Update for month of August!

August Intentions
1."Sprummer cleaning"Finish my Spring cleaning in Summer.(revised bellow)
2.a.Organize my daily planner
   b.finish back to school shopping
3.Go to bed earlier and wake up at 6.
4.Plan Mom and Dad kid dates
5.plan date nights with hubby
6.Potty train my Preschooler
7.Toddler sleeping in his own bed!
8.Do a Diy project(cover seats in Living room or paint dresser)
9.Exercise 3 times a week.I think chasing kids around should count.

August is halfway over!I cannot believe how fast time is going.I think part of it is because we have been at our rental house for the past 2 weeks!!

My goal this week is to make sure I focus on any of my unfinished goals.To do that I am going to look at this list daily!My "sprummer"cleaning will be done before fall!It is just to big of a goal to get done in one month!So the remainder of my time will be working in the toy room,one shelf at a time.

How about you?Pick a goal that needs to be worked on this week.Next,break it up into baby steps.Good luck and use this time wisely.

Just a reminder:
Only 4 more months until Christmas!Don't panick,but start saving now,if you haven't already!

Airplanes, trains and cars(Letter P and T)-preschool and toddler lesson

Devotional: scripture road signs

Letter:P and T

Number:1

For letters we are looking for recognition before we move on.I may add another,but only if it is one requiring a straight line.Letters like B,L,K,H,F,D,I,R and E.My plan is to use lots of cars and trains, Lego's and ninjago, since that is what my boys are interested in.We will really be focusing on writing and reading.Recognition, recognition, recognition! 

Here to kick off the fun is our creation. This is P.T.He is part plane and part Train.He is helping my boys learn the letters P and T.We are getting ready for Kindergarten next year!

 We played with blocks,which could take up the full time anyway.

 All aboard the snack express!

Why not add some education right?We played is it a plane or a train?If it is a plane he went into the hanger marked P.If it was a train it went to station T.

How to remodel your life

Sorry I have been MIA from the blogging world!Our renters bailed on us in the middle of our contract.Not only that,but they did a quite a bit of damage!
I was really angry at first and worried how we would afford all of it!It is like I went through the 3 stages of grief,that is,denial,anger and acceptance
I have been so amazed how many friends,and family, have helped us this week!I stopped thinking of this as a bad thing and enjoyed working with family, and growing closer because of it.

We have made so much progress and the house looks better because of it.This is a lot like our trials.It is hard and requires patience and working through it,but when you are done,you are a better person because of it!

There is a quote from this last General Conference by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"Do not wait to see the rainbow to thank God. Thank him for the rain."

During these hard times it is hard to find what you are thankful for.Each trial is like a remodel.As you start planning your project, identify the area in your life you want to remodel and take some time to consider your lifestyle and how this trial/change fits into the picture. Consider how you’re seeing your trial now and what you want this remodel to accomplish.

2.Consider what you need and want.This means looking at your priorities. Will you grow old with an illness or a family members illness, or is this an update to freshen up your life? What is the trial trying to accomplish?

Summer of Sucess-Week 9

This month we have been working in the Study guide for. 1 Nephi 1-7.There is even a quiz at the end.

Today:
Devotional: 1 Nephi 3:7
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.

This week we are focusing on courage.It was hard for Nephi to stand up to his brothers.It is important when times are hard not to give up!

For school this week we have been reviewing letters.For my 4th grader we have been working on multiplication. For my 2nd grader we have been working on time,money and her writing letters properly.
I printed out a cute little booklet

We added it to our binders for church.On Monday we had a lesson on reverence, due to the worst behavior I have seen last Sunday!

To help them stay quiet we bought a binder and sheet protectors. We have been printing activities out.They can use dry erase markers to color on the sheet protectors and also be able to re-use the activities !

We also printed 1 Nephi 3:7 copy work for my older kids so they can memorize it.Here is hoping for a much quieter and sane Sunday this week!

August Intentions and how to plan for back to school

The past few days I have been at a loss as what to write.I am not sure if it is staying up late or major changes. I have been weaning my very allergy sensitive baby to a hypo-allergenic formula.It took 2 weeks!

Could it be the dreaded back to school cloud looming over my head?School starts for us in 2 weeks.I think next to New Years,the back to school bug bites hard. When it comes right down to it,the itch to do better this year or to be organized, is nagging and ever present.Pinterest definitely has the bug it is everywhere!

