Economics Fair

All the 3rd graders at Keaton's school will be taking part in an Economics fair next month. They had to come up with a product, slogan, and a catch phrase. This is what Keaton came up with. Magnificent Magnets. Over the next couple of weeks he needs to make enough to sell to 25-30 people.

Keaton always works hard at school and goes the extra mile. What a good kid!!

This is what happens when...........

Mom is acting like a goof ball and little boys have the camera LOL

The box cheered him up!

Carter hasn't felt well the past few days and has wanted extra attention. Well........I just finished unloading some diapers from the box and Carter was super excited. He wanted to play choo choo, car, and airplane :)
Ah.....sick little eyes.

Flying!!

Wolf

Tonight was an exciting night for Keaton. He has been working hard in Scouts to become a Wolf. I am so proud of his time and effort that he put in to earn it. He also earned his gold arrow point and 5 silver arrow points. Way to go buddy : ) Love you!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

The kids were so excited the other day when they looked out side and saw snow falling. They wanted to bundle up and head right out!!!!
Looking pretty warm : )

They had such a great time!

A great D.I. treasure

I love when I find a nice little treasure and D.I. had a good one for me recently : ) Here is the before. You can't tell in this picture but it had layers of lumpy icky paint on it. I loved the design of it though and could see the potential it had.

It took a lot of sanding (luckily I have power sander, that helps a lot). I am sure that my neighbors were going nuts with the noise.

Here it is almost done.

I gave it the distressed look which I like but I think I am going to put red on the distressed part and give it one last coat of black spray to match my furniture upstairs.

I will post the final picture once I get around to finishing it. It could be awhile since it's cold outside now.

From this to..........this!

So we've had this little site for sore eyes hanging out in our basement for awhile just waiting for me to beautify her. Well I was feeling crafty one day and went to work. Here is the before. Ohhhhhh purdy isn't she UGH!
Here is a drawer with such a lovely handle. Ick!Here is the after.................oh much better!

All she needed was a little sanding, some silver spray paint for the handles and black for the rest.

Why oh why didn't I take the time to do this sooner?