The quiet books

So I decided to make the kids quiet books. We are taking a long long trip to Arizona and Utah for Christmas so we needed some stuff to entertain the kids. I have been working on this for the past 2 months. It has been fun but I am ready to be done. I am finished with Jonathan's but I still need to do some work on Natali's. Lets just hope I finish it in the next 3 weeks:) I will give you a walk through...

 Page one of Jonathan's. I made a car that Velcros and Jonathan can also drive his cars on it as well.

 The tree page has leaves and flowers to Velcro to the tree and they can put it in the grass pocket. The farm page. You can open the doors and pull the pig, chicken, and cow out and they are finger puppets.

 The mail box page. I made envelopes and little letters inside and the kids can open the mail box and mail them off:)

 This is the mr potato head. The basket has the parts and they can put the face on him.

 Velcro numbers to help him recognize his numbers. also the shoe lace page. I need the lace still.

 Here is a pond. The fish have a magnet in them and the fishing pole also has a magnet. they can go fishing:)

 The boat has a zipper and the fish are velcro and he can put the fish in the zipper pocket.

 Here is Natali's. A lady bug with a zipper. The dots can snap on and off and can be put into the zipper pocket. Also the Shoe lace which needs a lace as well.

 Little girl with a basket of clothes that can be dressed. she also has the pond.

 She has he barn and tree page like Jonathan

 Natali's mail box and letters

 Mrs. potato head

 Natali get color pages. she knows her colors but to remember which one is which is hard for her. I am not done with the color pages. I will have the names and flowers with buttons that she can pull off.

Well I hope  they like it. they can use them for church and for the trip. I hope you enjoy this. Sorry they are not the best in the world but I have loved working with this project.

Christmas Tree

The kids are finally old enough to help with the tree. they had so much fun!

jamestown and williamsburg

Like many of you know I love history and every thing about it:) On veterans day the Active duty military and the veterans get some free things. So we took advantage of that. On that Saturday we went to the Great Falls on the boarder of Maryland and Virginia. If was fun and very beautiful! We got in free and also got a year pass for all national parks. So we can go hiking a lot in the Spring. that's what we are excited for. That Monday we decided to take a trip down to Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia. I loved it all!

Halloween

 In front of our house ready to get some candy!

We walked around Normandy Bluff (that's where we live) housing area and hit up all the houses and filled the buckets:)