Trick or Treat!

Against our better judgement, Mike and I took the girls to the zoo for their annual trick or treating event. We've only been once before, when the girls were babies and all we could remember was that it was super busy. I checked the zoo website, and on there it said that this is the most popular trick or treating event in Omaha. It was also featured on the news as a top thing to do for today. We were prepared for it to be busy. Luckily, we all got up and got ready early, so I think we missed a lot of the huge crowds.

Even Ellie got to dress up! Too bad she couldn't go trick or treating with us.

Once we got to the zoo, things went pretty well!

The girls got lots of candy. Then the lines started getting a tad longer.

They moved pretty quick though, and I didn't have any complaints about the wait time.

Still smiling!

The only line we chose not to wait in was the line for free Runzas. That's right. FREE RUNZAS!!! I wanted to wait in that line so, so bad. But the line wound all the way around the zoo. Mike told me if I didn't make him wait in that line, he would buy me a Runza for lunch. I told him it probably wouldn't taste as good as the free one. In the end, I gave in and let him buy me lunch.

Once we got home, the girls spread out all their loot in the living room.

Here's my loot:

Trick or treat!

My Crafty Girl

The other day, my sister made a super cute candy corn wreath using felt rosettes. Of course once I saw it, I had to copy her idea and make one of my own. What are sisters for, right? Once Sydney saw the felt rosettes covering our kitchen table, she wanted to make some too. I showed her how, and she made one, and then she glued it onto a hair clip. So, so cute!!

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!