Mountain State Fair

Last weekend we took the girls to the fair. We all had a wonderful time. The girls loved looking at the animals. Keyword there is "looking." Victoria loves animals unless she has to touch them. Of course, fearless Elizabeth would have been up for touching them. :)

Here are some pictures of the girls riding some of the rides.

The girls got to try a Funnel Cake for the first time, my all time favorite fair food. Victoria thought it was okay, but not too special. Elizabeth tried one bite and then decided she just wanted to eat the powdered sugar on top. Victoria had been wanting to see the pigs all day. Thankfully we found them right before we left.
I always enjoy watching the girls when they experience something new. It is so much fun to see their reactions. Hope you had a great weekend as well.

The Letter T

Two weeks ago we worked on the letter T. Our verse was, "Thou shall not steal." - Exodus 20:15

The girls had a lot of fun this week. We did lots of activities with Turtles for T. Also, for our art class we did a scarecrow craft and they had lots of fun playing with friends. Here are some pictures of our favorite things from this week.

Elizabeth matching Large, Medium and Small Turtles.

Victoria counting TurtlesElizabeth putting stickers on her letter T. Victoria was very proud of her bible verse.

The girls working on the Kumon Worksheets

I hope they always enjoy learning this much!

The Letter L

Last week was our first week of Preschool stuff and we had our first Art/Craft Class last week.

We started last week on the Letter L. We are doing the alphabet starting with the easiest letters to write because Victoria already knows her letters and letter sounds.

Here are the girls "First day of school pictures."

Elizabeth Victoria

Victoria learned the bible verse, "Let your light shine before men so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16 It is so sweet listening to hear her say it.

We did lots of things this week, but here are some pictures of our favorites.

Victoria and Elizabeth tracing lines to be ready to write the letter L.

Elizabeth working on her find the L worksheet.

Victoria taping together her bible verse.

Victoria tracing L on her vocab words. Victoria built her ladybug triangle.

We had a great week. Hope you did as well.

For those of you wondering, we are doing a combination of things, but lots of our ideas come from these two ladies and their blogs.

Raising Rock Stars -

and for other fun things to do with each letter -

Summer

Wow, I haven't posted for a while. We have had an amazing, but busy summer.
We worked in the garden a lot and did a lot of canning and freezing. God truely blessed us with the bounty of food we had this year. My neice Charlotte Autumn Ray was born! One of my best friends Joni Marlowe (now Slagle) got married. Victoria was a flower girl and I was a bridesmaid in the wedding. We went on vacation to the beach and just spent a lot of time with family and friends. Elizabeth turned 2! We even went to Kid Senses in Rutherfordton one day with Monique, Noah and Chloe.

We will be starting back with our preschool work next week and hopefully I will begin blogging once again. Hope all of you had a wonderful summer as well.

Brittany

Easter Sunday

I know I am a week late, but we have been busy. We had an absolutely wonderful Easter. We went to the Sunrise service at church followed by breakfast, Sunday School and regular Church service. Pastor Tony gave a wonderful message. Then we had a big family dinner. It was a wonderful way to celebrate our Lord! Here are the girls in their Easter dresses: (as you will be able to tell - Victoria lost interest in having her picture taken really quick, but Elizabeth did well)

Kisses for Baby

Precious

She loves flowers.

Smelling the tulips

Elizabeth - I love this picture!

Family Picture

The Letter E

Last week, we learned about the letter E. We also spent most of the week learning about Easter and what our Savior did for us! It is still so amazing to me that Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior, died for our sins, but then proved His power over death by rising from the grave! - There is no greater love. Victoria is so cute. One day she said, "I didn't want Jesus to die, but I am so glad He is alive again!" We also spent a lot of time outside. The weather has been wonderful. The girls even got to help Grandma plant some flowers.

Elizabeth with her shovel.

Working hard - Victoria watering the flowers.

Victoria stirring the eggs.

