Catch the Sun

 Catch the Sun

Jessica over at Barefoot by the Sea Click Here featured her sun catchers a few weeks ago. My boys decided to give this idea a try. They enjoyed it and made four different sun catchers.

What You Need

A pie plate

A glass to set in the center of the pie plate

Bits of nature 

 Water

Strong string

Cold temps (we will have plenty of that in Wisconsin this week)

 Gather your materials. 

Fill your pan with water.

Place your nature, cranberries, orange peel or other fun ideas in your pie plate.

Freeze

We made ours outside. We used a tin pie plate.  We filled the pie plate with water. We set our glass in the middle and then decorated it. We added pine, pine cones and cranberries in our first sun catchers. In the second, we used cranberries and oranges. 

We let them sit over night, the next day we popped them out of the tin pie plate. 

We pulled our string through the hole and hung our pretty sun catchers up.

 

 Cranberries, pine and pine cones.

 Cranberries and oranges.

A fun surprise for us is seeing the birds land on the sun catchers and pick at the berries.

The sun glowing in the sun catcher is beautiful too.

A fun, simple idea to enjoy Winter's beauty.

 

 

On the Road Friday ~ River Falls Public Library to the NASA Exhibit

Hello, today is Friday. The day we take a trip.

Today we are heading to River Falls, Wisconsin to visit the library.

Click here to check out the River Falls Library 

Astronaut Atticus

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

 

Astronaut Carla

Astronaut Sam

 After looking at the food, we have decided not to become astronauts.

 We all know the story about Laika the Cosmonaut Dog of the Soviet Union. 

Did you know about the other animals that went up to space?

 Our world at night. 

We enjoyed our time visiting the NASA Exhibit. We learned several things we did not know about space and the race to space with the Soviet Union.

NASA Exhibit: Voyages of Discovery

Have a great weekend.

 

A Chill'in Hodgepodge

 

Joyce asks the questions

We answer the questions

 

Click here to join the fun!  

 

 

 

1. When did someone last suggest you 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell someone (or want to tell someone) to 'chill out'? Or, when did you last tell yourself to 'chill out'? 

 

I am one of those people who thinks I need to get it all done today! So if I get behind on my To Do List, I start to get irritated. Over the years I have gotten better. I am making it a goal to Chill Out and just enjoy what I can get done in a day. Or take a break and just chill out, slow down and just chill out!  

 

 2. What most recently caused your heart to melt? 

 

Atticus

 My husband and I both recently celebrated birthdays. 

Our two boys presented both of us with homemade birthday cards with very sweet messages inside. My boys are growing up and the special times of sharing dreams always melts my heart.

Samuel

 

 3.  "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G.K. Chesterton 

 

 

  Your thoughts? When did you last experience either an adventure or an inconvenience? How did you see it at first, as an adventure or an inconvenience?  Does it feel the same in hindsight?

 

My sister treated me to a visit to the Windy City for my birthday in December. It was both our first visits to the city of Chicago. It was a true adventure. You learn so much your first time visiting a city. We had a great time traveling on the city bus. Asking locals for directions. Learning you must make reservations to eat some place fun on a Saturday night. ☺ It was a true adventure. 

 

 4.  A Wendy's Frosty, root beer in a frosty mug, or a frosted chocolate cupcake...of these three, which one is your favorite 'frosty' treat?

 

 

 One of my favorite recipes. Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

Click here for recipe 

 

 5. Would you say your life so far this year has been more like a circus or a symphony? Explain why.

Our goal as a family is to  try and slow down and enjoy. And so far, we have enjoyed the symphony of HOME, family and friends.

We are aware of time management and how we have to manage our time wisely.

 

 6. Since it's a 'snow day' here, what's your favorite song containing the word 'white'?

 

♫♪  White Christmas ♫♪

Bing Crosby

 

7. If you had to leave the city you currently live in, what would you find the hardest to leave behind?

 

Our friends. We are not originally from the area that we live. We do not have family that live close to us. Friends become important and a true treasure.

 

 8. Insert your own random thought here.

 

 

Happy Winter

 ♥