wish I had gotten a pic of that, getting a pic of the elephant was quite hard.

Check out that adorable belly ;)!!

Romans

Okay our women's group is starting a bible study on Roman's, we are just going to be emailing our thoughts each day after our reading, I am really excited about it! I have really needed some accountability partners to help me with my daily reading.
Our martial arts group does a bible study like this going through the entire bible every year, which is awesome! (If interested you can find the readings here) But i seem to find it really hard to read 3 or so chapters a day, i always feel behind.  I that is not a good variable when it comes to motivating yourself to spend time with the Lord.  So far it has worked great at me saying to myself 'I am such a Loser for not reading that today' ;).
So at any rate I brought up the idea to a friend and then at women's group and we all like the idea and felt that God was leading us toward reading Romans. And I made this to help us get going, So Here We Go!

(Don't ya just love the wordle I used ;)

Awesome Definition

"The Bible is not a book for the faint of hear - it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind.  It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice - it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone.  It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask."  -  Rich Mullins

I just ran across this and loved his definition of the Bible ;).......


and on a similar not, I believe i will have try out this book

One Million Arrows - About The Book

 

Today we are making these scrumptious snacks/seeds for our friends, something fun to give us and them some laughs and this dreary rainy day. ;)

Aren't they just too cute and adorable and plus they put a smile on your face, you know it did, and gives you a snack - i have learned with boys they way to their heart is food.

I found these at the wonderful idea site Family Fun, and just so i can find them again too as well as you these are found here. By the way, yes i know that they were meant for april fools day, but they will be fun anyhow, totally didn't know about them until a couple days ago. ;)

Yeah, It's FRIDAY!

This is exceptionally exciting to us/me, because we get to spend the entire day with DADDY!  So, we are going to be running around with him in Little Rock, and playing hard, and flying by the seat of our pants - no plans except to enjoy the day......

I thought I would take this time to introduce you all to a new addition to the fam. -

presenting Flash the amazingly fast dwarf hamster that is now living in our humble abode ;)

okay enphases on dwarf, he is in there i promise right in the center of the pic.

we were at the pet store and this little guy came right out to the edge of his cage when Thaddeus came looking at him.....Thaddeus said 'he likes me mom, he wants to come home with me', now i know this is my five year old trying to talk me into buying something else he wants, i know this, i promise, even thought it was extra extra cute the way he did it, but i have to tell ya, my husband didn't soooooooo we just had to get him.

here are some pics of all the boys getting the extra fancy little home/cage put together.....

bubble wrap is an essential part of building

super cool!