Valentine's Day Gifts and Cards

WOW. Talk about waayy behind right? I still wanted to share the Valentine's that the kids gave to their friends this year. 

Pixie handed out these little make your own Snowmen kits. It's funny, because I just happened to have these and the movie Frozen came out so Snowmen were perfect for an Olaf card. I had the pack of the Snowmen from Target's Christmas clearance. The pack of 20 was originally $5, and I got it for $1.25 I made the printable in black and white because I figured the kids could color it in if they wanted to.

Diva gave out these great pencils that have tongue twisters on them from Super Duper Publications. I found the Ventricular, is that the word? Where the image changes when you move the item? These little stars "wink" when moved. Anyway. They were a steal, I found them at Target for 75% off at the Dollar Spot! There was maybe 12 in each bag too! She wrote on the back of each one.

Piglet is BIG into robots and robotics right now, so these sticker packs from Target were PERFECT. She just opened up each one and wrote a message on them for each of her friends.

So those were our Valentine's this year. Simple but still fun, and NO candy!

Wednesday Words- Most Important Work

Source for Free Printable

I need this reminder. Every second. But I also need to KNOW it and OWN it.
Pray for me.

“The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.”

― Harold B. Lee

He is Risen Indeed

Free Printable Source

Diva drew this in her bible study book. How fitting that this week she learned about Jehovah-jireh. The Provider. The picture she drew is of Abraham and Issac. Issac is saying "oh dear, we don't have a lamb." Abraham replies, "hey look!" And the ram is there, stick in the blob bush, on the lower left. Man I love this kid.
It's kind of funny, but being that it's Passover week, Good Friday, and Easter. It is so fitting. It opened the door to again talk about our need for a Savior. That no matter what we bring to the alter, it's not enough for a holy God. But He provided a Lamb. A perfect Lamb without blemish.

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. Gen 22:8

And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Luke 22:19

Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7

The next day John (the baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29

Wednesday Words Easter Printable

Isn't this beautiful Subway art? You can get it as a free download here on Bitsy Creations.
I'm so excited for Easter, I love the Passover season. I'm so thankful for Salvation. So blessed.

John 11:25

Revelation 1:18

Matthew 28:6

Matthew 6:28

Psalm 19:14

Glow in the Dark Egg Hunt & Easter Fun

These are pictures from our egg hunt last year. You can read all about it in this post HERE.

It was so fun, we'll probably do it again! The girls didn't need any little toy surprises either, just the eggs and glow stick bracelets were fun for them.
Do you have an egg hunt? What was your most memorable one? We have a habit of doing our hunts late. One year it was just a week or two after, sometimes the day after, once it was a month after :). Easter Sunday we're at church and spending time worshiping and with loved ones, so this is fun anytime.

Here are some more ideas for celebrating Resurrection Sunday

Resurrection Cookies

Empty Tomb Rolls

Tea Dyed Eggs (You can use food coloring or beet juice also)

Free Easter Printables

Glow in the Dark Egg Hunt

Don't forget the Bunny Rolls (Just search Bunny Rolls in the search box)

Wednesday Words- Col 3

Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people Ephesians 6:7

Lord help me to decrease, and for your to increase in my life. Help my focus to be only on you, that whatever I do would honor you. Thank you for picking me up when I screw up too. 

This great free printable is from A Well Feathered Nest. You can download it there, she has other colors also. If you click the picture it will take you to her blog, so will THIS link.

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Paper Coterie

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FREE Mini MOO cards

I LOVE my MOO cards, I have them for blog, mommy cards, twitter cards and used them for business. I'm quite obsessed! Now you can get 100 FREE ones HERE, don't wait! Go! I don't post deals often but this is a good one!

Aren't my mini's so cute up there? Get your own! Put a holiday photo on the front, your name and message on the back and POW! You have your own personalized gift tags, punch a hole in them and tie with ribbon! Use them for book marks too! Kids keep asking for play dates, but they don't know how to get a hold of their friends? Give them your card to pass along.
There are TONS of ideas for parties, weddings, and such for moo cards on pinterest too!

Free Friday

It was 70 degrees yesterday. So I took Pixie to the zoo with some friends.

 "I don't know who prepares the food around here, but I need a drink."

 Pixie- "Mommy, it's Aslan! But he's not a talking Aslan."

Turns out this lion's name is Aslan, or someone told us it was.

Free Friday

Red Sauce

Zucchini noodles

Pasta

Meatballs- I didn't make these

Basil

SO good.

Free Deluxe Sample (Lip Color)

From Sephora in JCPenny. Details on the printable coupon here.  Ends on 11/1/11
I saw this on Just find it 4 U!

Free Friday

Anything but Perfect has some cute printables! Have you seen her blog? Check it out! Here are two for back to school that are darling! Print them out, laminate the lunch menu one and use a dry erase marker!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Lunch Menu Planner- LINK to download.

School Notes- click HERE to download.

Free Friday Aug 19

I so missed Free Friday yesterday. It was such a busy day.The girls will be starting school soon, and we're just getting things together. We are done with school supply shopping. Target had some pretty awesome deals. Buy one get one free, money maker coupons on their site to print etc.

