Book Review: "Princess Grace Sticker and Activity Book"

"Princess Grace Sticker and Activity Book" is a short, sweet book for young girls.  There are 50 reusable stickers that young girls will love.  The stickers consist of pretty princesses, horses, butterflies, a treasure chest, flowers, etc.  The activities consist of finding things wrong with the picture, finding certain items, dot to dots coloring pages.  Young girls will have fun and be entertained for a while.  This book is short, only 16 pages, but it is enjoyable.  My granddaughter, Grace, loved that there was a book about a Princess Grace. 

I received this book free from the publisher for my honest review.

Book Review: Princess Charity Sticker and Activity Book

"Princess Charity" is a short, sweet sticker and activity book that young girls will be sure to love and enjoy!  There are 50 colorful, reusable stickers, of all things young girls love--horses, princesses, animals, flowers, etc.  There are simple word finds, dot-to-dot pictures, a maze, coloring pictures, spot the difference, and spot things that don't belong, among other pages.  It is a small book, only 16 pages, but it is fun to do.  My granddaughters love to use this book!

I received this book free from the publisher for my honest review.

School's out!

So, we finished up school on May 15th.  The boys really worked hard to get the work all done!!  So did I!  We had an end in sight, and pushed hard.  The last week was grueling, but we are enjoying time off now!

What are we doing with our time off?  Work.  LOL.  I've been working on bulletins, calendars, video tape copying, etc. Last Friday was a beautiful day that we spent doing yard work.  UGH.  But, the yard looks really nice.  I vacuumed out all the leaves from the pool (we've been leaving the pool up in the winter).  So, I used the wet vac, and got the water and leaves all out.  Then, we bleached the floor of the pool, and got that all cleaned up and out.  Then, we began to fill the pool.  I need to get the solar cover on (no need as yet, as since we cleaned the pool out, we've had nothing but rain and cloudy days), as well as the filter on and running. 

Matthew wants to do a little gardening with me, so we are going to plant a garden.  As soon as we get the tiller back from the shop.  Crazy thing wouldn't start this year, and then the pull cord broke.  Well, I guess a spring inside it broke.  We are planting 2 tomato plants, green beans, carrots, lettuce, and I don't know what else, in small amounts.  This will be a small garden.

I made 2 necklaces--1 for my mom, and 1 for myself.  I found a knock off of the living lockets, and worked on getting them made.  I also made an Italian bracelet watch band.  I liked the idea of the Italian bracelets, but I don't usually wear bracelets.  And, my watch band broke--so it's like killing 2 birds with one stone, so to speak. 

My other plans for this summer?  Well, I plan on recovering the patio swing, and also making a new hammock seat (it just ripped out this year).  Other than that?  As little as possible.  Oh, I also want to make a cover with PUL to protect our cell phones when we go to a water park.  We'll see how that goes.

Blessings!

Book Review: "Never A Bridesmaid" by Janice Thompson

This is a book review on "Never a Bridesmaid" by Janice Thompson.  I think I have read every book by Janice Thompson.  I really enjoy her as an author!  It is a good, light read.  You know, when times are tough, and you just want to escape?  This will fit the bill!

The story starts out, when Mari's sister, Crystal, announces that she is engaged to her socially elite fiance, Phillip.  Crystal then announces who is in the line up of bridesmaids, when, Mari, to her horror finds out she is last in the line up.  And, double horror, Sienna, who is a ditz, is chosen as the maid of honor!  The most prestigious place of honor in a lineup, to also host the bridal shower, bachelorette party,  the honor speech, etc., and she gave it to the gal who is so consumed with herself?  And, to add insult to injury--lining up the bridal party according to height, leaves Mari matched up with a 14 year old, socially awkward boy.

Enter Derrick Richardson, who is the best man, and baseball player.  Mari and Derrick hit it off, and Sienna is positively jealous.  Yes, the book is predictable, but it was an enjoyable and entertaining read.

This is a short read, a novella.  I wish it would have been longer, but it was a good escape, and fun to read.

I received this ebook free from the publisher for my honest review.

Spring is here!

We have been having some beautiful, warm weather.  The trees are beginning to bud, and the daffodils are in bloom.  Ah!  This is nice!!

