Sunday morning breakfast

Last week, Mike emailed me this:

along with the message "I know what I want for breakfast this weekend!"

Who am I to deny my family such a delicacy? On Sunday morning, we whipped up our own batch of bacon pancakes.

I thought they looked pretty good! Mike ate the first one, and this is the praise I got for making him such a delicious breakfast.

"Wow, that's..... different."

"I mean, it's not bad."

"Well, it's not horrible."

I tasted one too. Because after that, how could I not? And it was pretty ok-ish. I don't think I'll be making them again. I didn't think it was horrible. I just think I like my pancakes and bacon separate. We did think this would be an awesome idea for a breakfast cafe. And we could make some sort of eating challenge out of it and Adam Richmond could film an episode of Man V. Food there!

A joke by Briana

What's a party called that's in the bathroom?

A Party Pooper!

Bathtime for Ellie

In preparation for our annual Ernst family photo shoot today, we gave Ellie a bath yesterday. Usually, Ellie gets her baths in the kitchen sink, but since the girls wanted to help, we thought it will be easier to do it in the bath tub. Ellie was thrilled about that decision. Briana put on her swimsuit and hopped in the tub too.

After we shampoo-ed her, Briana gave her some very interesting hair dos.

And I gave her a big smiley face.

And then I'm not sure what happened to her face.

He he he!

Sun Peekers Tutorial by Sydney

Step 1: get a piece of white paper and a piece colored paper a thumbtack. draw something on your paper first then tape the papers together.

Step 2: move to the carpet.

Step 3: then start pinning.

Step 4: if you want to see it you can hold it be a light.

Step 5: finish pinning it.

Step 6: rip the paper that you drew on.

Step 7: look at the holes and if theier to apart go back and fix it.

Step 8: hang your picture on any window.

done.

Spiders & skulls

Check out these super cute spiders Sydney and I made yesterday! They were very easy, and very fun to make. You can find the tutorial here.

While Sydney was working on her spiders, I made some homemade warm fuzzies. I told the girls all about how we used to get those on our desks at Harvey Oaks Elementary when we had done a good job at something.

Which got me thinking, I could whip up a bunch of warm fuzzies in all kinds of different colors and give them to my girls at home when they do something great!

Yesterday morning, we froze our first batch of skull ice cubes.

I found the ice cube tray at Dollar Tree and we are going to be using skull ice cubes right up till Halloween. The girls love them!

Paper Pencil Holder Tutorial by Briana

Recently, Briana came up with this awesome pencil holder idea. They are very, very cute and look great on anyone's desk.

So, here's the tutorial:

Step 1: Get a peice of paper. She used construction paper, but regular printer paper works good too.

Step 2: Fold up all four corners of your paper.

Step 3: Fold up the two long sides of the paper.

Step 4: Fold the two shorter sides of the paper up

Step 5: Holding two corners in your fingers, bring them together to form a U shape.

Step 6: Bring the two corners together and tape them in place.

Step 7: Repeat on the other end.

That's it! Now you have a fabulous pencil holder!

You can make as few,

or as many as you like!

Halloween windows

Last week I went to Country Sampler to do some fabric shopping for a halloween costume I'm making for Sydney. While I was in there, I found the cutest halloween fabric that I couldn't live without. I got it home and decided to make it into some window treatments for my bathroom and kitchen. I love how they turned out!

Here's the bathroom:

And here's the kitchen: