Ipod Case

I'm officially a copycat.  But, when I saw the ipod case that my sister made, I had to make one of my own.  I worked on it for quite a while today, and I love how it turned out!

And, just for fun, here are a couple cute pictures of the girls washing Mike's car yesterday. 

Day 5 and Day 6

I've given up on the crafting.  It's spring!  We can only play outside.  The other day, I found the girls in the backyard with this creation. 

They were playing wolf!  Not sure how to play that, but they sure put a lot of work into setting it up.

Last night, they made this clubhouse with the sides of Mike's trailer.

It was quite imaginitive. 

Today, we had to go to a birthday party where they had hired a magician/balloon artist.  She made the girls the BEST balloons ever. 

Briana got a monkey which she LOVES, Lila got a ballerina, and Sydney got SMURFETTE!  It was totally awesome. 

Then we came home and played outside all night.  It's like summer out today!

Day 4: Rainbow Cookies

The girls and I made these delicious Rainbow Swirl Cookies today.  We got the recipe from my Gooseberry Patch cookbook.  I think our cookies turned out even better than the ones pictured in the cookbook!

The girls got really creative with the cookies.  And, they tasted good too! 

Here's another creation the girls came up with today.  It's an easter bunny and his basket, made out of Easter eggs.  Cute!

Day three

Well another day has gone by, and guess what?  No crafting.  We are terrible crafters.  But, who can craft when it's this nice outside?  Not us!  Instead, we went for a walk.

And we went to the playground so Sydney could practice on the monkey bars.

And then we just played around. 



Then we came home and the girls had a Kool Aid stand. 

They had so much fun doing it.  And, business was good! 

Grand total for the day: $12.50.  Not too shabby!

Day 2 and we're already slacking

In our defense, we were way too busy yesterday to do any kind of propor crafting.  Briana got to go to the Omaha World Herald for a Brownies field trip first thing yesterday morning.  She said it was fun and the ink stunk.  While Briana was there, Sydney and I went to Michaels and did the free Make It Take It. 

After that, Briana came home from her field trip and the girls played scientist in the sandbox.  

Then we went and saw the movie Hop! 

It was really, really good.  The girls and I both loved it.  And, Chelsea Handler is in it!  So, pretty awesome all around.  And, when we first got into the theater, we were the only people in there, so the girls were running up and down all the isles.  They even ran up to the screen and were dancing in front of it.  It was quite cute. 

Then, we raced home and cooked dinner so we would have enough time to go to the park before bed. 

I didn't get a picture of this, but Sydney is learing how to do the monkey bars!  She's able to completely hang on one bar, and she's going to start practicing going from bar to bar.  Very exciting!  By the time we got home from the park, we were all exhausted and we could only muster up the energy to watch part of a movie and then go to bed.  Tomorrow, we will be doing a real craft for sure!

A project a day

I made a promise to Briana that we would be doing a craft or project every single day over spring break.  Yesterday was our first day of spring break, and our first project!  The girls picked out some duck tape at the store, and we duck taped up some frames!
 

They turned out really cute!  Briana was inspired to make even more duck tape creations, so she made a duck tape version of herself!

She worked so hard on it, and it turned out better than she expected.  It is awesome!

Finally, after the girls went to sleep, I made a little craft of my own.  It's a spring chick potholder. 

I love how it turned out.  I think some other people around here think it's a bit ridiculous.  But what do they know?  

April Fools!

Happy April Fools Day! I started off the morning pulling a harmless prank on Sydney. I had planned to set out her usual breakfast of cheerios, set the milk carton on the table and have her pour her own milk (which I tampered with) on her cereal.

"But I want a toaster strudel today," she tells me.

Of course she does.

"Just eat your cheerios while your toaster strudel is cooking," I told her, not ready to give up hope.

"OK, but I don't want any milk."

Of course not!

"You have to have milk," I say.

"Why?"

"Because it's good for you."

"Fine," she says, "but you have to pour it on."

Good grief.

I finally convince her to put the milk on, and it was a hit.

Blue milk!! She thought it was funny (phew!) and, she ate the blue milk on her cheerios.

After school today, I whipped up a little April Fools snack that was sushi. We all ate it, and it was delicious.

The girls and I came up with the most fabulous idea to trick Mike after work. We bought some tootsie rolls, and rolled them until they looked like dog poop and strategically placed them on the stairs (Ellie's favorite pooping place).

It was pure genius, I tell you.

And, it was kind of funny to make.

Mike won't admit it, but we fooled him good!