AWANA CLUBS (Shaila)

~Awana~

We have had a lot of fun at Awana this year and the last one too!!!! I am sure that you know what it is like at Awana if you have gone. I hope if you had gone to Awana then you like it a lot!!!!!!If you have not gone then I will tell you what they do there at Awana: We sing songs, play games, recite verses and we have some night that have amazing events there is a night were you use Awana money and get some really cool stuff!!!! And then there is a night were you go and pretend it is summer (You do not have to wear bathing suits). So you pretend that you are at the beach on that night and there are much more activity nights that are not like the normal nights at Awana!!!! And you get to make lots of awesome friends there!!! So if your Children do go tell them that I said to just have fun!!!!!! I have invited two of my brothers there because at first it was just me and Connor. So first I invited my brother Brandan and my brother Aidan. And they like Awana a lot too!!!!! And I have had a lot of fun at Awana too!! I love Awana a lot!!!! It is so much fun I guess that Awana is in a ton of states. So you can do it too!!! If you want to of course. I think that if you do go to Awana then you will have a lot of fun!!!! I hope that you maybe do got to Awana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or well bring your Children to Awana!!! And I am sure that they will have a lot of fun at Awana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really truly do LOVE Awana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I will do it as long as I can!!!!!!!! I hope that if you bring your Children to Awana then they will truly LOVE it too!!!!!!!!

By: Shaila (Age 7)

My soccer (Shaila)

I loved all of my soccer it was so much fun and I loved soccer this year! And I am hoping to maybe do it next year that would be so much fun and mostly my dad or mom would bring me. And they would cheer me on and my brother Connor sometimes would come to and he did soccer for a few year! That is how I got the idea of doing soccer, And my last game was last week I think. I think we won a few games! The teams we went against were very hard to go against! And it might be even harder teams to go against next year! And I went against red dark blue and... Oh I can not really remember but still I had lots of fun! And oh silly me I forgot to tell you we were the light blue team. And I had very good players on the team but two of them could not make it. And all of the players were very very very nice once I got to know them. And I am very glad about that. And really I think all of them were very nice even in the first day of soccer. And lots of them were there on the last day of my game! And my hole family came so did the twins and we all went out together and then one of my aunts came! Now that was a really nice thing! And my uncle could not come because he had to go to a problem at his work so ya. And he said that he was sad that he could not come. But so ya my soccer was super duper fun! Thank you for listening bye.

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Shaila's Birthday Essay (Shaila)

My Birthday in the fall,

I loved my birthday it was so much fun and we made apple dumplings and lots and lots of ice cream and then let me tell you a story about making that ice cream. So we were happily making ice cream and then the motor broke. And then it stopped and we all thought that it was very weird cause we did not know that the motor broke. So Ethan had to crank it by hand and then he came upstairs and said mom I think this is done so he came up with perfect ice cream but his face was red! It was so funny so yeah that is how we got our ice cream for my birthday and I loved it. Now let us get to the point of this hole entire thing I had a very fun time at my birthday party and it was little house on the prairie themed and it was amazing! And all of my friends came and I loved it so much! And we did little house on the prairie dolls they were the dolls they used for church the only dolls they could use for church and they are called handkerchief dolls and I did all sorts of races with my friends and it was so much fun and we got to get candy! And got to dance to music and I loved it so much it was the best thing ever and I am hoping to have another birthday party just like it. Oh and I got to dress up like little house on the prairie girls and the boys got to dress like boys and took care of the races. And I made a hole checklist and it was so much fun and just so we know that we have done all of the stuff for the party and everybody had so much fun and oh I was just going to tell you about the dolls they were so much fun to make and I think everybody loved making them so they are really made out of a handkerchief! My grandma found out how to do them online. And she showed us how to do it and I loved doing them she was so nice to show us how to do those and I loved to do them I hope you might be able to do one of those sometime. Maybe I can show you how and Ethan was doing school downstairs and he came up when we were dancing to Pa’s music. And somebody got a prize when they were on the right number. Oh and we had some donuts to eat and we ate the handmade ice cream with it and it was so much fun to eat and Ava and Emily and Lily and Chloe and Ellanah liked it to and I was the sixth girl there. I loved the party so much and what was really nice is that they all gave me presents. It was so nice of them to do that cause they did not have to do that for me. And I think you have heard all about my party and we have done so much this season. And some of the leaves have fallen of the trees now I will tell you about my real birthday. I got a new bike new jeans and a new dress and a new belt that goes with the dress and then I got to go out with my cousin Lydia. And we went out mini golfing and I had so much fun and I hope you liked listening about this but that is my birthday so bye see you later bye again.

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By: Shaila (Age 7)

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Happy Valentine's Day 2017! (Siobhan)

~Happy Valentine's Day~

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all have had a wonderful Valentine's Day. As always, we did some fun activities I wanted to share with you. I also am attaching links to our other Valentine's Day posts down below in red. Enjoy!

Mom always lays out chocolates and a small gift for each of us in the morning. Shaila and Brandan loved their new puppies!

 Baxter and Cade got these teething food feeders. This was Brandan's favorite teething toy! We fill them with mangoes, blueberries, and even ice cubes. They love sucking on them. 

 Shaila loves holiday hairstyles!

Click here to see our post on Valentine's Day hairstyles

 Our first Valentine's Day craft was these cute heart stamps. We simply folded toilet paper rolls to form a heart, and the kids stamped with them.

 

 Next we did these adorable little Bee Mine valentines. We used toilet paper rolls, construction paper, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners to make them.

I love Connor's addition of teeth 😁

I didn't get a lot of photos of the last craft, but it was so cute. It's a Valentine tree. We traced the kids' hands out of construction paper and left a thick border so that the 'tree' could stand up. I cut some hearts out of craft paper. Shaila glued them onto her hand cutout. These make super cute centerpieces!

Click the links below to see our other Valentine posts:

Valentine's Day Heart Chains

Frozen Olaf Valentine Tutorial

Heart Suncatcher Craft

Red Velvet Muddy Buddies

Valentine's Day Slideshow

Valentine's Day: Preschool Edition

 Valentines Tutorials

Groundhog Day 2017

~Groundhog Day~

Happy Groundhog Day 2017! Lydia and I did a lot of fun groundhog day activities with the kids. A lot of these are from previous years. As always, I'll highlight links to the templates/printables in red throughout the post.

Connor and Shaila love this video. It's from Punxtawney Phil's perspective and explains what Groundhog Day is.

 First we did a Happy Groundhog Day coloring page.

 Brandan absolutely LOVES preschool. He did an awesome job on this Groundhog Shadow Matching Game. There is a page with nine shadows on it, and I cut out the corresponding groundhogs for Brandan to match.

 

Next I cut out some blue rectangles out of construction paper and had them paste some green construction paper on top of that. Then the kids cut the top of the green construction paper into little strips so that it looked like grass. They colored this groundhog template and pasted it and cotton balls onto the paper. Very simple, but they had a lot of fun with it!

 Brandan's favorite craft was our toilet paper roll groundhog. All you need for this craft is this template and a gluestick or some tape.

Phil did see his shadow, so we settled in for our 'six more weeks of winter' by finishing off with an Addition and Subtraction Color By Number and some hot chocolate!

Click here to see last year's Groundhog Day post