Inspired by Dennis . . .

The girls loved Dennis' collages so much that they all wanted to make one too!  Hazel even helped cut pictures out of a magazine. They are going to take their collages to their teachers tomorrow.

This one is Hazel's picture. She made three "people" using all kinds of cool stuff!

Madison picked all kinds of cool things for her picture and she added decoration with marker.

Morgan decided to go with an "eye" theme for her picture.

Morgan may have been inspired a bit by mommy's picture:

Art Time with Dennis

Dennis had fun gluing pictures today!  He doesn't seem to like messy art (like painting) that much so we tried something nice and clean today. Dennis made two pictures using paper cut into random shapes and clippings from magazines (we keep a little box of them--I need to refill it now!). On the green page, he colored with crayon first. On the white one, he took turns gluing and using markers.

And here are the finished works of art!  (I used the scanner this time, instead of just taking a picture)

First day of School!

The girls went back to school last week. Hazel started preschool this year. Everyone had a great first week of school! Here they are on the first day.

Morgan started the 3rd grade this year.

Madison started the 1st grade.

Hazel just started school this year. She took some flowers to her teacher!

At Hazel's first day of PreK, she drew pictures of her family.

Blankets For The Homeless

Blankets for the Homeless is run by two young girls who collect blankets, clothing, and food to the homeless. This week we made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for them to pass out! We also gave them some of our old clothes that don't fit anymore. We all helped making the sandwiches (well, Dennis helped eat them).

Here is a news story about Blankets for the Homeless. Check it out, and help if you can!

Body Painting!

The kids had a BLAST painting themselves today!

And each other. . .

Dennis mostly had fun playing in the water and mixing paints.

The girls decided that Dennis was just too clean. So the went after him and started painting!

He escaped, so they chased him down again to finish the job!

Doesn't he looked happy with his new paint job?

The best part was that they were able to hose off and just start all over again!

Body Painting!

The kids had a BLAST painting themselves today!

And each other. . .

Dennis mostly had fun playing in the water and mixing paints.

The girls decided that Dennis was just too clean. So the went after him and started painting!

He escaped, so they chased him down again to finish the job!

Doesn't he looked happy with his new paint job?

The best part was that they were able to hose off and just start all over again!

Visit to Johnstown

Dennis enjoying the yummy food at Rey Azteca.


The view from The Johnstown Inclined Plane.

Easter Stuff

We decorated our own baskets this year! Then we left them out for the bunny to fill up. Check them out:

From left to right it is Dennis, Madison, Hazel, and Morgan's baskets.


And check out these eggs! They look tie dyed. First, we put vinegar on the eggs, then just dripped on food coloring right from the bottle.


We also made a fun Easter cake. First, we made the batter for a white cake (from a box) then split it up into different bowls and dyed them all different colors. Then we started layering them in a cake pan, putting them in reverse order in the second pan.
Look how fun!