Saving for a Rocky Beach

It's been awhile since I've last posted anything; however, we've been very busy around here. Craig was in Minnesota last week for a few days and the boys and I stayed home and prepared to host Grandma Jansen's Birthday party. We were homebound because of the extreme cold temperatures, which left us lots of time to take down Christmas decorations and do crafts. We have dedicated our front window to decorations for the season, so we made hearts and wrote what we loved on them. My favorite heart from Travis reads "chips and salsa," while Treyton's reads "climbing." Whenever we ask Travis where he would like to go to eat, or what he is hungry for, his typical response is El Mezcal for chips and salsa. Even at home he loves to eat them. I love that he loves them so much to include them on a heart for our love collection.

So it was cold this week. We kept busy with the window project as well as other projects around the house. I am helping Travis expand his crafting skills to include Mod Podge. We had a blast putting pieces of tissue paper on small baby food jars. We made some with red and white for Valentine's Day and we made a white one with flowers for Great Grandma Jansen's birthday gift. I think we'll do more of these in the future as Travis has to work on cutting out the paper and then he has to take his time in getting the paper on the jar. I'm not totally insane as I was in charge of the Mod Podge... but it was still a fun project.

Since we were hosting a large gathering this weekend we decided to make a HUGE birthday sign for Great Grandma J. Our sign was probably 15 feet long and we decorated the whole thing with colors. It was a long project one morning before lunch, but it was fun to have both boys involved with it. Treyton was happy that he got to use the colors and make a mess on the paper. Travis was excited that the sign was so big and we were going to hang it on the wall.

For the past couple weeks Travis has been telling me that he is saving his money to go to a Rocky Beach. He saw a picture of a rockier beach on his Leappad and now he wants to go to one. The one day it was super cold outside (I think the high for the day was 1) but the sun was shining. It was shining through our office window and onto our living room floor. Many days Travis and I will lay in the sun and pretend we are on a beach. We'll describe the waves and all the things we are going to build on the beach. We'll have snacks, too, and we'll just warm ourselves in the sun and have a great time. We've been doing this for a LONG time. I love our beach mornings and I hope that one day I can go with him to a rocky beach somewhere... and maybe find a spot where we can lay and take in the sun for real!