September 2011

I was just telling Chubbug the other night in the car how amazing the bean fields looked last night as the sun was going down. They were a orange/pink color or a "peachy mural color as Chubbug put it" and I've never noticed that before. I guess it's because I've lived in Illinois all my life and beans and corn in the fields is normal for me to see everyday, but the other night the colors caught my eye and made me think of Fall. Speaking of Fall, Chubbug, Mason and I worked on pumpkin bars with homemade cream cheese frosting last week and they turned out scrumptious!!! The boys then decorated their pieces with sprinkles....silly kiddos! I don't have any pics of them baking away because I forgot my camera, but I plan to do a lot more baking soon and will post hopefully some awesome new recipes.

I've been working on a bunch of Fall craft ideas as well as crafts for Chubbug....I found this awesome Fall Bucket List which is currently being displayed in our house and I plan to check off each item between now and the end of November!!!!

Check out Pinterest at http://pinterest.com/pin/192483715/ for this awesome list.

I hope everyone is enjoying the Fall season as much as the Hertz's are!!!

Winter 2011

Chubbug has been enjoying spending some much needed time outside in the snow. He's been playing in the drifts that we received from the last winter storm and even made a snowman with his dad! Here are a bunch of photos of the play dates outside!!!!

Blizzard Week Projects and Fun!

Well last week was a fun week at the Hertz household, Chubbug was off school Tuesday through Friday and I was off work most of Tuesday through Thursday!!! Recently in school, Chubbug did a test to see how many letters in the alphabet he knew and there are a few that he needs to work on. So, I broke out some homeschooling information I've located on a couple of different homeschooling website and we set off learning some of the letters and working on craft projects. Last week were worked on "S for Snowman".

Since it was Groundhog Day on Wednesday, we also watched Phil's website that evening and learned about groundhog day, read a book relating to the holiday and then made our own Groundhog Phil! As you can see below, Chubbug enjoyed this craft. The only bad thing about this particular lesson is that it started snowing yesterday morning a little and Chubbug didn't understand why because Phil said he didn't see his shadow, so Spring should be here!! LOL

We've also been preparing for Valentine's Day with a few craft projects.

Saturday we spent time at Nana and Papa Hertz's house and tried a little sledding over their large drifts. Chubbug even went airborne at one point. He told us "that's how I roll"..he's watched Dispicable Me tooo many times! I'll hopefully be posting photos of the adventure soon!!

Coming soon.....this weeks adventures at the Hertz household!!!