Cooking, eating, sewing and storytelling

We tried a new recipe, Elephant Ears. Waiting for them to cool before we could taste them was the hardest part.

For lunch we made silly sandwiches. Yummy and cute!


The sewing project(the girls always like to sew) was to make backpacks.

They are getting pretty good at sewing those straight seams all by themselves. Morganne made her pack and Ty's pack. Eliza sewed her own backpack. They turned out great ! Don't you think they're cute?
Each night before bedtime we tell sack stories. Each person gathers two random items from around the house and secretly puts them in the sack. We sit in a circle on the floor and the first person takes something from the sack and including the item into the story, he begins the story...and then...the next person takes their turn...and then...the story gets sillier and sillier and we laugh and laugh. Goodnight Ty, goodnight Eliza, goodnight Morganne. Sweet dreams. Cute kids. Good times!

The Crafting Continues

Today we are making sock bunnies. Ok kids, pour the lentils into the socks, and onto the counter, and onto the floor...
The kids had fun sifting through the buttons, trying to decide which ones to use for eyes. Cute bunnies girls - whoops, didn't get a picture of Ty's bunny. I think he ran outside to jump on the tramp.

Morganne learned how to make a gum wrapper chain. But since gum no longer has wrappers, we cut pieces of wrapping paper.

She decided to make a bracelet. Good idea, Morganne! Turned out cute.
We made bunny jars and filled them with marshmellows. What can I say. They turned out cute, cute, cute and cute.

March 23-26, 2010 Spring Break at Nana & Papa's

The kids stayed with us while Jenni and Chris flew to Texas for a little business trip getaway. While Mom and Dad were away, Nana and the kids did play. We had fish , turtles and butterflies for breakfast. It was a great start for a fun day.


Eliza wanted this picture taken so her Mom could see how cute her hair looked.
Let the crafting begin! We first made Easter chickies. Gotta get that tissue paper all crinkled up....
then glue the paper to the styrofoam ball...
glue on the eyes, make some feet and a beak, and of course the girls added a few cute accessories.
Five cute little chickies made by three cute little kiddies!

Fun times with the kids

Feb 13-16. The kids stayed with us while Rhett & Julie went on an anniversary getaway. We had a great time. Here are a few of the fun things we did.

Nana had a dog (Spencer) and cat (Addie) in training for the judged annual obstacle course show at the state fair. Here is Ruff and Sugar getting ready for the show. By the way, they took 1st place and won blue ribbons!





Jacob and Papa had a game of chess.
For Valentines Day, we made heart shaped ice cream sandwiches. As you can see no one like them at all!


A secret admirer rang the doorbell and left a few valentines on the doorstep.
A little dancing in the kitchen.

We had a great time building castles. Jacob and Spencer had some great ideas and constructed a castle fit for a king, and a few knights, and a few guards, and a couple of poor guys held captive in the dungeon.








Addie and Nana built a princess castle that was just the right size for her 3 little princess dogs.


And of course we had to have our star wars meal of Tie-Fighter Ties, and Yoda Soda. Yummy it so was. May the force be with you!

Alayna's Annual Brrrrthday Party

On a cold February night the family gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of my 28th birthday. Another year with no snow but it wasn't raining and it was cold enough that it was truly a brrrrthday party. Following are a few pictures of the festivities.

You can't see it very well but the brrrrthday cake was made out of ice cubes with tea light candles. Lovely, and very easy for the brrrrthday girl to make. Just needed something so we could sing happy brrrrthday and blow out the candles. We had smores for dessert.
Happy brrrthday to you, happy brrrrthday to you..........