I had to make sure I wrote down some things our family was thankful for this holiday season. Here is what we put on our leaves.
good root beer, parks, holy ghost, scripture scouts, dad's job, friends, Pink flamingos, Heavenly Father, America, Jake's blanket, school, disneyland, Jesus Christ, family, grandma, our brother, Pres. Monson, Shamu, fresh squeezed orange juice, grandpa, education, sunshine, arts and crafts, meat and fruit, baked goods and our house.
For Activity Days tonight, we are making thankful garlands out of leaves. I used my cricut and cut out a lot of leaves in different fall colored cardstock. The girls are going to write what the are thankful for on each leave and we will make a garland for them to take home and put up in their room.
I am going to challenge them to write in their journal every day this month one thing they are thankful for and thank Heavenly Father each night in their prayers and if they do it for the rest of the month, I will sign off an experience in their Faith in God books.
Also, I was approached by another Activity Day leader to have our girls be pen pals with each other. I love the idea. I used to do that when I was a kid. So, tonight we will also be writing leaders to girls in Hawaii to start our pen pal program.
NOTE: I also did this thankful garland activity for Family Home Evening last week and we have the garland proudly displayed in our home. The kids loved it and it reminds Hannah to say thank you for things during her prayers. I love that!
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I have been wanting to get a Little People's nativity set for our family for a few years now, but never felt like it was worth it for almost $40 (our Target carries it for $35 plus 9% tax). But today, I found on another blog that you can order it for $24 (shipped). SO, I jumped on that.
I thought I better pass the deal on, since i am so happy someone spread the word so I could take advantage of it. Here is the information:
Family Christian Stores is having 33% off one item. Code is 122084203 (enter the code during checkout and hit apply). They are having an extra 25% sale right now, so that is how the price got so low. I am not sure how long the code or sale is going on, so better take advantage of it while you can.
Hope this helps someone, like someone helped me!
I wanted to share a simple thank you gift that you can give any time this fall. My husband needed a quick thank you gift and bought these Martinelli's sparkling apple cider. I decided since it was fall, why not just make some leaves out of cardstock and pretty ribbon and wa-laa.
It was so easy and I think they look so nice. Like I always say... it is in the presentation. If it is presented right, anything looks worth having.
The winner of the Silhouette Products is
TABATHA STIMPSON
She said "fun machine".
Tabatha you have 48 hours to contact me in order to receive your prize. If I don't hear back from Tabatha in 48 hours, I will randomly pick another winner.
thanks all for participating. And I have another giveaway coming up soon! 
There is only 1 1/2 more days left for the Silhouette Product Giveaway. I wanted to show one more project i did with the heat transfer rolls. A few disclaimers... my camera died, so I had to use my point and shoot and it doesn't do these projects justice. The color is off and it is grainy, but hopefully you get the picture.
I had these old 18X24 canvas panels in storage and thought... they are so big, I should be able to use them for something worthwhile and that is when I came up with this. I covered the canvas with fabric and ironed on fabric princess silhouettes and used the heat transfer rolls for the words.
Now you could use the heat transfer rolls for the whole things, but i didn't have enough and I liked the colors i had in fabric, so these worked too. I added some glitter for the headbands to add a little shimmer. And then tied it up with ribbon. I loved how they turned out. I would have done the words a bit different, but overall... it worked.
Seriously, so much that can be done with the silhouette products. Go to my post for the giveaway and leave a comment to enter to win. Click here, you have until Nov 10th at noon.
As soon as I found out I was getting the silhouette products to play with, I knew right away I wanted to make these shirts. And the heat transfer rolls were just what I needed.
I have seen variations of homemade disney characters t-shirts and thought how fun for would it be if each family member got to choose a disney character and then come up with a famous quote for each character. See if you can guess which quote goes with which character before you scroll down. They aren't that hard if you know anything about Disney and who doesn't.
Here is what our little family choose. I love how they turned out. And we are going to wear them to Disneyland this month and get our picture taken with their holiday decorations and hopefully (here's praying) we can get a christmas card photo with our shirts. 
Obviously, you can do anything with the heat transfer rolls. Put your kids name on the back of a sport team t-shirt, make your own fun, custom t-shirt or embellish a simple tote bag or pillow case with some funky, fun designs. All of which would be fun to give as gifts this coming holiday season.
If you haven't entered the Silhouette giveaway on my blog, click here and leave on comment on that post. So far your odds are good!
This week for Activity Days, we had a Plan of Salvation lesson. We talked about the plan of salvation to see what the girls knew and filled in the "bits and pieces" they didn't know. We cut out the "artwork" above and then laminated them. We then put them in their envelope for safe keeping.
