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Ava finished reading her first chapter book today! She read the first book in the Junie B Jones series. We're so proud of her!

number 1

Jamie played in a disc golf tournament in Bozeman on Saturday and won 1st place! When I picked Ava up from school on Friday, I told her daddy went to a disc golf tournament so he wouldn't be home until Saturday night. She asked what a tournament was and I explained that they play games to find the best of the best. She said, "Dad will for sure win then, because he is the best disc golfer ever!" she was right! :)


here he is with his loot...a new hat, an innova shirt, a load of new discs and his plaque :)


Heather, can I get some help with photo editing? I need to add some pigment to these legs! Whoa! ;-)

warhol inspired photo art

I've had this on my want-to-do list since I saw it in september's issue of family fun magazine. Here's how I did it:

Photo-copy a photograph with high-contrast portrait onto a variety of neon colored papers. I had 5x7 frames I was planning to use, so 4 wallet-sized pictures worked for Zoe's. For Ava's I had to play around with shrinking the size of a larger print until I got her head the size I wanted it because I didn't have any wallet prints that worked.


Next, I cut out the silhouette making sure that it was no bigger than 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches (so 4 would fit on a 5x7)


I also cut out 4 plain rectangles, 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches and found a layout that allowed each photo to be on a different background and not directly touching the same color in the adjacent pic.


When I found layouts I liked, I glued the plain rectangles onto a 5x7 sheet of cardstock.


Then I glued the photo cut-outs onto the rectangles.


Finally, I set the stack of paper on top while the glue set so all the edges adhered and it dried flat without curling up.


Voila!

Zoe at 1 year

Ava at 1 year

i want to do it!

Zoe fixed her hair all by herself :)

happy easter!

Happy Easter! The girls were excited to see that the easter bunny came during the night!

We played disc golf this afternoon. Zoe walked twice as much as the rest of us...the candy may have attributed to that. :)

...and crash.

spring break

Don't let the swimsuits fool you...We're not spending spring break some place warm. We're here in Great Falls and we had over 8 inches of snow on Friday...they just like wearing swimsuits! Here's a little of how we've spent spring break so far:

We dyed eggs

We play lots of barbies. Not 5 minutes can go by without Zoe asking, "Will you play Baah-bees with me?"

we colored

we did pedicures and manicures

We made a magic 8 ball with a baby food jar, a foam cube, and model magic clay. Model magic clay is pretty cool...we've never used it before, but for $5 and 2 hours of entertainment with some left over, I'd say it was a pretty good deal!

skatin'

Ava's school had a skating party last Friday, so Ava and Zoe both got to go roller skating for the first time! Zoe's wheels were a lot tighter than Ava's so she was basically just stomping around on shoes with wheels. Ava's were really loose so she had a death grip on my arm while her feet kept sliding out in front of her...it didn't take us long to go get Ava's tightened up a bit. :) Then she stomped around on shoes with wheels too! Zoe joined Ava's friends and made her rounds on the rink. I was tempted to get some skates myself. I think the last time I wore actual roller skates was 20 years ago! ...maybe next time :)