Pasta and Sauce with Cheese

Monday, April 8, 2013

Mimi's Girl Scout Cookies

Mimi with all the cookies she sold.

We divided up the orders and wrapped the boxes with baker's string, so cute.

We did a girl scout cookie taste test.

Yum!

Monday, April 1, 2013

Mimi's Birthday At Last

Mimi's birthday started out with presents! Grandma Shauna and Grandad left just after birthday doughnuts and a couple presents.

Mimi's chosen theme this year is Chinese New Year.

Mimi wanted a MOON cake...Mmmm.

Although Mimi didn't have a dino-theme to her birthday this year, the dino tradition lives on with the giant dinosaur!

Mimi invited her whole class to a friend party. (note Mimi's dino shirt.)

We played the cookie-face game (put a cookie on your forehead then get it to your mouth without touching it). Oreos are kind-of like a moon, when the moon is full it's like the cream center, when the moon is new/dark it's like the chocolate outside.

This group LOVED the obstacle course.

Everyone ate popcorn and pretzels with chopsticks.

Very fun, but so glad all the birthdays are over until November :)

Monday, March 25, 2013

Yoda's wisdom

Greg:"When the timer goes off we are getting ready for bed, so what's going to happen when the timer goes off?"
Yoda:"Beep"

Monday, March 18, 2013

Chess Weekend

Last weekend Parker competed in a chess tournament. He enjoyed it.

Instead of a participation trophies, the tournament gave out notebooks to annotate your own games. So Mimi and Parker had to try it out. Parker wrote down the moves in his new note book and Mimi recorded the moves on a scrap sheet of paper on top of the Polgar book.

Yoda and I played a game on the side.

Mimi won by checkmate on the 33rd move. We planned on analyzing the game in Tarrasch using Rybka, but the kids let Mimi be in check for a few turns. The computers didn't like that.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

ATTACK!

(If you don't know, a blaster / laser shooter / or any other comic gun has the sound *pew*)

As the children were playing....

Yoda:"You get out to *pew* the things!"
Parker:"Why?!"
Mimi:"NO! I'll get out and *pew* the things!"

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Parker is well on his way to earning his Webelos badges...

He's pretty happy about it!

Monday, March 4, 2013

Shopping with Yoda

Monday, February 25, 2013

What Mimi wore, plus Parker

This day I wanted to document Parker's classic look, too.

*Hanna Andersson*
from Aunt Sonya

Monday, February 18, 2013

Sweets

For the school's International Dessert Night we made Welsh Cakes -- yummy.

Yoda was crying about his breakfast.
"Too much! Too much!" he yelled, he wanted the glass to have lots of milk and the bowl to have lots of cereal just like the picture on the box. So silly. I wouldn't give him tons because I knew he wouldn't eat it all, but I set up everything like the photo and that made him feel a little better. The monster truck stood in for the berries...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day

Jumping on the band-wagon with the Hey Girl Meme. And loving it.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Yoda Yells

After I brushed the snow off of the car, Yoda yelled:"Did you paint the car?!"

Talking about the radio, Yoda yelled:"Can you turn it off and talk to me about sleep?"

After stubbing his toe, Yoda yelled:"I got blood over the place!"

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I follow a blog where the woman occasionally shows what she wore to church or otherwise. She has cute clothes, I do not, but Mimi does. So occasionally I'm going to show off her super-cute clothes in this new segment called...
What Mimi wore to church

*Tea*

from Nana

We'll have to work on her shoe collection next :)

Monday, February 4, 2013

Garage Door

We didn't expect this to happen this year, or during all the other mess that's happening in our lives (who doesn't have a messy life?), but the garage door broke, and it needed some attention.

Today the guys came to put up a new one. And although it looks lovely, I would have loved to spend the garage door money differently....good thing we've been saving up since we moved into the house!