Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Mothers Day.

I had a great day...I am blessed to have such a wonderful husband who gives me a Mothers Day break everyday!!!

Thanks for being such a great hubby!

And my kids are so sweet.

I will never get sick of home-made gifts.

Really.

I think my kids have the best ideas!

And they are so sweet and put so much time into what they make for me.

I am so thankful that I get to be a Mom.

It is seriously the best thing ever!

I do realize that I want my kids to have the best Mom...and I also realize that I am not at that level I want to be yet.

But I try, everyday.

I think, when the day is done, they are happy that I am their Mom.

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I also want to say Happy Mothers Day to the two best Moms in the world.

Grandma Ene and Grandma Na.

I am so Thankful to have these examples of motherhood in my life.

Our Mothers are such wonderful woman who have raised such wonderful people!

I hope my kids turn out great too!!!

(I kinda think they will!)

I'm tired.

My day started out with 9 mile run with my friends Aryn and my LONG LOST friend Annie...who is here visiting from Minnesota for a little bit.

Aryn had already gone home when I remembered I needed a picture...

But it was so much fun to run with Annie again!

Annie, I think you are great!!!

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Later in the afternoon we headed out to Star to help at the Young's ranch...

Wind had blown down a huge tree, and the men needed to pull the stump out.

So while they worked...we played.
We played some volleyball, the kids rode the 4-wheeler, they got in the hot tub for a swim!

Fun stuff!!!

Then later on they did a little paddle boating in the pond.
Later on we had a yummy dinner and dessert.
It is always so much fun to spend time with great friends.
We are all completely exhausted!!!

I am going to bed early...and I GET TO SLEEP IN!!!!!!!!!!!
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Movie night and early present...

Friday night=Movie night here at the Matthews home.

Gotta get this done so I can go pop the popcorn for them.

The little ones are in bed...they aren't really movie watchers...yet.

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AND...

I got my Mothers Day present early today!

Hopefully I can give it a try tomorrow!

Brent got me my very own paint sprayer!

So now I can do my own chairs, cabinets, and so many more things....

Oh the possibilities!!!

I am SO excited about this!!!

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Another Thursday...

It was kind of a slow morning...

Nothing much happening...

Then we did some stuff outside...Brent is making new doors for me for another project of mine...

Elsie had speech therapy today...

Then we decided to do our Mothers Day dinner before the weekend hits!

So we headed to Texas Roadhouse!

I wanted those rolls...

I wanted them so bad that I even forgot to look at the menu until the waitress came for the order!

Woops!

Porter was in the high chair in the isle...and I can't even tell you how many waitresses he man-handled in the isle...

Little turkey!

But they all turned and gave him big smiles...which of course gave him incentive to continue his rotten behavior!!!

Came home and the kids did homework...

I went out with Porter and did some sanding on the said earlier project...and Porter had so much fun playing in the dust specks floating in, lit from the evening sunlight.

I just thought this was a fun whimsical picture...

He was having a fun time!
I LOVE him....
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ALSO....
More great Elsie news!
She has been working REALLY hard at school on holding her pencil correctly.
She usually would hold it in a fist with her thumb down toward the paper.
But she has been working VERY hard...and she is totally getting it!

You can tell how hard it is for her to hold it like that.
She continues and she works so hard and it will get easier and easier the more she does it!
Elsie Rose, you are so awesome!!!

I just LOVE her too!

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The Challenge is still on!

We are getting lots and lots of friends!

Keep them coming!

May 17 is the day we start!!!

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Girl time...

We all took a trip to Hobby Lobby this afternoon and picked up some supplies for an upcoming holiday...

Then after dinner the girls and I got busy on making some fun stuff.

I wish we had more time to do stuff like this.
I feel bad when I have to rush them when they are having such a good time.

I love to watch them and their minds getting creative.

I have some great girls.

(The boy ain't too bad either!)

See, he even cleans up after himself!

Gotta love that, right???

Like I said...they are pretty good kiddos!!!
We LOVE them!!!
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We are starting to ROCK with the people who want to join the challenge!!!
Keep them coming!!!
I double dog dare you!!!
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Another project done...almost...

These are some old windows I got when I helped clean my Grandmas coop with my Mom.

I knew they had great potential...as does all garbage, right???

Anyway, Brent did make a shelf on the bottom of one of them, horizontally, and I used that for quite a few years.

But now they have a new purpose and I am so excited about it.

They are my new memo board/station in my kitchen.

We definitely need someplace to for our stuff...so I wanted to make it cute!

The fabric parts are cork boards and the black is chalk board.

I wanted a way to bring the black of my island in to my future plans of white/tan and aqua.

