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Last weekend we were able to go out and pick up our pumpkins. We look forward to the years we can afford to do this extra outing. Last year we didn’t do the outing, but we did get pumpkins from Walmart to carve. This year we did the whole trip right down to donuts, and cider. Dennise had the camera most of the time so what I have is what we have. I did take over to get a picture of the girls though. Hope you enjoy. </div>
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Deanna is so excited we are at the pumpkin farm.</div>
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Lilly sitting pretty on the pumpkins.</div>
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It was a bit cold out and she was more interested in the shadows on the ground then looking up at Grandma.</div>
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Lilly found her pumpkin. I told Samantha she could pick out a bigger one, but she said she wanted her to have one she could carry.</div>
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Two carts one for the girls and one for the pumpkins. I think in this picture Deanna is picking out her pumpkin.</div>
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Here are my girls.</div>
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Here we are all ready to leave with our pumpkins to carve which comes next week. I hope you enjoyed this post and will stop back next week for the carving pumpkins with Marksville.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making Slime with <a href="http://www.marksvilleandme.com/">MarksvilleandMe</a></span></div>
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It has been a while so thought I would share something we have made with all of our children, which would be about 20 years or so from when my son was old enough to play with it without putting it in his mouth.</div>
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We found the original recipe on something I got free from a <a href="http://%22the%20ultimate%20book%20of%20kid%20concoctions/">Tide</a> promotion, if anyone remembers this promotion let me know so I can give the credit to them, my husband just informed me that he still has the activities from this copied onto his computer. A few years later we found another recipe in a book called "<u>The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions</u>" by John E Thomas and Danita Pagel Thomas, which we had orginally bought from <a href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC</a> but can be found online by searching for the above book on your favorite search engine.</div>
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We also have "<u>The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions 2</u>" by John E Thomas and Danita Pagel Thomas if you are interested in two great books to provide years of fun for your children, grand children, their friends, and I can't lie but also for the Grown ups who still like to have fun, then these might be something you would like to look into. </div>
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My 11 year old daughter Deanna really wanted to make some and even though I wanted to hold off until this weekend so that we could do it while my oldest grand daughter Lilly is here but we compromised to make slime today and other concoction on Saturday so check back later in the week to early next week for another post.</div>
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OK so on to the recipe we used this time.</div>
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You will need a bowl, spoon, 1/4 measuring cup, <a href="http://www.elmers.com/">Elmers Glue</a> (although you could use any white school glue), Liquid Starch (we buy <a href="http://www.staflostarch.com/">Sta-Flow</a> because it is the only brand I know of, but if you have another liquid starch available I am sure that would work just fine too), and some tap water. Food Coloring if you want to make different colors.</div>
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As most of you know my husband cooked and baked for us over the weekend which you can see in my prior posts, so that was his Valentines Day present to us this year. We didn't have much money so we had to make due with what we had in the house. I do have a few pictures to share though so I hope you enjoy.</div>
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Deanna had a project for school which she turned in last Monday. It was to make a valentines day box for her Valentines. Hey if it is a craft our family is on it. Deanna did this one except for me cutting the heart out all on her own. She sure has her fathers and my creative flare. Hope you like it, I think it came out beautiful. She made this from a Corn flake box, wrapping paper, glue, tape, construction paper,and valentines day flyers.</div>
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My mother-in-law God bless her heart bought us a huge Valentines day Heart filled with chocolates, and a little pink fluffy doggie for Lilly which isn't shown as we already gave it to her she loves it. Will see if I can get a picture of her with it to add at a later time here.</div>
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I know the kids will be enjoying their chocolates tonight. They didn't have them over the weekend as we had planned because Dennis had made those delicious molten lava cakes. Me I am looking forward to the clearance candy after the Holiday. I sure hope you had a wonderful Valentines day. I know Marksville sends love out to each and everyone of my family, and friends for a day filled with love, hugs, and kisses. Happy Valentines day!</div>
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Dennise noticed these really festive pages in the Sunday paper so she took them all out and laid them on top of the papers she already put down. What a great idea.</div>
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In some of the pictures you will notice a half white and half orange wall, the white wall was where the tiles use to be that kept falling apart so Dennis took them down and is working on getting the wall ready for new paint.</div>
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Dennis was working so hard helping others with their tops, that he didn't get to his until today.</div>
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I hope you all enjoyed Pumpkin Carving with Marksville. Below is a picture of everyone's except for my husband's which I will add when we light them tomorrow night, as his was not ready when we did the first Pumpkin line up. Next year I would love if Buke and Taylor could join in so we have the whole family together.</div>
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Remember me saying all I was missing was Buke and Taylor? Well...</div>
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There is my Gorgo on their lap and if you look in the window you will see my Sable they are my two grand- furbabies.</div>
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MarksvilleandMehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832313747256220852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999712308847540948.post-56348210540115293162014-01-18T21:33:00.001-08:002014-01-18T21:33:25.338-08:00Arts and Crafts in Marksville.<div class="articleText" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.000001907348633px; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 15px;">
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As I said when we got home yesterday from dropping Samantha off, we had a extra child spending the night. We always do different things when the kids have friends over but last night they got into making these huge handing stars or snowflakes.</div>
