Father's Day 2011

We went to the pool and grilled steaks for Father's Day. Christian's Play Station 3 broke and he bought himself a new one for Father's Day.

Father's Day 2010

Yesterday, we celebrated Father's Day with a delicious steak dinner and chocolate cake with peanut butter icing. Two of Daddy's favorites!

Out of the World DAD!

Our summer fun theme is "Lost In Space" this year at AUMC. And to go along with our theme, we made aliens to give to Dad for Father's Day. Very simple mirror painting in green and then we added eyes and a mouth.

Apple Of My Eye

This is what my preschool class made for Father's Day this year. Did apple prints in red and finger prints in green to make the leaf and worm. I thought they turned out really cute.

Father's Day Possibilities

Father’s Day is next weekend and I have been looking for something cute to do with the kids for Christian. Here are a few possibilities.

This cute shirt idea was sent to me in an email from Michaels.

Family Fun had this very easy “D A D” cake. I Love You Daddy Poem from Kaboose.
Wise Guy Cupcake from Disney Family Entertainment looks deliciously adorable.
Here is the card we made for Christian last year.
Danielle's Place has lots of cute ideas too.

Decisions...Decisions

Year End Teacher Gifts

This year, I made all ten of the kids’ teachers a Word Cloud or a Wordle. Here is an example of the one I made for HHE using all the teachers/administrators names and school words.

I emailed each teacher the following letter:
Hi
I am going to make your year end gift and I need your help to make it better. Please provide me with the following information to make your gift more special. Just skip any areas that don't apply. The more info you provide me the better.
What color tones do you like (Greens, Blues, Maroons, Other):
Names (your name, spouse, children & their spouse, grandchildren):
Nicknames (if any):
Names of your pets (if any):
If you have grandchildren, what do they call you and your husband?
Places or words that have meaning to you (college, favorite team, hobby, pets, nicknames, etc.): The more words the better!

Then you take the list of words and type them up in a word document. I added the following words deleting the ones that did not apply: fortunate happy kin loving parents offspring relatives wonderful hope love blessed faith son daughter sister brother daughter-in-law son-in-law trust wish dream ancestors joy mother father mom dad Hidden~Hollow elementary school educator Family Family Family

The words you want to appear larger you will need to list more times. I did last names and the word Family three times, first names twice and the remainder of the words just once. If you have two words that you want to appear together, you will need to us a ~ in place of the space.

Once you have your list of words, go to

http://www.wordle.net/create. Copy and paste your list of words into the “Create” box and press “Go”. The next screen will allow you to pick your colors, fonts and layout. My personal preference is “Heat” for the Color, “Mostly Horizontal” for the Layout and “Loved by the King” for the Font. Once you are happy with your settings you can “Re-layout with current settings” or “Recolor” until you are happy with the finished product. Once I was happy with the look, I printed them on an 8.5 x 11 piece of photo paper and place them in a document frame. Here is an example of how they turned out.

We got the nicest thank you notes from all the recipients. These also make great Mother's Day Gifts!