Tuesday, June 30, 2009

weekly art group :: sidewalk chalk paint



This week we made sidewalk chalk paint and painted our patio area, which is now super pretty!


To make the paint, I mixed water, corn starch and food coloring. I used a good amount of corn starch, but kept the mixture on the watery side. I found the thicker it was, the harder it was to spread around.


This is a funny medium to work with. When you paint it on, the "paint" is pretty watery and does not look like it has too much color to it. But when it dries, it totally looks like chalk!


Of course, the kiddos ended up just pouring out the jars.. who needs a paint brush anyway?


Monday, June 29, 2009

family ortiz

This past weekend, we were in Pueblo, at a family reunion. Don has a HUGE family and this was my first reunion. Not as big as some in the past, but really fun to see and meet people.

I am still putting the puzzle pieces together, but I think I figured out that Don's grandpa has 19 brothers and sisters! WOW! From 3 different mothers (that is an interesting story that I am still sorting the details out about). I was looking through the family tree book and it seemed to be something like 50 pages long, and that is only the past few generations. Pretty cool to see some old photos and experience so much history in one family.

Here are some snap shots from our weekend...

Anabel is REALLY well loved by her cousins! I fear for anyone that does her wrong. Between her brother and her cousins that sorry sucker will be in big trouble.

My cutie girl...


Most of Don's aunts and uncles, with his mom, grandpa and grandma...


Classic.


Cousins...


My sweet nephew...


Me and Don...


Dancing and running around...


Boys..


Here is Don's Grandpa (2nd from the right) with some of his siblings...


Dancing with Daddy...


Our nephew again (he shares a birthday with Anabel!)


Brothers...


Walking with Daddy...


Enjoying the sunshine...


Our other nephew (handsome boy!)


Getting some love from her cousin...


Love this picture!


No family picnic is complete without some watermelon..


Don and his Grandpa...


A rare family photo with ALL of us!


It was a really great, surprisingly relaxing weekend!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

garden report

Well, we have everything in the ground and most everything peeking out of the soil!

Swiss Chard...


Peas...


Corn...


Cucumber...


Broccoli...


Beets...


Pumpkin (or could be another squash)...


Carrots...


Watermelon or Zucchini (I know it helps to label everything! Whoops!)


Lettuce.. the first thing I get to leave off my grocery list when I go shopping this week! Yay!


We also have some green beans, herbs, cauliflower, LOTS of tomato plants and some peppers. But they were camera shy this week!

I am totally digging growing stuff...It is alot of fun! Made even more cool by the excitement of getting to EAT our first goodies this week!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

weekly art group :: splatter paint

Summer means messy painting fun in my book, so we did another BIG painting project yesterday with the art group.

I have some large brown butcher type paper that I cut into big pieces and hung up on our clothes line.


I used washable paint this time so the rain will clean up the messes that we make.


I watered down the paint and put out lots of paint brushes for the kids to load up with paint and splatter all over their paper.


This was all I could get Enrique to do.. he just was not interested in art today, too bad..


Because all the other kids had SO MUCH FUN!


Especially Anabel. She was just so completely adorable getting into her project.


She seems to be getting more into art than Enrique these days..


Here is her finished painting.


And some of the other children's masterpieces:




Enrique was then happy that the painting was over so he could PLAY with his friends! He found himself a new pirate buddy!


I am going to need to go searching around the internet for some more great outdoor projects for us to do the rest of the summer!

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