Blog book and Tokens

So I wanted to show you this new thing I've been doing with the kids. My sister Ashley and my Friend Trista did this with their kids a while ago and I've been wanting to try it so I finally did.
so I bought some tokens at a party store. and I let the kids earn the tokens. it's pretty easy to earn them. they get one for brushing their teeth, or taking a bath, getting dressed (all with out whining) or if they eat dinner with out being wild. Bailee also can earn one for every book she reads. or Tyson for practicing his letters. ect. you get the point.
then I make them pay me for things they want to do. examples.... Tyson has to pay 5 tokens for an hour on the x box. or 5 for a friend over. or Bailee can pay 5 tokens to make cup cakes. or 3 tokens if they want me to make them popcorn. or they can try and save their tokens to go to Mcdonalds or have a late night ect.
it's been working really well for Bailee, it has totally motivated her to read more books and clean her room. and she is better about the whining. it's worked okay for Tyson. He's not quiet as excited as Bailee, but he still likes it.
anyway I just thought I'd share, I always like to hear when things work for other people.
No these signs weren't made by Bailee I made them. I totally can't draw and I am fully aware that I have 7th grade girl handwriting.



Next I just wanted to show you my blog book. I am so excited about it. I've been wanting to print it off for ever but just never did. Ryan surprised me for Christmas and did it. it cost $48.00 with shipping and everything. I would totally recommend this to everyone. It is so easy. I am so computer dumb and I figured it out. just go to blurb.com and download you book and it's pretty self explanatory from there.
these first pictures are just the front and back of the book

these next pages I just wanted to show you how you can change the layout if you want to. and how I changed the background. you can choose as many backgrounds as you want. I just went with one background and then changed to color of it on every page.



This last picture is Bailee and her sweet friend Cali. they were just playing last week and I saw they took some pictures so I thought I'd post them.

I do want to end with a sweet Bailee story. I just think she is cute, she always loves to leave little surprises for everyone. This morning she kept begging me to make Ryan some eggs so she coud take him breakfast. but I told her he usually doesn't have time to eat, and he doesn't really like breakfast (side note, that is true, I've make him breakfast before and he tells me not to worry about it because he's never hungary in the morning I wasn't just being mean) so she went and got him a Mountain Dew and put a note on it that said "too dad I love you love Bailee".
last night we had a FHE about being thankful. and Ryan's mom put a blessing basket out where we can write thing down that we are thankful for durring the day and then read them at night. already today she's been writing down all kinds of blessings. I just thing she is sweet and a good example to me.