As I write this post I just sit here stunned that the Summer is almost over!These next 2 weeks I will be getting the kids back on a good eating and sleeping schedule. I want to give them, and me, plenty of time to acclimate to this new school year.I hope that if I finish my shopping and get a favorite foods list done,that the visions of school supplies will stop dancing in my head.Slow down! I wish I knew how to make time bend to my will.

More time and less stress is what my August is going to be all about.It is time to make new goals and make my house run like a well oiled machine.How can I do this?Plan,plan and plan some more!It appears many people feel this way.There are printable planners everywhere! I took a little idea here and another there and I love the results.Planning for me brings goals,needs and ideas to the forefront. If I get it on paper and have a plan BEFORE school starts there will be less to iron out when it is stressful!So here it goes,who is with me?I am writing my goals/intentions to get them out there in the universe.

August Intentions
1."Sprummer cleaning"Finish my Spring cleaning in Summer.
2.a.Organize my daily planner
   b.finish back to school shopping
3.Go to bed earlier and wake up at 6.
4.Plan Mom and Dad kid dates
5.plan date nights with hubby
6.Potty train my Preschooler
7.Toddler sleeping in his own bed!
8.Do a Diy project(cover seats in Living room or paint dresser)
9.Exercise 3 times a week.I think chasing kids around should count.

There is 9 goals and only 4 weeks to do them in!I am starting a few days early in July with the schedule. So what I came up with is categories that my goal can fall in.I write these categories done and make sure I do something from each one oer week.

Church-
visiting,callings and working on
 Christ like values

Home care

• Housekeeper-organizing,cleaning and projects 
• Wife
• Mother and teacher  
• Manager of time,food and budget
• Neighbor and a friend
• Daughter and a Sister
• Personal-exercise,blogging 

At the end of each day I write what I am grateful for,look at the next day and ask myself what I can do to make tomorrow better?At the end of the week I look at my goals and several weeks ahead so I know what is coming.

None of this,unfortunately can stop the whirling and urgency of my day to day.Things come up.I can ask myself,when there is too much on my plate,  what is most important to get done."I will finish" is my affirmation. I want to focus on one thing at a time,take one step at a time.Take one step and you will be that much closer to achieving your goals and dreams.

Summer of Success- Week 8

Devotional:Pioneer day is coming up!A lot of my husband's ancestors were pioneers.Keeping with the theme of pioneers we talked about Lehi and his family,who were pioneers.Lehi belonged to the house of Israel through Joseph,who was sold into Egypt.They left Jerusalem and were guided to the promised land.We talked about how hard it would be to leave all our treasures behind. I asked the children if they could do that and what they would take with them.

We decided to take a journey of our own.We pretended to be explorers.

Writing prompt: They each had a notebook, pencil and magnifying glass.They wrote their findings.

The challenge was to find a face in a tree or we found one on the fence.

What better place to explore than the library!I printed these cute library plan.

What are you doing to explore for Summer break?

Summer of Sucess-Week 7,Day 3 of Spy Week (If you love legos you need to try this!)

Devotional:  The kids are working on memorizing a poem to learn the books in the Book of Mormon.I am on the lookout for one for the Bible too!
First there is NEPHI ONE and TWO.
Then five short books with pages few:
JACOB
ENOS
JAROM
OMNI
WORDS OF MORMON
How they fly by!

KING MOSIAH,good and great
Then ALMA'S love instead of hate.

"Repent!" Says the prophet HELAMAN.
Five more books and we're almost done.

NEPHI THREE and FOUR and MORMON
ETHER and MORONI,now there are none!

Letter:U for undercover
For baby:Play peek-a-boo.Hide toys or yourself under the blanket.My little guy really gets into it.You could say he likes to go under cover lol I can't help myself.:-P

Activity -My kiddos have been spending so much of their time with legos!I thought they would have fun setting up their own crime scenes with legos.They had a blast!The pictures aren't a good representation of their scenes,but I did my best!

Crime#1

There is a party going on with these body guards.Their party is crashed when a bad guy steels a weapon.He is the shooter!See picture below.

The guards run for their life, but 3 are killed.They must protect this guy:

Why?He is carrying discs that hold important information.

Crime#2

There are 3 dead!One guy lost his helmet!

They are all after a pink stone that can give anybody powers.Their is a spider that will eat you if you pick up the stone.

Other guys tried to warn him.There was a robot who was helping the spider by killing them off!

Crime#2

Someone stole some very important jewels and is trying to escape.He has made a lot of people angry!Will he make it out alive?

Only 3 more weeks and one day until school starts!Eeeek!