The goal was for the girls to use these pieces and teach their families the Plan of Salvation for Family Home Evening. If they did this, I told them I would sign off their Faith in God activity under Learning and Living the Gospel.
I didn't do this, but if you are up for it... it would add to the activity greatly. I should have written out a "test" on the Plan to help them learn the Plan. Questions like "Where did we live before we came to earth?" "What two reasons did we come to earth?" 'Where do we go after we die?" What comes first the resurrection or judgement?" And have blank spaces for them to fill in the questions. That way they could keep this paper in their envelope and use it to help teach their Family Home Evening lesson. Too bad I didn't think of this until I was going to sleep that night.
If you would like to download the labels or Plan of Salvation Artwork, click on the links below:
Labels
Plan of Salvation art
So much has happened during the month of October and I haven't kept up with them on my blog. So this post will be a catch all for the things we did in October.
Ella's preschool class went to the Big Fresno Fair. We got to see the animals, gemstones, agriculture and all the sights and sounds. The best part was Jake just going nuts over all the live animals. He was in seventh heaven being able to see all the sheep, cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits and turkeys. Between the two of them, i know they had a great time.
We also made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. Hannah went with her girl scouts. They all got to search the patch for their own pumpkin and my girls definitely searched for the perfect pumpkin. Hannah is a daisy in girl scouts this year and LOVES going every time.
Ella had her school costume parade. She loved parading around her school and she made quite the scene with her wooden shoes clumping all around school grounds. All the kids were so cute and it is always fun to see what kids are each year and the fun creative costumes.
Lastly, our pumpkin carving night. Hannah is getting so old that she was scrapping and pulling out the pumpkin insides all on her own. She even designed her own pumpkin herself. You will notice several shapes had to make their way onto the pumpkin. I was instructed to cut as she had drawn it and no variation. Ella just enjoyed watching her dad work on her pumpkin.
I am having a super fun giveaway on my blog and I am excited about it. This is my first "real" giveaway on this blog... I'm not sure why I haven't done one before.
Silhouette is Giving a $50 Bundle Package away for FREE! And one lucky "A Bushel and a Peck" reader will receive the following:
2 Heat Transfer Rolls {Yellow & White Smooth}
1 Tattoo Pack
1 Magnet Sheet
I was able to get my hands on these products and had some fun making some projects for my family and kids. I will show you those projects in the next few days, but here are some ideas of things you can do with the products.
THE MAGNET SHEETS: I didn't have a party to use the magnet paper for this month, but using magnets for invitations are so simple and great. I have done this in the past and everyone that received the invitations LOVED the idea of using magnets for invitations. They could put the invites right on the fridge and always be reminded of the party.
Also, you can use magnet paper for important information that you need have readily available. Like this.
THE TATTOO PACK:Tattoos would be fun to use at birthday parties, school carnivals, holidays (4th of july or Halloween). So many uses and occasions to use these this fun pack.
That should get you started! Go and visit the Silhouette America site for more fun products and projects.
AS FOR THE GIVEAWAY DETAILS -
The Giveaway begins today November 1st through the November 10th at noon. All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog telling me what you would do with the products if you won or what products you like on the Silhouette website!
The winner must live in the United States and they can only win once {no matter how many blogs they enter}.
And as a nice added bonus
**Silhouette is also offering 25% off on all their accessories with the code: CRAFTSROCK {Runs through November 13th at midnight!} Saving some SERIOUS holiday gift-giving cash!
And if you are saying to yourself, "I don't have a silhouette machine?" Don't worry about that. I don't have one either! You do not need a Silhouette machine to use these products...all you need are your handy scissors! 
I didn't know what to have Jake be for Halloween, so I took him down the costume aisle at Target and he saw this cow costume and went bonkers! He squealed, laughed and pointed. So, it was settled... he was going to be a cow. He loves cows... well he really loves animals. He would see his costume around the house and just go nuts and chew on his costume and hug it. He made the decision very easy.
Tomorrow is the end of soccer season 2010. This year both girls played and as usual had a blast. Ella loved to finally be able to play on the field like she has seen her sister do for a few years. Ella loved to play and would usually play the whole game (unless they needed her to come out). She loved her coach and loved running with her friends.
Hannah scored a goal this year and was followed up by the most excited victory cheer. High five-ing her coaches and running to high-five her family. You could tell it was a big deal for her. She played so much better than in past years. She played hard, kicked the ball a lot and really tried her hardest.
Since it is the end of the season, I decided to get the coaches a little thank you gift. I packaged up a pair of movie tickets from Costco, some Junior mints and a bag of microwavable popcorn. And then attached a tag. If you would like to use the tag, you can download it here.
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