Fall Monogram Door Hanger

Our October Creative Activity for CCMG was a Fall Monogram Door Hanger.

 

The supplies you will need are an 8x10 frame (ours were purchase at our local Good Will for 99cents), leaf garland cut to about 15inches, your monogram letter, gold spray paint (not pictured), glue gun(not pictured), and a strip of burlap.

 

 

 First you will want to spray paint the front side of your letter and let it dry. Next decide how you want your letter placed. You could center the letter, hang it threw the middle with the burlap, or glue it to the corner just play around with it until you find what you like.

 

Thirdly wrap your garland around one side of the frame. Next glue your letter down and tack down your garland in a couple places. Finally make a loop with your garland for hanging.

 



 

 

This craft ended up costing a little over $5 a person. Not bad for and up cycled door hanger :)

 

 

 

***CCMG meets the first and third Tuesday of every month, if you would like more info check us out on facebook or email our coordinator

Munchkin Of The Meeting #2

 Meet Our Purple Room Munchkin of The Meeting

Ellie Joy

Also known by Ells Bells and Ellie Bellie

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite Food: Ice Cream and Chicken (not together :) )

Favorite Thing To Do: Go to the park

Favorite Animal: Horse

When Ellie grows up she wants to be a Chiropractor.

When asked if her parents were to turn into animals what animals would they become; she thought they would become horses. 

Meet Our Blue Room Munchkin Of The Meeting

Rianen Elsie

Also known as Nanners

Age 2

Favorite Food: Mac and Cheese

Favorite Toy: Anything Dora

Favorite Thing To Do: Color

Favorite Animal: Cat

Favorite Color: Yellow

Best Trait According To Mom: Her sense of  humor paired with her quirky facial expressions.

Terrible Two Moment: Has been known to give herself frequent tattoos with washable markers.

Getting to Know You- Ashley

Ashley is CCMG's first Getting To Know You Mom.

Ashley has been a member since 2010.

She lives on a farm with her Husband Dan and three girls Camden, Ambree, and Rianen.

Ashley comes from a large family with three brothers and three sisters.

Some of Ashleys favorites are the colors blue and purple, the month of March, and lettuce salad with ranch and dill pickles.

Ashley is a stay at home mom but also works hard on their family chicken farm.

Her biggest baby at birth was Ambree weighing in at 7 pounds 7ounces.

If Ashley could have any super power she would choose the power of flight.

Ashley's dream vacation would be somewhere tropical in the middle of winter.

When asked her favorite thing about CCMG group Ashley quickly replied "meeting new moms and having some just Mommy time!"

photo credit to Jeanne Hansen Photography
(l-r Ambree, Dan, Rianen, Ashley, Camden)

Munchkins Of The Meeting #1

Meet our Purple Room Munchkin Of The Meeting.

Erin Sophia

Age 5

Favorite Colors: Red and Purple

Favorite Food: Watermelon and Grapes

Favorite Thing To Do: Take Bathes or be in the water.

Favorite Animal: Her Kitties
Erin wants to be an "Ear Piercer Girl" when she grows up.
Erin was asked what animal her mom and dad would be if they were animals. She thought mom would be and elephant and dad would be a giraffe.  

Meet Our Blue Room Munchkin Of The Meeting.

Easton Allen

Age 2

Favorite Food: Grapes and Milk

Favorite Toy: Tractors and Trains

Favorite Thing To Do: Chase around his Brother and Sister.

Favorite Animal: Bear

Best Trait According to Mom: He's Loving, Mom loves getting slobbery kisses from this little man.
Terrible Two Moment: Has been known to frequently escape!

Welcome Back Picnic

On Friday CCMG hosted it's first outside event, The Welcome Back Picnic. The Welcome Back Picnic was at Lions Field many CCMG momas came with their families. All the kids had fun playing and adults had fun socializing. 

These CCMG Dads(above) need to take a lesson on how to pose in a group from these two sweet munchkins (below) Emma and Ambree!

Look at all these adorable Munchkins enjoying the Merry Go Round (above). They even conned CCMG Dad, Jake into pushing them "really fast." Below

These three Munchkins have all known each other since birth, Thanks to CCMG!

What is Charles City Moms Group?

Charles City Moms Group in a nut shell is a group of Moms that meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month (during the school year) at Saint Johns Church from 8:45 to 11. Really it's so much more then that is it's friendship, it's creativity, it's faith building, and so much more. CCMG gives mom much needed time to feel rejuvenated & inspired while your sweet children are cared for in our munchkin land.

During our meetings we have a little social time while we eat a potluck style breakfast, this is always a place to get fun new recipes. It's then followed by a devotion by the worlds best mentor Melinda Quint. We will do a quick Ice Breaker game with our Hospitality Steering members Darci Tracey and Lori Gassman. These games help us all to know each other better. There are two types of meetings Speakers and Creative Activity. We have a great line up of speakers this year. They will be speaking on topics that are important to our moms. The other type of meetings are Creative Activity I know there are some of you reading this in a PANIC! I promise you even if you aren't "crafty" our creative activity Steering Member, Ashley Shirley has tailored the activities to everyone super crafty or barley able to cut she will be able to help you. :) After our Creative Activity or Speaker we will do discussion group questions this is one of my favorite things because it gives me time to have adult conversations that I don't normally get during the day with my kiddos. After discussion group it's time to get your sweet kiddos from Munchkin Land.

What is Munchkin Land you might be asking? Munchkin Land is where your children will be cared for by our loving Munchkin Helpers. All MH have had a background check and have been interviewed by our Munchkin Steering Member, Brandi Lantz. While in ML your children with have time to socialize with other children their age. They will also do an age appropriate activity and have a snack. Along with the Munchkin Helpers there will be 3 to 5 middle school students that come to help from their family consumer science class. Munchkins will be divided into two rooms depending on their age. Munchkin helpers are always ready and willing to help with any special instructions you have. All being parents before they know how to run a potty training toddlers to the bathroom or cuddle the little friend that just isn't sure if s/he wants to stay.

Now that the meeting is over we still aren't done with you. CCMG has many Outside Events planned this year from a Chili Cook Off to Appetizer and Dessert Night, we have many things planned that will be for moms alone, couples, moms and kids, and the whole family.

As you can see we have a very fun year planned if you have any questions about CCMG feel free to comment below, send us a message on FaceBook here, or email our Coordinator, Jody Osier at djosier6@gmail.com. Rounding out our Steering Team we have Marisa Anderson with Finance and Myself, Dusty Schmitt with Publicity.