This past week I decided to check out what this whole CVS shopping and Extracare bucks is about. I got some great deals. Free nail polish (2), body wash, and Teddy Grahams.  I did get some discounted items also and I have $8.00 extracare bucks leftover.

But at Target I got all of the above for free. I got this PDF coupon for the tape HERE. It's for  $1.00 off of tape. The tape I chose was 80 cents. There is no size specified on the coupon, so it's a "money maker". I also printed a coupon on Target.com for $2 off denim. These shorts were on clearance for $3.24. 

3.24-2= 1.24

7 x 0.80= 5.60

Total = 6.84

Coupons = 9.00

Tax free on the shorts this week, so I got money back. 

We need tape around here, the girls use it like crazy too. I also did this with some of that tape.

Free Friday- Back to school printables

It's back to school time! Or at least preparing for back to school for some of us. I thought these free printables I found would make transition more fun. There's a cute list for mommies there too!

So when are your children starting school? Do you home school? Have year round schooling?

From Paper Glitter. Such cute toppers that can be put on toothpicks for bentos also! The wrappers are cute too! Here's another set from Paper Glitter, check out her Etsy Shop too. The link is on her blog.

Free Friday- Teeth and freebies

Isn't this cute from Tidy Mom? Download the printable using the link to her blog HERE.

 

One of the most disgusting things to me as a mother is watching my children brush their teeth. Or brushing their teeth for them. I'm gagging just thinking about it. Children don't just brush their teeth, they drool, swallow the toothpaste, smear it all over, spit all over. Oh my gosh, it's gross. It's just so necessary isn't it? How are you when brushing your children's teeth? No issues? I'm just crazy? I thought so.

What about the tooth-fairy? A friend shared this letter from passiveagressivenotes.com. Too funny. I mean sure it's ... well passive aggressive, still funny.

Diva has been losing teeth left and right. And for a mom who was so totally against the whole Santa at Christmas thing- that went out the door this past Christmas we spent at their grandparents, I put money under her pillow. Ok, I only did that once, after that I told her she should leave the tooth on the dresser so she doesn't squish the fairy. The thing is she's been leaving notes for the tooth fairy. Complete with surveys, gifts and what not. Little dresses made from tissues, small packages, notes about "can I have lipstick next time, instead of money?" and of course can "I keep my tooth". Because grandma wants to see her teeth and give her money too. Sigh. All I'm saying is that if your fairy leaves your child a note remember that fairies write so small that you need a magnifying glass to read it. Might as well make it believable. Just saying. Do your kids believe there's a tooth-fairy? 

I found some cute printables to make this chore a little more tolerable. I thought you might like them also.

The sign shown at the top of this post is from Tidy Mom, you can find that free printable HERE.

The oral care charts below can be found HERE.

Free Friday

It's July!! Totally kidding, I actually love having my kids out of school. There's not rush to get anyone out the door, no rush to be home to pick anyone up from school. We can just hang out and be.

Free Friday

I thought I'd have a free Friday's on this blog. A free for all post what I want... oh wait. I do that anyway. But still, I'm thinking there will be jokes, videos, free things I find online. Stories. Whatever. SO this first Free Friday, I thought printables would be fun since it's almost the 4th of July AND it's SUMMER. There are so many talented designers out there and they offer some amazing free printables, they also have Etsy shops and more so check them out! So fun! 

What do you do for the Fourth if you're in the US? Are you throwing parties? Going out to see fireworks? Any fun traditions? We plan on going to watch the fireworks in DC and have family coming to visit from Africa. So fun!

 From Tweedle Dee Designs, who has a Facebook page and Etsy store. Click HERE for more info and the download.

Pigtails by Jazmin Cruiz has this cute July wallpaper download. She also has an etsy, blog and Facebook. Click HERE for the download and info.

CUTE CUTE- watermelon's remind me of summer! Which is funny because I don't eat watermelon! There are also circles and other watermelon printables from Anything But Perfect. Anything But Perfect, they also has a blog, etsy and Facebook. Click HERE for more info and the download.

The next two are from Martha Stewart.

LINK for the cone wrappers HERE.

Drink Parasols LINK.

*all photos and images belong to designers and blogs/websites where clip art downloads are found

Free Printables- Father's Day!

Father's day is coming up! I rounded up some free printable's I thought you all might like. I've also linked the talented artists/designers behind them! Enjoy!

From the sweet mama at Paper Glitter. Circle tags or cupcake toppers! Click HERE to get it.

From Paper Crave these cute boxes! Click HERE to find out how to do them.

This, is just the BOMB :). From Anything But Perfect. Click HERE. There's a cute envelope that matches too!

Easter treats and free printables!

Tea dyed eggs.

Empty Tombs.

Resurrection Cookies.

And here are some free printables I found.

Nifty Thrifty Things Blog has four cute cards, see their post HERE.

Paper Glitter was a sponsor for our spring giveaway, we just LOVE her printables! Check out this free bunny set on her blog HERE.

Fun print and color from Julissa Mora! LINK HERE.

Here are some more ideas for celebrating Resurrection Sunday

Resurrection Cookies

Empty Tomb Rolls

Tea Dyed Eggs (You can use food coloring or beet juice also)

Free Easter Printables

Glow in the Dark Egg Hunt

Don't forget the Bunny Rolls