Every Year, 5 Minutes for Mom posts some great Christmas Giveaways on their site. These are the ones I am hoping to win this year:
- Rock Candy Princess Electric Guitar Pack
- Melissa & Doug Grocery Store/Lemonade Stand
I was reading through my feed reader yesterday and came across a post on Moms in a Blog about Homemade Halloween costumes. It reminded me about years past when we had very simple costumes for our kids. and what I want to do this year.
I want to dress Maxx up as Max for Halloween, but I haven’t seen any Max costumes, and I’m probably too cheap to pay what they would be asking for one anyway, so I’m going to try to make something at least similar to a Max costume.
Max wears a white outfit with a hood, ears, and a tail. I am having a really hard time finding anything that is plain white. Everything is white with some bright colored pattern on it. So far I have long-sleeved white onesies and have knit a small white hat that I need to add ears to.
I am still looking for white pants, I’ll settle for light gray too if that is all I can find. I also need something black and fuzzy I can make into a tail. If worse comes to worse I figure I can always buy some fuzzy black yarn and knit something.
So, anyone know where I can find what I need?
I’m not sure what the girls are going to dress up as, but they have a large bucket full of princess dresses, jewelry, and other stuff. In fact, they are upstairs playing with it now. Malia just came downstairs in her leotard, a hand-me-down animal print dance recital costume, and a shell necklace and informed me that she was a cavewoman and needed a bone to put in her hair. Constance was in one of the princess skirts, a pair of pink high heels, was carrying a wand, and informed me that she was a pirate. I think we’re just going to let them decide how to dress up this year.
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This is my Maxx. He was named after a character from one of my favorite books of all time.
The night Max wore his wolf suit
and made mischief of one kind
and another
his mother called him, “Wild Thing!”
Such a fun story. After we picked Maxx’s name I wanted to find him a stuffed Max like the one I remember my mom getting for one of my little brothers, but my mom beat me to it. She found one at a book fair and bought it for him. She almost bought him the complete set of wild things too, but decided against it. We may have to add those to his collection later.
Maxx loves his Max. Actually, he loves anything that he can grab in his tiny little hands. In fact, that’s the fastest way to get him to fall asleep. Just lay him down and give him something to wrap his fingers around. His favorites are my hands, his Max, and his pacifier. The only problem is when he pulls the pacifier out of his mouth. Then he’s not so happy and it takes him a little longer to fall asleep.
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As our good friend Shaun Duncan says, “SOUTHERN UTAH RAWKS!!”
The last couple of days we have taken time to go out and explore our surroundings. The girls especially have enjoyed our adventures. Thursday night after Mike got off work we drove up to the end of Main Street. I don’t know about Main Street in your town, but at the north end of ours is a little park with a pond and ducks to feed. (Please forgive the bad photos, it was getting late and my camera doesn’t do too well in low light.)
We took all the heels of bread we’ve been collecting and the french fries left over from dinner and managed to coax a couple of the ducks out of the water for a tasty nibble.
One of the guys Mike works with met us up there with his wife and kids. It was fun to meet some new people and the girls loved having a new friend to run around with.
Friday night we went up to Pioneer Park/Dixie Rock. It’s about a block or so East of the Main Street park and is a bunch of red rock, lots of places to climb around and explore. There is a “cave” up there that was used by the pioneers as a home. Really, it’s just a crevice between two huge rocks with a fireplace built at one end, a wall/door built at the other end, and a roof put over the top. It’s pretty cool.
We climbed up and over a bunch of rocks and when you climb up to the very top of Dixie Rock you can see the whole valley.
The large white building in the center is the LDS Temple. We live somewhere on the other side and off to the left of the hill that is behind that.
Constance especially enjoyed being able to climb all over the rocks and thought she needed to explore every nook and cranny she found. I think she would be happy to spend all day up there.
It was a fun evening and we’ll definitely go back. But right now I’m curious. Here is the “D” painted on the side of the mountain for Dixie State College:
If you go up into Northern Utah I know you can also find a “Y” and a “U” for BYU and the University of Utah and several other letters for other schools and cities. Is this something that just us crazy Utahns do, or are there huge letters painted on mountains in other places too?
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No, I’m not giving away a copy of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, but 5 Minutes for Giveaways has 2 copies up for grabs. Head on over there and enter for your chance to win.
This movie has long been one of my favorites. It’s full of fun, magic, and excellent music. Some of the songs in this movie are my favorites of all time. Watch this clip and tell me you don’t want to get up and dance along.
That is probably my favorite song in the whole movie and I sing along every time I hear it.
If you haven’t seen this movie before I have to highly recommend that you take the first chance you get to check it out. Pop over to 5 Minutes 4 Giveaways and try to win a free copy.
…and in that dream I was invited to Cathy Zielske’s house for dinner. We talked about the concerts we had attended and not attended and then made about a million biscuits by spreading the dough out on the floor and then using a little cup to cut out circles, crawling along the uncut dough as we went.
What?! It could happen.
Every time I get out the needles Malia asks me to teach her how to knit. Can anyone tell me exactly how you go about teaching a 7 year old to knit?
For the first time in at least 7 years, and for the last time in who knows how long, we were able to get all 6 of my siblings together in the same place. Of course, mom insisted on getting a family photo done. So, we all went to the park and took some pictures. Let me introduce you to my family:
Ummm….yeah. This is what happens when the clown of the family says, “Everyone make a funny face.” You’ll notice that most of us have our tongues sticking out. It’s a Chapman thing.
Of course, we started the photo with a discussion of who had to sit where. We decided to go in age order and it took us a minute to get the youngest two to cooperate.
Wow! We really can get a decent picture! So, these are my siblings. Ken, Me, Emily, Jake, Daniel, and Jeff. Jake claims to be allergic to photos and smiling.
We were missing Emily’s husband Cameron, but you add in my husband and the next generation and this is what you get:
That’s right, not a single picture of all of us looking in the same direction, or at least not on my camera. Mom and Dad may have had better luck with one of the other cameras. You probably recognize my kiddos, Malia in the green dress, Constance in the purple dress, and Maxx on my lap. The other 3 kiddos belong to Emily. Corey in the red shirt, Madeline in the pink shirt and Ben is the little one.
We also got pictures of my mom and dad with all their grandkids:
And, on other cameras there are pictures of just the grandkids, just my family, just Em’s family,and all of us together. The people with those pictures better share them with me.