Today, we have some work to do.  We will be running the pop cans into the recycling center.  We also were able to purchase all the "Big Daddy" Dad's Root Beer (that is the gift our church will give to all the fathers on Father's Day).  So, we will drop them off at church, and pick up all the pans, knives and my Trader Joe's Insulated bag that I left there last week.

I am also hoping to cut Sam's hair, and iron everyone's clothes for tomorrow (that's a given for a Saturday).  I will be chopping up a lot of veggies for a veggie tray for tomorrow's company, as well as making a butterscotch pudding dessert.  I need to wrap up the gifts for the rescuer, and his daughter who is having a birthday next week.

Matthew went to a farm today with my parents, as the farm is hosting a sheep shearing day, along with seeing all the wool, and what you can do with it.  He messaged me that he wants to buy a lamb.  :)  They said they would cut him a deal for $25.  I'm pretty sure our village won't allow it as a pet, and rather consider it a farm animal.  He's had this all figured out since he carried around the lamb for the Easter productions.  This has been in the works in his mind for a couple weeks.

I am also finishing up the bulletin for tomorrow.  Such is life in a busy pastor's family household.
Blessings!

Our Son, the Pilot!

We are so PROUD of our son!!  He has always wanted to fly a plane--well, back in March, he got his pilot's license.  Tonight, we received a phone call, that he was going to be flying over our house.  Here he is:

So cool to see a goal accomplished in one of your children's lives.  So proud of him--it is hard to be a man, who works hard to support his family, has a job, a wife, 3 children, and still be able to work hard and acquire his pilot's license.  Congratulations, Josiah!!

Blessings!

Whew! Hoping for normal

We are hoping that things will settle down to a dull roar.  We had some busy times with the Living Last Supper productions, as well as the Easter Breakfast, and Easter Production of "He's Alive".

 This was Andrew's (he's only 16!) first year in the play--he played James the Less.  He did great!!

                                               Here is Josh, in Watch the Lamb part.  

One of the nights, Josiah forgot his contacts, and said he was worried that he couldn't see, when he slams down the money bag--he is supposed to knock over the salt bowl.  He was worried he would hit a cup of water.  Well, I had help in setting up the table, and someone accidentally filled the salt bowl with water.  So, when he slammed down the money bag, it hit the salt/water mix, and water went flying.  He kind of shook his head, and did a double take, it was so funny!!  We got it on video, and we all laugh when we see him.

Then, we geared up for the Youth Spaghetti Dinner, and annual business meeting.  We met on Saturday to get all the food cooked up and ready.  Then, we served, and cleaned up, and headed to the business meeting.  We had to keep the business meeting short, as we had to leave immediately after to go to District Meetings.

We got to the District opening night.  Matthew thought it was a dud at first, because all they had was popcorn.  He was hoping for free pop.  LOL!  Then, he found the pop, so things were good.  Hubby won a $15 gift card for Culvers, in a birthday game.

The kids got some swimming in, too! 

Then, on Monday night, I watched our 3 boys who went with, along with Josh & Brittany's girls, so hubby and Josh & Brittany could go to the missions banquet and hear Hulda Buntain speak.  They enjoyed it.  Me, not so much.  Water problems seem to follow me!  I went to use the sink outside the bathroom, and the faucet flew up in the air, and gave me a shower. I called the front desk--they sent a maintenance man up right away, but he couldn't fix it.  They offered to have me change rooms, but I wasn't up for moving all of us without too much help.

Tuesday, Brittany and I and the children went shopping, while the men went to council meetings.  We went to Hobby Lobby, and TJ Max and McDonalds to kill some time.

Later, we went to Golden Corral (Yum!), where Matthew and I had a cotton candy eating contest.  I ate 7 1/2, and he had 8.  I could have eaten more and won, but he was so intent on winning, and he was starting to get sick.  You would think he would learn to just quit, and take a loss.  :)

We also went to Jelly Belly, took a tour, and bought some belly flops.  And, we also went to Kopps--which is way better than Culvers, in our opinion.

We got home Wednesday night and were glad to be in our own bed.

Thursday, we went shopping for food, and we are getting ready for Sunday's service.  The man who performed CPR on Dan will be to our church for a dedication of the new AED machine.

Blessings!