FHE

Hi Ladies!!



Lately I've realized how important FHE is. 2008 my new year's resolution was to have FHE every monday night. I was good for a little while but I didn't feel like Landon was getting anything from it and slacked off. I got the idea a few months ago to do the same topic all month long and so far it's worked great. The first Monday I do a quick review of the topic and the next week we review and add to it. Also, I will keep the visual aid stuff I used on the lesson out all week and talk to Landon about it. I am very impressed at how much Landon has learned/reatained this way. If you have a hard time deciding what to have your lesson on, the Friend has a page with sharing time ideas that work great. They are on the theme for that month and there is a new idea for each week of the month. I love it-the lesson and topic are already prepared, I just have to read through it and put everything together.

St Patty's Day Fun

I thought I'd post some fun thing we did with the kids on St Patty's Day. The "Leprechauns" (sp?) left us some lucky charms for breakfast and put greeen food coloring in our milk. We had green jello-new flavor of watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew with our lunch. We also make the pillsbury 3 leaf clover sugar cookies. Also for dinner we had green french toast-nothing too fancy, gotta do something the kids like.

When the girls woke up they were sent on a treasure hunt and at the end found green bowls with gold wrapped candy and a green hot wheels car in them.

Of course we all wore green that day too. Cambree was so excited to celebrate another holiday.

TRAFFIC JAM

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BABY TAGGIE BLANKET

My first attempt at something like this and I have to say it went pretty well.


INSTRUCTIONS

1- Cut two 12 x 12 inch squares of fabric, preferably something soft and cozy. I used that really soft fabric (I don't know the name) on both sides, but have also seen them done with flannel or silky fabric on one side for a contrasting feel.

2- You need coordinating colors of ribbon, cut into 4 inch strips. I did a total of 32 ribbons (1 on each corner and 7 on each side) but depending on the width of your ribbon you can use less. Try to find a variety of patterns and textures in your ribbon combo.

3- Lay your fabric right-side up. fold the ribon strips in half and pin them to the edge of the fabric, with the folded edge toward the middle. Pin the ribbons in the middle first, then the corner ribbons diagonally over the corner.

4- Sew around the edges of the square to attach the ribbon tags, taking out the pins along the way. Backstitch on each ribbon to secure them to the fabric.

5- Take the other square of fabric and place it right-side down on top of the tagged one, pin it together. The tags should be inside and the blanket should look inside-out.

6-- Sew around the outside, starting in the middle of one of the sides. Sew all the way around the square, leaving a 2 inch opening for turning right-side out. Don't forget to back-stitch at start and finish.

7- Trim around the edges and cut a diagonal edge on the corners.

8-- Turn right-side-out, making sure to square the corners off. Iron it flat.

9-- Either top-stitch around the edges for a finished hem-look, or hand-sew your opening shut.

Snuggle and enjoy!