What to do with leftover Halloween make up.

On Pinterest I found a fun list of things to do with my kids. One of the things on the list was to let my kids give me a make over with my make-up. BUT I have to say I was kind of nervous to let my kiddos play with my cosmetics. I had let my daughter before but I was nervous on letting my 3 year old boy play with it. Hey I love my make up and I'm on a budget so I wasn't going to take the risk. So instead I decided to use our left over Halloween make up that I had saved. It ended up being a super fun activity that kept them entertained for quite awhile. They decided to do a Halloween theme again. Here's my daughter's make over!

 

Then she decided to do her brother's make up. Ofcourse he wanted to be HULK.

She was trying to draw his facial expressions.

Ofcourse she had to add a mustache!

Hahahaha love this picture!

And here's what we all looked like when we were finished.

So don't toss out the left over Halloween make up. Save it for a rainy day of fun!

Groovy Parents!

 

Nothing like watching your parents dance! Can't imagine how I'll be dancing with David when we're their age? Then maybe Natalie and Jaime will be laughing at me!

Bowling

Jaimito had his Pre-School fieldtrip to the bowling alley to celebrate the end of their study on balls! It was too much cuteness for me to handle!

 

A little mad because he couldn't get a strike!

Trying not to drop the bowling ball!

And trying to bowl like a proffessional!

How a fieldtrip re-affirmed the purpose of life!

A couple of weeks ago, a friend tagged me on a Facebook picture of a rainbow that said she hoped we had a colorful day and that God would bless us. It was a very nice gesture. Then someone who she had tagged answered back with a response that really made me sad. I won't quote word by word, but it was something to the extent of that he didn't need blessings from above because as far as he knew God had send us all to this Earth to suffer. He said he didn't understand why if we were so happy and comfortable in Heaven why would our Heavenly Father want to send us here to suffer so much.

 

I couldn't stop thinking about this comment, especially because it hit a cord with me. I too had felt like this once and I have heard many others say this too. But I had thankfully found understanding and peace and I wish I could find a way to share it with this person. But I let it go since I didn't know this person.

 

Then on a sunny Thursday morning I found myself getting ready to go on a school fieldtrip with my daughter. As we sat on the bus I watched her interact with her BFF, smiling, giggling and just full of excitement to be going to the planetarium.

 

I couldn't help but reminisce about my school days and all the wonderful memories I have of awesome fieldtrips. Especially the ones where my dad got to go with me. And now here I was, full circle, now my turn to see my daughter make her own memories. At that very moment my heart was full, a feeling of joy, of assurance, of gratefulness to my Heavenly Father came over me. At that moment I knew my Heavenly Father's Plan of happiness was perfect.

 

Yes we were in Heaven and yes it was great, but H.F. knew what it was like to experience mortal life. He too had experienced it. He knew that to progress and grow we needed to know sweetness from sourness. We choose to come here. We choose to follow his plan because we wanted to grow and learn as He did.

 

And yes life is hard. Yes life is full of horrible things. People do suffer. A lot of it are the consequences of our bad choices and H.F. has to let them be so that we learn.  We may not fully understand everything now but as I left my bad habits, as I turned to him once again with a humble heart and contrite spirit, as I repented and as I humbled myself to Him I received confirmation and peace in his gospel. I received more knowledge of my purpose and reason here on earth.

 

And I knew at that moment that even this simple but wonderful pleasure of rejoicing as I experienced seeing my daughter's smiling face was a gift from my H.F. A gift I wouldn't be able to have if I wasn't here on Earth living life. He allowed me to experience happiness as a child and made a perfect plan where as I grew and got to experience being the parent I can also experience another even greater joy. Yes I have had hardships, I have been sad, I have been hurt, and I still struggle through many of life's difficulties but non of those things even measured to the sweetness of this moment and of many other moments of blissful happiness and blessings. Many of which I wouldn't appreciate if I hadn't gone through many of those difficult times.

 

I also noticed that when I felt this way before, it was a time in my life when I wanted to be disobedient. When I wanted to give in to temptations or bad decisions. When I was being rebellious and then seeing the results of those bad choices. It's sad but true, most people who feel this way or who say such things are people who are relying on their own strength, people who have forgotten about God. We don't want to be humble and rely on God for guidance, we are proud and vain and blame our problems and choices and consequences on others, but especially God.

 

But even in many of the very famous movies my point is proven. Take the Matrix for instance, even though they had the choice of staying in a "sleep" and living in a controled enviroment they choose to be free. To experience life for themselves, to be ALIVE and have choice. In every story, movie or fairy tale, the characters want to experience happiness and sorrow for themselves. So yes, maybe we were in a very blissful state in Heaven, not knowing anything else but happiness, but we wanted more. We wanted to be able to grow and maybe to truly appreciate all that we had, but to do that we needed to experience mortality. We needed to experience sorrow too. In this I have a testimony of, I know I choose to come here. I choose to experience mortality even when I knew it would be hard at times.

But even the simplest experiences that would produce happiness would make it all worth it. Just like that day, being able to be with my daughter as she got to have a simple yet joyful experience in her young life. Something as simple as a fieldtrip full of laughs and memories I wouldn't have want to miss it for anything. If this brings me joy, I can only imagine what I will feel when my Heavenly Father receives me in his arms again.

Bows for the Primary Presentation.

Our Primary Presentation was last Sunday and it went wonderful. All the nerves, work and sweat payed off. The kids were wonderful and their singing was beautiful. We decided to make CTR shields to pin on the boys' white shirts. That was fairly easy. BUT for the girls we decided on making them some green bows to go with the green theme of the CTR shield. Well I had never made a hair bow before and I was feeling overwhelmed since I left it til the last minute. But I found a tutorial on YouTube and here's my version of it. Hope the pictures help.

 

The tutorial asked for thick 1" ribbon but all I had for the moment was this thin one. I cut strips into 8" strips.

Then I took one end and folded it in half twice so that it looked like this.

 




 Then I cut a piece off diagonally with scissors. Repeat the process on the other end of the ribbon.

This will give you nice clean and matching looking ends. Then carefully with a lighter burn the edges to prevent from fringing.

 

 The next steps take a couple of times to get right. It's more like eyeing it out. You make a first fold like so.

Then fold again like this.

 

And finally it should look like this after folding it one last time. So like I said you have to kind of estimate how much to fold so that it can come out even like this.

You then pinch it in the middle. It's a little difficult to get the folds in but after a couple of bows it got easier.

 

Then with a threaded needle you go through the center once and then just wrap the string around it a couple times and knott it up.

 

 It should look like this. You then just adjust here and there and you're almost done.
To finish it off you wrap a piece of ribbon around the middle section to cover of the string and to make it look nice, I used a glue gun to attach it. I choose a different color green to make it pop.

All I did then was add a bobby pin through the ribbon and voila, ready to wear. I think that for my first home made bow it came out pretty nice. I made about 15 of these and I regret not taking a picture of my primary girls because they looked so cute with these on.

I know these aren't the greatest directions but I'm learning. I just really wanted to share this with everyone even if my "tutorials" are horrible!