Making Egg and Bacon Breakfast Casserole. I can't remember what Victoria was saying. :)

I almost forgot - Our 4wheeler came last week. Stewart was so happy, but really Elizabeth likes more than anyone else!

I hope all of you had a Happy Easter!

Easter Eggs

About a week before Easter, Elizabeth West and her daugther, Maddy, plus her sister, Crystal, and her two boys, Ian and Daniel, came over to the house. We did an Easter egg hunt and dyed Easter eggs. We had such a great time. Here are some pictures:

Victoria

Elizabeth

Victoria stiring her eggs.

Elizabeth - this is how she became the Incrediable Hulk (her hands were very green when we were done)

All the kids dying eggs.

We had a wonderful day and lots of fun.

Coupons

I love coupons. They really do save our family a ton of money. This past week has been extremely busy. So many good deals going on. I know some of you always like to know my total savings, so here it is for the last week and a half.

Harris Teeter (It was Triple coupon week) - Spent $66 - Saved $275

Target - Spent $17 - Saved $66

Rite Aide - Spent $30 - Saved $110

Foodlion - Spent $20 - Saved $26

Total - Spent $133 - Saved $477 - Savings of 78%

And I have our stockpile back up on a lot of things we had used! :)

The Letter D

Two weeks ago we learned about the Letter D. It was a fun week. We even got to spend an evening with the Caines' family (Philip and Sarah's). We haven't really done anything this week, except hunting and dying eggs (will post pictures later). Here are some pictures from 2 weeks ago.

We read "Danny and the Dinosaur" and played a dinosaur game for matching up letters.

The girls are coloring the dog part of their headbands. We read "Go Dog, Go!" and "Big Dog, Little Dog"

The headbands!

We also made Doughnuts. The girls love to cook!

Enjoying some doughnut holes.

One our doughnuts.

That is all I have for now. I hope you all had a wonderful two weeks.

Victoria's 3rd Birthday!

On Monday, March 15th, Victoria turned 3 years old. I still can't believe it. She is truly a blessing to Stewart and myself (so is Elizabeth). Here are some pictures from her party (on the 14th) and her birthday.In my family, it is tradition that you get to take a bite out of your birthday cake. (Don't worry, you get the piece you bit).

The cake I made! It is by no means perfect, but I was proud of it. lol.

I love this picture of Elizabeth, she is so funny.

Victoria on her new bike.

Victoria holding up 3 fingers and eating cake!

I had a few more really cute pictures I was going to put up, but for some reason the image loader is freezing up, so these pictures will have to do. We started a new tradition this year. We are going to mark the girls height on their closet door every birthday! And I wanted to thank our family and friends that made it such a great birthday for her by celebrating with us. She had a great birthday.

The Letter C and lots more

This has been a busy week for us. Victoria made the move from crib to her big girl bed. She is loving it. We learned the sound for the letter C, played outside a fair amount, and played board games (Candyland and Memory were the favorites this week). Stewart got to go to the ACC tournament on Thursday. Elizabeth tried learning to ride the tricycle, Victoria went to her first dance class, and I made Victoria a Little Einsteins Rocket cake for her birthday party (will show the pictures after we have her party tomorrow).

The girls really discovered all the fun to be had on their chalkboard this week. One day, they drew on it for almost 2 hours. Victoria has started asking about what one number plus another one is. So I let her pick the numbers- say 4 and 3. Then we write the math problem and draw that many of stars (or something) and let her get the answer. The chalkboard is great for that.For the Letter C, we read "The Cat and the Hat." We did looks of games and activities with this book. Here Victoria is matching the hats and bowties by color. I found this at: http://makinglearningfun.com/themepages/CatintheHatPrintables.htm

Coloring a Cat and the Hat picture.

Victoria playing basketball and Elizabeth trying to ride the tricycle. We had wonderful weather this week.

Having fun with Play-doh.

Hope you all had a wonderful week as well!