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Here is Deanna and her friend working on making these big snowflakes. I had to kick them off of the desk and send them to the kitchen because Dennis wanted his desk back.</div>
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Thankfully there was no school because they were up quite late doing this project.</div>
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Here the girls are with their first project.</div>
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Then they got out even more and made some for themselves. By the way Marksville needs more construction paper before Valentines Day now.</div>
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When you visit Marksville you are sure to find lots of cooking, baking, crafts, music, games, parties, laughter and lots of excitement. I am glad that my children have fun with their friends when they come over. I know they are safe and I get to know the children they hang out with.</div>
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Hope you enjoyed Arts & Crafts with Marksville. If you would like to see the directions for these you can look me up on Pinterest and it will be under my Crafts for Kids Board.</div>
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MarksvilleandMehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832313747256220852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999712308847540948.post-74986324396103895842013-03-30T10:53:00.001-07:002013-09-04T22:44:10.420-07:00Decorating Eggs with Marksville We haven't really decorated eggs all that much with the kids over the years. Not that I haven't had ideas, it is just we have gone more for the celebrating together on Easter day. I realized that even though it can get messy, they are fun to do. The girls had a blast. We went with marbleizing the eggs this year. <br />
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If you haven't heard about it you can do the same with either plain eggs, or lightly dyed eggs. Even though some of our eggs were on the darker side you can still see that the marbleizing went well. My kids still like to draw with white crayons so you can see what those kind of eggs looked like after marbleizing too.<br />
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Here you can see Dorothy's and Deanna's before marbleizing, sorry about no faces we were having so much fun we had to stop to get the camera and Dennise ended up taking the pictures.<br />
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Here they are after marbleizing. The kids ended up eating 3 before they were done with them.<br />
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That is all for this year. I noticed I didn't put up my post with the homemade baskets I did last year for the girls, but maybe next year if I get inspired to make our own again. I was cheap and bought the 1.00 baskets this year. I hope you enjoyed decorating eggs with our family.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span>MarksvilleandMehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832313747256220852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999712308847540948.post-64259638736410038232011-07-16T20:15:00.000-07:002012-04-11T19:02:23.065-07:00Sand Castle ContestBright and early this morning we set off for the Sand Castle Building Contest. It was at 9am on a Saturday morning so we were in for the fun. I would have loved for Dennis to go, but he got called into work so he made some extra money and we still got to have fun. What is better then that.<br />
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We had a warm welcome and scoped out a area. <br />
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Samantha even got down to play in the sand.<br />
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Here they are working hard.<br />
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Deanna gathered flowers for her castle yesterday and kept them in a cup of water so she would have them for today. I think they all did great, and this is just one of the many fun things we have planned for this summer. Until my next post I hope you all have a great summer, and don't forget to take some time to play in the sand.MarksvilleandMehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832313747256220852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999712308847540948.post-75215501422491851292011-07-15T17:30:00.000-07:002011-07-15T17:51:31.988-07:00Dorothy's first Library ClassMany families like my own are looking for cheap or inexpensive ways to keep their kids busy this summer, that are fun, but have a bit of educational value as well. Dorothy loves being read to so the Library was the perfect place to start. You may be surprised to find out how many things you can do at your local Library. We are lucky and have a brand new Library. They are still working on the landscape but you will see that in another one of my posts soon.<br /><br />We signed Dorothy up for<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXyjwwKE5vJDC62GDXUce3mrn92qO1UK9_xpxoWJ3i0kipmGTielnxfxpARcVb7xMzwsO76yGg0kA79vcMizHZ43OE54U76UJVdGgch5WGO6mgEJBcjEUEqiuynVvowAcY3EifrjX4hY/s1600/AnimalAntics.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 275px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 276px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629742126109010370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXyjwwKE5vJDC62GDXUce3mrn92qO1UK9_xpxoWJ3i0kipmGTielnxfxpARcVb7xMzwsO76yGg0kA79vcMizHZ43OE54U76UJVdGgch5WGO6mgEJBcjEUEqiuynVvowAcY3EifrjX4hY/s320/AnimalAntics.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The very first animal they learned about was the Elephant. They read the book Elmer by David McKee.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2BoeJcNrDe_EpoBrXTBavAx9ru13TpB_D47imbY4PDGziMlbjL5xIDpZHWxloWfUx0f3JZhgUU54TbC_u9yBJ8IMTVo8urKozVnLox8I0gmxcWT5oJxprSRYE4sYOG-TLl83Mlk1izM/s1600/Elmer.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 136px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629742127271536498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2BoeJcNrDe_EpoBrXTBavAx9ru13TpB_D47imbY4PDGziMlbjL5xIDpZHWxloWfUx0f3JZhgUU54TbC_u9yBJ8IMTVo8urKozVnLox8I0gmxcWT5oJxprSRYE4sYOG-TLl83Mlk1izM/s320/Elmer.jpg" /></a><br /><br />They did a neat project. Do you see Elmer?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0Z1aTwQBE_sLd8CRBQnKBMnqs0YJM39cq6Eyw6yd1wd5RTAUQIfyhIBTdldLp8GcEG495O_fGNR-ExsP0bV8zvKOyyXVkWQIPvEuxpDXRThRU3uj6k8tRqonIwMddgwHQK2GKwi7QFg/s1600/IMG_1489.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 179px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629742131923334898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0Z1aTwQBE_sLd8CRBQnKBMnqs0YJM39cq6Eyw6yd1wd5RTAUQIfyhIBTdldLp8GcEG495O_fGNR-ExsP0bV8zvKOyyXVkWQIPvEuxpDXRThRU3uj6k8tRqonIwMddgwHQK2GKwi7QFg/s320/IMG_1489.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />After the craft they read another book. Now I have to put in a side story here. As soon as I saw they were doing a elephant I wanted to go right home and read "Stand Back Said the Elephant I'm going to Sneeze" by Patricia Thomas. Well wouldn't you know it that was the book they had already selected to read to the kids. I think I was more excited then the kids were over it. 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They didn't tell us what it would be, but she made a guess it would be Bears. I hope you enjoyed Dorothy's first class with Animal Antics, and maybe even take the time to read one or both of these books with your children, granchildren, or neighbors kids. You can never read too much to your child.MarksvilleandMehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02832313747256220852noreply@blogger.com0