I forgot to post this yesterday, but on Oprah's messy house tour show yesterday she announced that snapfish.com is giving away 1 free photo book per household for 48 hours. So really there are only 24 hours left. This is an awesome deal because they are normally $29.99.
See this website: http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081029_tows_messyhouse/7
The great idea they had on the show was to take pictures of your children's artwork and upload it to snapfish and they will make a book out of them. And if you do it in time - it is FREE!
Try this link too:
http://www.snapfish.com/loginsubmit/pns/grantpromotion/p=2001112
Thursday, November 13, 2008
FREE!!!
Posted by Hilary at 1:46:00 PM 13 You know you want to
Friday, November 7, 2008
You WHAT?!
You made the honor roll?! You get to attend a special honor roll breakfast during 1st period?
I can't believe it! This is so cool because Aidan struggled so much in 6th grade and didn't get very good grades. Before this school year started, I was worried about him being able to keep up academically. But I get to check his progress whenever I want using edline.net as long as the teachers have new information entered. I knew that he had been doing really well in all of his classes except math. He went from a "D" at the beginning of the year to a "C+" which is what I thought he was going to get, but he pulled his grade up to a "B-". And in order to make honor roll, you can't have anything lower than a "B-" and at least 3.0 GPA. I am just so proud of him! Ty is extremely proud too. Ty's birthday was yesterday and when we found out earlier this week that he made honor roll, Ty told him that it was the best present he could ever get! Aidan also gets a special pass for the 2nd quarter that he can use to get out of any class 2 minutes early and/or get in the front of the lunch line. Now me and Ty just have to figure out something special to do for Aidan.
Posted by Hilary at 7:54:00 AM 7 You know you want to
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
My Birthday
I had a nice, relaxing birthday (9/27). Ty got me a lemon cake and made dinner. I chose yummy tacos since we hadn't had those for a while and it is pretty easy to do. Pop came over and celebrated with us. Ty and the kids gave me Adobe Photoshop and I think I need to take a class on it. I know you can do some cool things...I just have to figure it out (anyone want to give me some lessons...hint hint Josh & Karly?!...or Jen?!). Mom & Pop got me a gift card to DSW for some much needed new shoes. I chose tennies since that is what makes my feet hurt the least! It was a good day.
Posted by Hilary at 11:39:00 PM 3 You know you want to
Saturday, September 27, 2008
check it out
some new posts and some new older posts - you have to scroll down a little bit for these.
Posted by Hilary at 10:11:00 AM 2 You know you want to
Friday, September 26, 2008
Journal Jog 2008
Posted by Hilary at 10:14:00 PM 9 You know you want to
Cross Country
Just after the start
About to cross the finish line
With Coach McGregor and friend Victor
Finish time - 6th place!
Posted by Hilary at 5:39:00 PM 5 You know you want to
Thursday, September 18, 2008
How do you get your kids to do homework?
With m&m's of course! I actually came up with an idea that worked yesterday! I was eating a handful of m&m's and knew the kids were gonna want some too and since they all needed to work on homework, I told them that for every problem they finish they get 1 m&m. Brogan & Finn jumped right on that! Connor didn't get in on it until he saw that it was actually working with the other kids. Aidan was going along with it too even though he thought that only 1 per problem wasn't enough. But when you have about 40 math problems, that's a lot of m&m's! By the time he got through half of them, he thought it was fun and a really good idea. WOW! I came up with a good idea that they all liked? Unbelieveable! And they all sat at the table being fairly quiet (and when I say that, I mean they weren't fighting and being mean to each other) and they were getting their homework done. They all ended up with a good amount of m&m's and didn't even fight about someone having more than they did. Are these really MY kids? When we were done Finn asked if next time can we do it with something other than candy, like vegetables? I said yeah and started suggesting all kinds of things we could use and they were all suggesting things. It was great! I hope it keeps working in the future.
Posted by Hilary at 11:42:00 AM 9 You know you want to
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Project "Modesty"
It was my turn to teach the lesson for Activity Days the first week of September. And true to form, I waited until almost the last minute to plan a lesson. I looked up a bunch of different websites to find ideas and kept coming across an idea for modesty. It was to have the girls design modest outfits out of newspaper. Of course, I didn't have enough newspaper for all the girls that normally show up, so I started looking at craigslist and freecycle. A lady had a post from a couple weeks earlier that she had a lot of newspapers she was hoping someone would take and recycle. By dumb luck, she still had them and she worked at someone from my ward's business. When I picked them up, she was really happy that someone was going to use them again and/or recycle (which I did after we were done, especially because she gave me soooo much more than I needed.
So anyway, I gave the girls a lesson on modesty and then split them up into groups (in each group 2 to design and 1 to model) and they got to choose an outfit to design, i.e. swimsuit, church dress, etc. They had so much fun and when they were done with the outfits the models got to walk down the "runway". They even designed an outfit for Finn! What a poser! Aye Yi Yi! Here is a short video of her walking down the runway.
Posted by Hilary at 10:48:00 PM 3 You know you want to
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Pencil Anyone?
As school was about to start, I decided to go through all the pencil boxes, drawers, buckets and any other nook or cranny I could think of to sort through crayons, markers and pencils. Apparently we have enough pencils to provide to a small country! If I hear my kids one more time say that they can't find a pencil, I think I will scream.
Posted by Hilary at 11:44:00 PM 3 You know you want to