The Catapult

Last week, Briana brought a baggie home from school with popsicle sticks, rubber bands, clay and a plastic spoon.
"We get to make a catapult for a science project!" she told me. She was super excited about this project and her and Mike put a lot of time into making it. The project was completed Monday night, and she was catapulting marshmallows clear across the kitchen! It was amazing. She got to present her catapult to her class Tuesday morning. Also very exciting. After her presentation, we brought her catapult home for her to keep forever. It's a good thing too, because it provided much entertainment this afternoon.

P.S. They were catapulting cheerios into each other's mouths.

Candy Cane Pizza

For dinner tonight, I made candy cane and Christmas tree pizzas. They turned out really cute and they were so yummy.

I got the idea for these from this blog. On the tree pizza, I used her recipe for the white sauce. I do not normally like any type of white sauce on pizza. I'm a red sauce gal. But, you have got to try this white sauce. It is seriously so, so good. And easy! Even Briana liked it.

Here are the cooked pizzas.

Yum!

Christmas recital

To see Briana's Christmas recital, click here!

The tooth fairy is comin to town!

Look what happened to Sydney at Spaghetti Works today!

We had just gotten there and were waiting for our table, when out popped Sydney's tooth! It was a very, very exciting moment!!

Briana had her annual Christmas dance recital yesterday. It was super cute! This year, she was only allowed to bring two guests to watch (grr!), so I made sure to record her dance and share it with everyone.

All She Wants For Christmas Is....

Orbeez!!



And for those of you looking for a jolly Christmas chuckle, check out this funny picture of Santa we managed to get.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Today, the girls and I braved the elements to witness Santa Claus landing his sleigh on the roof of Scheels. I don't know what the temperature was, but it felt like it was 45 below. And the wind was blowing, which didn't help. After standing outside for what felt like hours (but was more likely only about 5 minutes), Santa landed on the roof.

The girls were definitely impressed. We went into the store after the landing because they were supposed to have Christmas-y things going on. The store was CRAZY. People were everywhere! We could hardly move around it was so crazy. We did get to see Rudolph though!

This afternoon, Briana and I got to go to the Mormon Museum for a Brownies field trip. It was pretty fun!

They got to go through the pioneer part of the museum, which was pretty fun, but I'd say the best part of the trip was the big gingerbread house display they had in the basement. There were lots of really elaborate houses. They even had some gingerbread girls!

After seeing everything, Briana was inspired to make a gingerbread house of her own. So we did! In fact, the girls each made two!

The houses turned out really yummy looking!