And the chalkboard does that perfectly!!!

I say it is almost finished because I photoshopped that picture into the memo board...I plan to put some great black and white picture of our kiddos in there!

Here is where it fits in the scheme of things in the kitchen.

See my old camera on the shelf...that brings the black in too...I also plan to print some old black and whites of our Grandparents and put them there...

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The kiddos had dinner outside with friends...grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Porter had a great time with their left overs.

Maybe we should just let him do his own thing when he eats...because he ate a ton!

He also made a HUGE mess!!!

I just think Porter is a nut.

I just LOVE him!!!

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I would LOVE to have more Wellness Challenge people!!!

I sent e-mails to those interested...if you didn't get one...e-mail me, madi_bell@hotmail.com , and I will get you the info!!!

If you haven't seen the challenge yet...go here

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Zoo Boise

Today was Elsie's preschool field trip to the Zoo.

She has been so excited for this!

I was a little worried about how the weather would be...but it turned out to be perfect!

Most of the animals were out and about and the kiddos got to see lots of fun stuff.

The guy who took our picture was standing in the line to feed the giraffe...so it was a lot of people, all staring at us...I am pretty sure that is why Porter has such a dirty look on his face!

The lion was a fun one.

He was all posed, right in front of the window...for all of us to sit and stare at him.

Elsie was very adamant about walking herself the whole time.

I would pick her up to show her an animal, and then start walking, while holding her.

And she would say to me..."I walk!"

So I would put her down and she would grab my hand, and off we went.

She was VERY worn out at the end of the day.

Porter thought the animals were great.

He wasn't scared of anything.

It was a lot of fun to watch his reactions to the animals and their noises.

Watching the tigers sleep...
And you always gotta get a picture on the little tigers!

Porter in the groundhog tunnel

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It was a good day.

I got some laundry done too...so now my kids will have some clean clothes to wear to school tomorrow!

Fun at our park...

Another Sunday afternoon...another Sunday at the park.

The little kids had fun playing 'telephone'...

(Isn't that just the cutest picture???)

While the big kids...yes all THREE of them...were busy playing with their 'helicopter'.

It is a pretty fun little toy...Brent shoots it in the air...the kids chase after it...

We laugh.

It is all fun!

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I am really excited about all the interest I am getting for my Wellness Challenge!

I have had over 380 hits on my Wellness blog just today!

But I need more participants...so get your friends and families to join.

I owe e-mails to quite a few of you with further details...

I will get that out tomorrow!!!
Thanks!!!!

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Busy day...

Today has been a busy day.

First thing this morning I got up and did an awesome run with Jenni and Aryn up in the foothills.

It was a great workout!

Came home and I was pumped and ready to get stuff done!

I am working on a cool memo board thing made out of some old windows (big surprise, right?).

So I spent some time painting parts of that....

I tried to start painting my chairs, but now I know I really want to spray them, I will like the finish much better.

So I need to look into renting a really good paint sprayer...anyone have any suggestions?

Later int he day we took the kiddos to the library.

That was a lot of fun and we came home with LOTS of fun books.

I found 3 horse/pony books for Elsie and she is just loving them!!!

Then we stopped by a few thrift stores, because I was looking for some cheap cork board for my memo board thing...

(By the way, thrift stores have found out how cool they are, and they are totally jacking the prices up!!!!!!)
We didn't find the cork we needed, but the kids found some good deals on used books.

So they were happy and didn't mind the driving around as much after that.

We tried Home Depot...but they don;t have cork...

So after grabbing a bite to eat, we ran to Walmart, which is where we should have started...seriously.

I got the cork I needed, and I am almost finished...maybe I can show a finished product tomorrow...

Anyway...came home and got the little ones to bed and the older girls watched a movie....

Now they are in bed, and that's where we are headed!!!

Like I said...busy day.

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I have posted about the Wellness Challenge site you can go to....

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Check it out!

WELLNESS CHALLENGE!!!!!!

Okay, so here it is...

I finished the blogspot that you can go to for all the info you need to join the Wellness Challenge!

Go here:

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Tell me what you think and if you have any questions!

If you are interested, please send me an e-mail at madi_bell@hotmail.com, and I will send you all the rest of the stuff you will need to know!

Also...

It would be so great if you would get all your friends and family to join.

It is so much easier to do if those around you are doing it too!!!

So send a link to all your friends and family and get them to join too!!!

It is gonna be great!

I am not sure on a start date yet.

I would like to start ASAP, and was thinking maybe May 15.

But I also want to get as many involved as possible....so maybe we should wait and start June 1.

What are your thoughts???