Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

I made my first Strawberry-Rhubarb pie!  And I got to use fresh strawberries and rhubarb from Becky and Ralph's garden... yummy!  I was too lazy to make my own pie crust and I only had 1 frozen crust so I just put a crumb topping on it.  I love crumb topping!

It boiled over in my brand new oven and I got to use the self-clean for the first time.

Doesn't it look yummy?

I thought it was so good!!!  I ate more than half of it myself!!!  The boys wouldn't eat it, so it was just Dave and I.

Tissue Paper Flower with a Sweet Twist

Jayden and I made a cute little tissue paper flower bouquet with a sweet twist for his pre-school teachers.  The 13th will be his last day of class and then on the 18th there is a picnic with all the classes.  I'm so sad preschool is over.  Jayden just loved it!!  I'm so glad we sent him!  He learned so much this year!  In the beginning of the year, and most of the year, he wouldn't say "hi" when we first got there and all of his classmates would say "hi" to him or yell it across the parking lot.  Within the last month (maybe a little longer) he started being the one to yell "hi" first from across the parking lot as we all got out of our cars.  I just think that is a huge improvement. The whole social experience has been wonderful for him!!!  And he learned to write his name, all the letters of the alphabet and the numbers too.

So to say thank you to his teachers we bought some green chocolate melts and coated some pretzel rods with them.

Then we put them in individual pretzel rod bags...

Sealed them with a rubber band and then put the pipe cleaner of the tissue paper flower through the rubber band...

Twisted the pipe cleaner around the pretzel rod and tied a pretty bow around it...

and put 4 together for each teacher...

Aren't they so cute?  After you eat the pretzel rod you will still have a cute flower made by a cute a kid!

Finishing up the Mother's Day Crafts

In the morning we decorated the bags.  Then we went to the playground for a couple of hours.

Then after lunch we finished some more.  Carolynn was down for her nap so Ben helped make her tissue paper flowers.

Here is my sweet Tanner...

Tanner, Jayden and Ben...

Here are all the things that went in the bags...

Mother's Day Crafts Day 2

I found these cute flower pin wheel things at AC Moore and thought they would be perfect for Jayden to paint for Granny and Grandma.  They would look so pretty in their flower beds (I would have loved for Jayden to paint me one, but I already had him making me a bunch of my own mother's day gifts, I didn't want to do another one.  hint, hint, Dave... wink, wink.)

He did an awesome job!!  He wanted to do a rainbow, so I put the paint in rainbow order and he did it all himself!  He opened the paint, painted each petal and closed the paint all by himself!  I was right there doing other things and I was so impressed!  Way to go Jayden!!!

I never got a picture of the finished product but you can kind of tell from the first picture.  We also turned it around a day or 2 later and so he could paint the back.  You are so awesome Jayden!!!

Mother's Day Crafts Day 1

When the Robinsons came in the morning Tanner was sitting on the chair and Trevor climbed up with him and Tanner actually didn't cry or anything!  He let Trevor sit there, such an accomplishment for Tanner!  However, Carolynn was pretty jealous that Trevor sat with Tanner and not her.  Carolynn was already sitting on the sofa by herself and she kept saying or rather whining "Trevor, I want to sit with you..."  until Trevor finally told her to climb up with him and Tanner.

I decided that I'd try to make a bunch of crafts for mother's day with the kids.  This is what we got done today...

Here is a little collage of Carolynn...

And her is Ben Robinson...