Busy Bee's

Busy, busy week. Annika had Monday off from school, so both her and Mieka spent the morning playing with Nancy. She took them to school where they fed the animals in Nancy's science room. Afterward they had a picnic with one of Nancy's friends. And they made a stop by Animal Ark where they picked out a great costume for Asher. Thanks Nancy! I'm sure Asher will gladly bite you next time he sees you. :)

Later in the day, after gymnastics, we headed over to the Barn Yard Boo for family home evening. The girls got their faces painted. Seems that the little black cat was very popular that night. :)

Next we steered the girls over to the classroom where they decorated and ate a sugar cookie and made slime. The slime wasn't quite so slimy - it turned kind of hard after a few minutes. It actually would have made a great bouncy ball if I had thought to have squished into that shape.

We ended the night with a pony ride and a few more crafts.



Thanks to Jen for coming with us and helping with the different projects!

On Tuesday the girls got to go with Dave to pack meeting while I went to my sewing class. The girls thought playing games and eating pumpkin shaped doughnuts was the highlight of the day. I mean while was chasing bobbins under tables and sticking pins in my fingers. Good times.

Wednesday we were suppose to go a Chemistry Magic show down at BYU to celebrate National Chemistry Week. But the fates were against us - well actually it was UDOT but we'll call them the fates for this week. We left at 6:20 thinking 40 minutes was enough to get down to BYU. At 6:50 we were at 1600 South in Orem. We had barely gone 8 miles in 30 minutes. Bummer. Needless to say we missed the show. Double Bummer.

Thursday we went to a craft class at the Thanksgiving Point Dino Museum. I was hoping to get some more ideas for our neighborhood party we are having on Friday. They did do a few fun things, like making dirt out of oreos and putting cool whip and worms in them. But, I think I'll have to search through Family Fun to get a few more ideas.

Later we went to the dentist ... dum dum dum! Happily there were no screams or tears this trip. Yay! Both girls were cavity free and left happily with their new princess tooth brushes, tooth paste, and dental floss. Mieka had her whole box of floss out and wadded up in her lap by the time we got home. Nice!

Friday was the Fall Festival at American Heritage. Mieka and I spent the morning making cupcakes to take for the bake sale. We made these apple cupcakes from the Hello Cupcake book (thanks Marianne!)


I went to the school around 5:00 to help set up and serve food. I was amazed by how many families came through to get food. Kids that would actually eat a hot dog or sloppy joe! Amazing! A feat never seen before in our house. :)


Dave came around 6:30 and we went to the kids store and made a candy necklace. While Annika was eating one of the apple cupcakes we had made her front tooth fell out. Those mini doughnuts on top of the cupcake must have been pretty stale. :) All she could talk about for the rest of the night was the tooth fairy.

(Sorry - blurry iphone photo of a cupcake crusted mouth!
But we have to document the missing tooth yah know!)

When we arrived home she promptly put her tooth under her pillow and wrote a note to the tooth fairy so that she (the fairy) would know where the tooth was. You never know - you just might get a novice tooth fairy that doesn't know that the proper place for a tooth is under a pillow! Saturday morning - hooray! The tooth fairy came. Money! Happy Day! Annika immediately started to plan how she was going to spend her $1.

Saturday was also Annika's last soccer game of the season. It was a cold, rainy game and they called it shortly after the first half. Thank heavens! Mieka hid under our chairs for the majority of the time. I wish I could have fit down there with her. :(



Well - that's our week in compact form. I think this week will be just as busy with all of our Halloween activities. I foresee another Sunday nap that extends well into the evening next week. :)