The Iditarod

This week is Go North! week at the girls school. Yesterday and today they have been learning all about the Iditarod and Alaska. While I was cooking dinner today, Sydney wrote this report about everything she's learned so far.

Seriously! Is she a first grader or a fourth grader?

Trick or Treat!

Chocolate skulls

Remember my skull ice cube tray? Well, my dad came up with this fab idea to make chocolate skulls with it. They turned out super spooky!

And, the girls both thought they were awesome and they gobbled them all up!

Kettle Corn

Today, I made homemade kettle corn. It turned out quite yummy!

I found the recipe here. It was very easy to make, and I have been munching on it all morning.

Halloween bowling

This is the first year I signed up to be a room mom in my kids' classrooms for their holiday parties. So far it's going super because I got called to do it in Sydney's classroom and not in Briana's. So there's bound to be hurt feelings for sure. But, I still plan on attending both parties, so hopefully that will help me redeem myself.

Anyway, the game I am taking into Sydney's class party is Halloween bowling. I worked on it all night last night, and I love it. Those first graders better not bowl too hard and damage my hard work!

My favorites are the mummy

and the Frankenstien.

Strike!

Leaf Pile!

Today the girls and I made a leaf pile in the backyard. It was a super windy day, and most of our leaves actually blew into our elderly neighbor's yard (oops!) leaving us without too much to rake up. We did manage to get a good enough pile to jump in. And let me tell you, raking up leaves is a workout!

One... two... three..... JUMP!

It was hours of fun!

Poor Ellie even got roped into it.

The girls thought it would be super funny to bury her in the leaves. But she managed to get away from them, and she went to the safest looking place around, the yellow slide.

Dress Transformation

Last fall, I got Sydney the CUTEST gray dress. It was a gray, hooded cotton Ralph Lauren dress that I loved. Sydney did not share in my love for the dress. In fact, she felt quite the opposite about it.

"It's plain and it's boring and I'm not wearing it," she informed me one morning before school. I think the dress was worn maybe once.

While we were cleaning out the girl's closets today, I pulled out the beloved gray dress.

"Do you want to keep this or get rid of it?" I asked Sydney.

"WAIT!" Briana shouts. "You could put that cherry patch on that dress!" I looked at Sydney, and she looked at me. "Oh, yeah!" she said. We picked up this cute cherry patch at Hobby Lobby last week and were trying to find something to put it on. And thanks to Briana's genious idea, we had our dress.

Here is the new, very cute, not boring, absolutely adorable (and LOVED by Sydney) dress:

Guess what? She wants to wear it to school tomorrow.