Read Together Challenge

Jennifer over at Snapshot is hosting the "Read Together Challenge". You can read about all the details over at Jennifer's blog...and she is going to give away prizes too!! WoooHooo!! Isn't she a nice hostess!? I am really excited about this challenge....I have not been reading as much as I normally do and I miss it. I also love reading to my children but I find that I don't read to them much in the summer. I guess we all just caught up in other things....

So, we're going to be reading Treasure Island together as a family...in fact we have already started! I have several fun projects planned for us and I am having the kids put together Power Point presentations about pirates. I'm also trying to think of a game we can play with vocabulary words from each chapter...something like a "Mother May I" type of game works well here but I'm ready for something new! lol!

Free Movies!

But not in my area...darn!

I was over at My Education Junction and she had linked to a post written by Play At Home Mom
She has created a link list for movie theaters that are offering free family movies through the summer!! Hopefully, those of you outside this little East TN area will be able to take advantage of these cool programs!

We'll just keep hitting our local Blockbuster and library!

Free Movies!

But not in my area...darn!

I was over at My Education Junction and she had linked to a post written by Play At Home Mom
She has created a link list for movie theaters that are offering free family movies through the summer!! Hopefully, those of you outside this little East TN area will be able to take advantage of these cool programs!

We'll just keep hitting our local Blockbuster and library!

Country Bird's Home Depot

Yesterday, our neighbors farther up the hill came down. We had a lovely picnic of PB&J sam-itches and baby carrots with dip...oh, and a fruit cup thrown in there too.

After lunch, we went to the backyard and created our Country Bird Home Depots. Hopefully the birds will still be adding "stuff" to their nests and they will come to our Home Depots and grab some of the yarns. If not...well...if not, then we will have these bright colored strawberry containers hanging from our trees! lol!!

Here are the quick instructions:

Take a strawberry container and punch holes in the bottom and around the sides. I snipped the rim of our containers. One of the plastic berry containers would work much better but that's all we had...I'm big on use what you have! lol!

Poke yarns through the holes until you have the amount you want to put in your Home Depot.

Through two of the holes, run an extra long peice of yarn through and then tie. This will be how you hang your Home Depot in a tree...or on a swing set! lol!!

Hang and then your Home Depot is open for business!

Belle and E, on the back deck, working on their Country Bird Home Depots

Belle hung ours on the swingset. Look at our sad slide...sigh...

Close up of Country Bird's Home Depot

Sparkle didn't make a depot...he just sat around and smiled!


We had a great time and look forward to more fun times with our friends!!