Another Project: St. Patties Day Wreath

After Kyle went to bed on Tuesday night I started getting out my St. Patrick's Day decorations. I decided that I wanted to do something special and different to decorate the door this year. So that is when I went looking at all my different things I had around the house that I could make a door decoration with.... I came up with paint, white and green foam.
I got on the internet and found two patterns for shamrocks and spent the rest of the night cutting these out. (This was no easy task for me - I failed cutting in kindergarten!) However I was determined and I did it.

On Wednesday night, I put the paint in styrofoam plates and got Kyle to put his thumb print in red on the green shamrock's and his entire hand print in green on the white ones.

After we finished making the shamrocks I let him play with the paint...


He had a blast!


This is the white shamrock with green handprint.


This is the green shamrock. I turned the red thumb print into a lady bug.

For the back of the wreath I made a little sign with Kyle's thumb prints to make a shamrock. This is where I put his name and date we made the hand prints. (sorry its blurry!)

On Thursday, I finished putting it together. (Hey Monica- this is what I was doing and trying to explain while I was talking to you!:-)) The ribbon is a white back ground and has green shamrocks with red lady bugs which really ties it all in nicely.

What do you think?

I know... I'm no Martha Stewart but I am really starting to enjoy these little projects!

What a great weekend!

Wow! Is it Sunday night already?! As I was packing bags and laying out our clothes for in the morning I honestly could not believe that it had flown by this quickly. But we really have had a great weekend!

Friday started off with Kyle's Valentine's Day lunch party at school. Several parents brought refreshments in for lunchtime (I was so worried he would only have junk food so I made turkey and cheese sandwiches!) I went over for his class lunch and Kyle did great! After lunch the kids got to go out on the play ground for about 30 minutes before nap time so I got to video tape him going down the big boy slide.

Friday night, Kyle and I went over to Grace's house. Karen made a delicious lasagna and the kids had a great time playing together. Below is a picture of Kyle posing for Grace to take his picture. Karen and I talked about how we always hope they will be good friends and we are going to pull these pictures out when they are in high school! :-)

Saturday morning.... No pictures to post of Kyle opening his Valentine's from Mommy and Daddy cause he opened it by himself!!! Ben was asleep and I had gone to brush my teeth and Kyle runs to the bathroom with his present telling me to "LOOK" and to "open the box".

On Saturday afternoon, Mom came over and we celebrated Valentine's Day and then went to run errands in town.

On Sunday, Ben's parents came down and celebrated Valentine's Day with Kyle and visited for the afternoon.

Kyle has a very bad habit of trying to stand on his toys... So Dee Dee was showed him how to jump OVER them! It has worked too. For the rest of the afternoon, I had a little frog jumping over everything in the living room!:-)