Aerial Swing Yoga

My sister is so into this! She feels like she is becoming more flexible, stronger and discovering her inner peace. Any kid who gets a hold of this can't ever seem to get enough. My kids love to  flip, swing,  and hang upside down for long periods of time. Its fun to encourage good healthy habits to kids and watch them so excited to show off their new tricks. And of course I have one now too. I haven't gotten into the upside down thing much much yet. But I do feel like my muscles are getting a good work out because isn't that was sore muscles mean?
If you want a Yoga swing, contact me my sister has plenty. :)

DIY Soccer Banner

I volunteered to make a soccer banner this year. Found out there really isn't much out there in terms of directions. But here is the finished product and I think it urned out great. I was lucky my daughters team was the Bumble Bees.  If you have a fence to hang it on then your in luck because it makes everything a lot easier. I just bought  1  1/2  yards of black felt, 1/2 yard of yellow felt and 4 white felt squares. I used a lot of hot glue and made the bees first. Then glued the bees and letters onto the banner. Used puff paint for the girls names. Put two holes on either side, glue a washer around the whole and put a binder ring clip through and hang it on the fence.

Glitter photos, Chalk photos, Calendar Pinterest inspired ideas

Collection of Pinterest Projects:

Blowing Glitter at the camera is a must. It helps if you are little and dressed as a fairytale princes.

Chalk drawings is super cute.  Especially if you have this little king.

Making a calendar out of your favorite pieces of scrapbook paper. Turned out cute but not my favorite project.

Hey more glitter, cute hand prints.

Old fashion Silhouettes using the iPad

I did this family picture for my Christmas card last year. I thought it was so cute with the different colors and holding hands and all that. I actually paid someone on ETSY to do it for my family. My brother-in-law was determined to find an app on the iPad that I could've done it with myself. Anyways the free sketch book pro works! With a lot of trial and error you simply draw a line around the whole object and then fill with paint. Turns out really cute and makes a great card! I made silhouettes every evening for a month and it's been a while so I better start that up again. :)

***I just started again and I have a few more tips.

When you add a picture to the screen from your camera roll 

MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT START THE OUTLINE UNTIL YOU ADD A BLANK LAYER.

If you see your outline on white in the layer section you are good to go. 

When you have outlined the whole image you can fill it in with the paint bucket.

I am silhouette crazed once again!

Call Me Maybe Babies

Call Me Maybe Babies by Carly Ray Jepsen
Just a fun playdate turned into a baby cover.  Super cute and fun times with my good friend and her sweet little girl.

Cute photo idea at the pool

My Mom had this great idea. Take the kids picture next to the number they are that summer. Strangely, we had all the right ages this year! I made a 4x6 collage at Walgreens for .29 and put it on the front of a plain card for Fathers Day. It was a hit especially to the grandmas. :)

My favorite things for bringing up babies

So with four kids I have tried out a lot of different products. Some work, some don't and some go down in history and these are the best!

I found out about the Miracle Blanket when I was just 6 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I was ready and interested in anything that can help baby sleep.

Well they were right. It was a miracle! All four of my babies were able to sleep through the night at very young ages. I kept them all in this till about 4 or 5 months. Through the night is probably around  6 hour stretches. You can buy this at Buy Buy Baby.

This is a Puddle Jumper. It is coast guard safe. It takes a bit of learning how to balance it and once they figure it out they love to swim. I have 1 1/2 year old who swims all over with the pool.

Crazy how many different strollers I have gone through overt the past 8 years of Motherhood. But this one is my absolute favorite. Phil and Ted is the perfect stroller for the 2 year gap between siblings. It can be a single or a double. This time it ended up to be a great spot to sleep after a very long day at Disneyland.

BJORN or ERGO

When I had my first baby the only people who had Ergos were tree hugger women that wore flipflop on cold December days. Bjorns are great and they last well. But my last baby was a 9 pounder and he started to grow and gain a lot faster than the others. So I switched to the Ergo and I couldn't believe the difference. All the weight is on your hips. A nice thing about the Ergo is you can put a 3 year old on your back and go for a short hike. The 3 year old will feel very lucky.

A fancy expensive highchair or a stark white highchair.

The question is which one would you rather clean?

I started out with the expensive Peg Perego. It was nice, it was padded, but come on after 3 kids it had to go. Then I got this beautiful Ikea one that my mom thinks looks so stark and ugly. She is right but boy is it easy to clean and for that I love it!!!!

Crocs or flip flops

Crocs are the best summer shoe for little kids. They are bright so you can find them anywhere. The toe is closed so no stubbed toes. And most importantly they stay on. I think they look super cute on little kids. This year my 6 year old insisted on green to match his baby brother size 5. I call it the summer of the green croc.

I will add more to this list soon!