Miss P

CTR

My boys love playing with playdough. Actually, who doesn’t love playing with playdough? Instead of buying it, and because my boys think it’s so cool when we make things, I make my own. I found this great recipe online, and I LOVE it! It really does make the softest, squishiest, homemade playdough. It turns out perfect every time! I got it from this website, which is such a fun website! The link is right here.

PLAY DOUGH

1 cup flour

1 cup water

1/4 cup salt

2 tsp. cream of tartar

1 Tbls. vegetable oil

food coloring (I used 4 drops)

Just dump all the ingredients into your pot and give them a good stir.

Put your pot on the stove and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until it forms into a ball.

As soon as it joins into one big glob, take it off the heat and dump it onto your counter or some wax paper. Wait for it to cool, then knead it a few times until it is nice and soft.

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Parker came to show me what he made out of his playdough:. “CTR, Mom! Choose the Right!” He loves his new Primary class {CTR 5}, hence the reason for his creation. I think he feels like he is so grown up now.

Hunting

 

Parker and Preston have been anxiously awaiting a hunting trip with their father. Yesterday afternoon Ben took them into the woods to shoot some squirrels. It was a success! Ben said the boys were so excited when they scared up some squirrels. Ben had them go and search for them—and when Preston found the dead squirrel, he started “shucking and jiving”. {Picture him saying, “oh yeah! oh yeah! while dancing.}

When they came home, they brought the two dead squirrels into the house, which I immediately told them to take outside. Even coming from a home where it was normal to have my dad hunting all the time and bringing home wild game and it didn’t phase me at all, there was something about having two bushy tail squirrels in my kitchen. Plus, I think it traumatized Paisley who, at the moment, had been watching Bambi. Ha! The boys even helped Ben skin them, and they can’t wait to eat them. Yes, eat them. I will not be partaking. Oh, and as a side note, they are also excited to be able to keep the tails. {As long as they stay outside, I don’t care!}

Birthday!!!

 

{warning….picture overload!!!}

Apparently, we Lineberry’s know how to have a birthday! We have a Pre-Celebration, Birth-DAY Celebration, and a Post-Celebration! No joke! For some reason, we can’t just get it over with in a couple of hours—we like to prolong your birthday as long as possible! But, who’s complaining?

Since Ben had to work on Parker’s official birthday, instead of having his party that night, Mamaw and Papaw took me and the kids and Ester out for dinner. Parker chose the place: Outback! Yummy! Parker was adamant that he wanted a hamburger, and Preston wanted chicken fingers.

Birthday Boy with his balloons!

Brothers

Parker with his Papaw and Mamaw

Who’s having a Birthday? This guy!!!

 

On Saturday we had Parker’s “Birthday Party.” You wouldn’t know how many times I had to explain to Parker when his actual Birthday was, and when his party was. He was just excited to open presents!

We had a Primary Activity in the morning {Which Parker said was the “Best activity EVER!} And then we went to lunch at Jason’s Deli {Parker’s choice once again}

The girly girl getting all dolled up!

 

Yummy icecream!!

 

We then headed down to the bowling ally. It was a blast. The kids and grownups both enjoyed this time! We need to do it more often. {If it wasn’t so dang expensive! Seriously!}

Parker learning how to bowl

 

I love this next sequence of pictures. Parker cracks me up!

The men who went bowling

 

Preston bowling…he much rather would have kicked the ball down the lane

 

Bowling can be so exhausting!!!

 

Preston wanted to take his shoes home with him!

 

Blowing out the candles

 

Cutting the cake

Checking out his gift from Ester—Pistols

His “pop” gun. {that doesn’t actually “pop” but he doesn’t care. These are the first guns he’s been allowed to play with!}

I can’t believe my boy is already five years old! He is growing up way too fast. He’s super excited to now be old enough to play with guns. Silly boy!

Christmas Recap

#1 Opening up "Christmas PJ's" on Christmas Eve
#2 New "Christmas PJ's" {Paisley's hair is always in her face!}
#3 Sprinkling Reindeer Food on front porch. Hopefully Santa will come!
#4 Christmas morning. Best. Present. Ever. {According to Parker and Preston}





#5 Paisley Christmas morning, next to her "palace". She has been playing with this toy every day since Christmas. No joke.
#6 Christmas Breakfast. Pancakes. Breakfast casserole. Sausage. Fruit. Juice. Yummo! {Check out Parker! What a nut!}
#7 Paisley wearing a gift for the new baby! What you can't see is her high heels she's wearing.
#8 Parker ready to go hunting.

35 days

The days are going by so fast. Soon baby number 4 will make her grand appearance. Hopefully by that time we will have decided on a name. For some reason, I keep coming up with names, confirming that “this is the one” and then change it. I don’t know if it’s because this will be the last time we get to name a baby so we better make it “good”, or the fact that she will have to live with the name for the rest of her life. In either case, I think this has been the most difficult name to decide on.

5 years old

Seriously, where has the past 5 years gone? I can’t believe Parker has turned 5. I love this little guy!!!

Happy Birthday, big guy!

Overheard

Parker was saying the prayer tonight at dinnertime. It went a little like this:

“……please bless the food that it will nourish our bodies. Please bless me when I get a pop-gun for my birthday I won’t point it at anyone. I say these things in the name……”

Gift Giving

I have to admit, my Mother-in-law is the hardest person to shop for. {No offense, Donna!} She doesn’t need a lot of stuff, and if she does want something, she’ll go out and buy it. Which makes it really hard for Birthday’s, Mother’s Day, and Christmas!! What do you get someone who means the world to you, would give you the shirt off her back, and you could never in a million years repay?

Though nowhere near being close to “repaying” her, this year, I think we got her figured out. And, she loved it! Yeah!

We ordered from Deseret Book the Beehive Cake Pedestal. It is gorgeous! Who wouldn’t love having a great big Pollyanna cake sitting in the middle of that thing? And then, the boys picked out a plain glass jar from Target, and with a little vinyl lettering, we turned it into “Mamaw’s Sweet treats” Jar. {And look at those yummy snickerdoodles!}

I have been so blessed to have such a wonderful Mother-in-law. I wish there were more ways that I could show my appreciation, because there isn’t a day that doesn’t go by that I’m not grateful for all she does for our little family.

Bikes

The kids got bikes for Christmas from their Auntie Ester. They were super excited to test them out…..unfortunately we received record amounts of snowfall Christmas weekend, that they had to settle for riding their bikes around the house. {Thanks, Mamaw, for being patient and letting the boys test drive their bikes on your living room and kitchen floors…and for the countless black marks on your linoleum, cabinets, and refrigerator!}

The weather was in the 60’s yesterday, the snow melted, and we brought the boys back out to Mamaw and Papaw’s house so they could ride on their long driveway. It was a blast! At first we didn’t have helmets on the boys boys, and within 5 minutes, Parker fell face first and scraped his nose. Granted, I don’t know if a helmet would have saved his face in this case, but we did put helmets on them like we were supposed to! Parker’s poor face—thank goodness he didn’t knock any teeth out. {Since he does have permanent teeth in now!}

You can’t catch me, Dad!!

Even Papaw had a turn!!!

Paisley and her Daddy

Paisley kissing Parker’s “Boo Boo” better

Preston is growing up so fast!!

Parker’s skinned up face. Poor guy!