Hale Household

Yes, We are a family who loves being at home {when we can!}. With the girls playing basketball and busy with all kinds of other school activities, friends and church we are often busy but we LOVE just being at HOME. Here are some FUN things going on at the casa...

One of my BFF's, Betsy, has become a pro at making homemade laundry soap. According to her research it comes out to costing only five cents per load of laundry. She made me some and brought it to me at Bible study this morning. I cant wait to use it and have a lesson in making my own real soon! Miss Em came home with her 3rd grade cabbage! She was so excited! This weekend she found the perfect place to plant it... In a hollow tree stump! I just hope it survives Jasper {the horse}.

This Friday I am thankful for my sporty, oldest daughter... She loves sports and gives it all that she's got!

Yes, I am going to be random today! And I think I will even number my random points!

1. The other night the girls cooked dinner for Will and I. It was super sweet. They are always wanting to cook us supper so Sunday night they made us supper. We had appetizers outside while we enjoyed a "show" on the trampoline. Then we came inside to a candle light dinner. They had set up the card table in the dining room and turned on a few lamps. So sweet!

Today is PaPa Jim's Birthday... PaPa Jim is a super sweet man. He married my mom a few years ago and loves my girls and Will and I like his own. Jim has been in the hospital for a week now with a blood clot in his leg... Yesderday Jim was transferred to a Houston Hospital so that he could have surgery today to help relieve the blood clot and hopefully solve this problem for good! It's not the way Jim or my mom wanted to celebrate his birthday but hopefully he will be on the road to recovery soon and the blood clot will not cause any more pain or threats to his other organs. Jim is now in ICU for the evening and recovering.

Please keep our PaPa Jim {the Birthday Boy} in your prayers!

Every one who knows Lainey, knows she is my little artist. Remember when she won the state wide contest for the "Trashing Texas Beaches" Campaign and her art work was in the State Capital?!? We are often approached by people who randomly see her draw something because they want to compliment her on her talent. She is so crafty! Lainey spends most of her free time drawing and creating. When Lainey Beth saw the art contest in the American Girl magazine she HAD to enter! This is the painting that she did for it! Yep, its ALL. ABOUT. SPACE! Her second LOVE... Second to ART!... And this is the envolope she mailed it off in...

Pee-Wee basketball is simply adorable! I love watching them play especially when Miss Em is involved. Emiley really does love basketball and she is pretty good! Em and her team the Red Hots had their first game this past Saturday and they played GREAT! Here is Miss Em as the forward!

Over the Christmas Break the girls went with DeeDee to learn how to make dolls from Leba {DeeDee's mom}. These dolls are made from "scratch". I mean they form the heads and hands and every piece of the doll. The girls were really excited about their two day project. Here they are working their clay that would later be their doll... This is the beginnings of their heads... It's amazing to me!

Sometimes it's fun...

Lainey Girl is always asking if she can cook supper. Not just HELP me with supper but cook supper all by herself. During the week this just isnt possible because I usually have supper "going" before the girls get home from school, so this weekend we let Lainey good supper ALONE! She was so excited! She got out my new measuring spoons, put on her new apron and got busy! She had her friends in the kitchen to help and they were the ONLY ones allowed in the kitchen. {These are the adorable hand-made owl and monkey that she got for Christmas. Perfect "Lainey" gifts!}