Playing Catch-up

So this post's purpose to play catch-up of the events that have happened in our little family up until Thanksgiving. Also this quick posting serves as proof to my children that we did do these activities and when they are teenagers I will be able to prove that I wasn't always a mean mom. :) We started out on the 15th by having FHE at our house. We had our usual group and after the lesson we made roll turkeys. They looked cute ... but tasted "interesting." Think next year we'll do a different type of turkey roll.

Mutated birds ... don't eat them! Yuck! Well the eyes were ok cause they were chocolate chips - but the rest - yuck!

Annika with cute little Isabella. Both Annika and Mieka are in love with babies and want to hold people's babies all the time. Good little future mommies!

On Wednesday the 17th we had Janelle and her kids and Emilee and her kids over to make some Thanksgiving crafts. We started out by making bracelets that told the Thanksgiving story. Each bead represented a part of the story. Fun idea - hard to execute with little kids. They had a little trouble getting the beads laced on their strings ... but the main problem was keeping the bracelet in one piece. Several were broken after they went down to play in the basement. Now I can see why other people just used regular plastic beads and pipe cleaners. :)


Later we decorated ice cream cone tepees, played outside, and made bow and arrows out of popsicle sticks, dental floss and q-tips. And yes - the bows could actually shoot arrows - almost 10-15 feet. They were awesome! :)




On Friday and Saturday I was lucky enough to be able to go to Time Out for Women up in Salt Lake with my family. It was so nice to have a short break to just sit and think about things of a spiritual nature. And I learned tons of things to help improve who I am. By the time it was finished my brain was on overload with all the things I wanted to do ... but that's a good thing. :)

We were missing Marianne, Ashley, Janice and Lois. Bummer that we didn't get a picture with all of us. :(

For our Science Sunday we talked about surface tension and did a milk experiment. Drops of food coloring in a shallow dish of milk - add a few drops of dish soap and the colors start to dance around the milk. Very neat experiment.

You can see a video of the milk dancing here: Awesome Milk Trick

Afterward we made Plymouth Rock cookies. Hmm .. probably wont follow this recipe again. But the girls had fun making the dough in to rocks.

Yes - I agree - it looks nothing like Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock probably looks more palatable then this!

Monday we built a wigwam out of newspaper. Yes - it is possible! We rolled up mass amounts of newspaper, stapled them together and voila! We had made our own little wigwam ... of sorts. :) The girls had a fun time watching tv and having snacks in their hide out.



Tuesday we were suppose to head down to the Covey Center to watch a musical made from the book Knuffle Bunny. They girls were so excited to go ... it's one of Mieka's favorite books. But there were major storm warnings ... something about a blizzard. :( And so instead we stayed home and had a super movie night with popcorn and licorice. I have to admit I was pretty bugged when I woke up the next morning and there was hardly a skiff of snow on the ground. Oh well - better safe than sorry. :)

And that leads us up to Thanksgiving which I'll cover in the next post.