Proud to Be An American!!

This project is one reason I have not been keeping up with the blog. Morgan has been working on this video and I have been serving as his technical assistant. Enjoy the show!! Thanks Grams and PaPa for the awesome trip!

Tie Dye Party

It has been a busy, busy week! Today, we hosted a tie dye party for our adoption play group. Lucky for us, the weather was cool (low 70's) and although we thought it was going to rain it never did. There was lots of playing, eating, and tie dying going on!! Although there is a wide age span (8 to 3.5 years), the kids love playing together. The older girls were more interested in creating the shirts while the moms of the younger girls created their shirts. I can't wait to see how they all turned out! The Colorburst Cupcakes were so cute and I can't wait to have a reason to make them again! Next time, however, I will try the frosting they used. I ran out of time and when the recipe told me to use a metal strainer to strain the ingredients, I figured I would need to wait until I had time to do a trial run.

Another Snow Day!

I guess I should clarify...it is an "Ice Day". We have ice everywhere - our poor birch trees are slumped over from the weight of the ice. So, how do you keep your kiddos busy on a snow day? Today, the kids and I set up a post office. This is something I use to do in my kindergarten classroom in the month of February and the kids used to love it. Since Rylee and Ryan are approaching that age, I figured we would try it out. Oh my goodness...It is 3:00 and the tv hasn't been turned on yet and there has been no mention of it. You know this is a good thing when that happens...I put out a box of envelopes, stickers (for stamps), several different kinds of papers (index cards, cut up sentence strips, different sized regular paper), envelopes that come with your bills (we bank online), magazine subscription cards, colored pencils, mailing boxes (already taped), and a delivery bag. I also set a couple of mailboxes (Target dollar spot) around the house for them to deliver to and made a paper (in a page protector) of Rylee's friends names next to their pictures so, she could "write" specific people. We turned their little store into the post office and Morgan labeled it and made them an "Open" and "Closed" sign. They are loving this!! I am expecting another snow day tomorrow, but have no idea how I will keep them busy - Hopefully, the post office fascination won't wear off by then!