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A special treat....

Easter Egg Hunt

This year the kids really wanted to do an Easter Egg hunt.  There were a few factors that were going to make this difficult:

1. Chad gave away our Easter Eggs at the children's message last year

2. There is still about a foot of snow on the ground

3. We don't let the kids have much candy,  so I didn't want to fill a bunch of eggs with things they can't have.

So I decided instead to order some eggs from Amazon, & make a treasure hunt instead with a small prize at the end.  The eggs were all filled with the location of the next egg, but the kids had to take turns giving clues, and finding the egg.  The twist was that they were not allowed to say any of the words on the paper.  I had ordered a pack of 100 eggs, and ended up using about 75 of them.

I did have about 8 small items that I put into a few of the eggs, but as the kids found them, they'd say, "Here, mom, I don't want this." So I was glad I didn't fill every egg!  The kids really enjoyed it, and it was fun to see their wheels turning trying to think of ways to give the clue without saying the words.  I also noticed a few times they would look right at the spot as they were thinking of it.

It took about an hour for them to do the egg hunt, and since they enjoy making treasure hunts for each other I'm sure we'll get lots of use out of our new eggs.

Ice cream truck

Sometimes a promise isn't enough. Sometimes you need to document that your kids said it...

Digby's New Toy

And now, for your viewing pleasure, I give you "Digby's New Toy", a short video starring Digby, & his new toy!

An Odd Up-Do

My hair is very open to the power of suggestion.  That can be a good thing or a bad thing.  When I was in grade 7 I got a perm, & my hair was tightly curled until the day I cut it off, there was no relaxing that perm, & that was ok.  On the few occasions I have had my hair straightened, it stayed straight until I washed it, & I looked like I had been born with straight hair.

However, in general, when I wear my hair down it seems to think it is frizzy time.  No one likes frizzy time.  When I was in highschool I used to dry my hair in a low bun so it would stay relatively straight with some waves at the bottom.  But I have a lot of hair, & it takes a long time to dry.

The best way to manage my hair is to wash it at night & sleep with a towel on my pillow, but recently I have discovered a way to make my hair look even MORE curly, but the first day leaves me with a questionable hair-do...

This is day 1 hair

And this is the result!

Yardwork CAN Be Fun!

PChad is gone this week, so it fell to me to mow the grass.  It was long... and we have a weird mower... I got my exercise for the day!

Asher's Boredom Buster...

The kids have no school today, & apparently during quiet time, Asher got bored.  He came to me afterwards & asked me to take a video...

Bartholomew Cubbins has met his match!

Snowflake Factory

We’ve been busy making snowflakes here.  Some are being mailed to the Grandparents, but we’re just having a lot of fun figuring out how to make different shapes & designs.  Here Asher demonstrates how to make a snowflake…

Bass Has Always Been Popular!

From 1988, “Tigra & Bunny” informed us that they liked the cars that went BOOM!

 

Now Meghan Trainor is here in 2014 to let us know that she is all about that Bass!

 

I can’t hear “All About That Bass” without thinking about “The Cars That Go Boom”!

Happy Friday!

So Broken

So this video is a few weeks old, but it has been my favourite routine on this year’s SYTYCD.  Sonja Tayeh works her magic again!

 

WiFi

It’s summertime, get outside & enjoy it before it’s too late!

Private Pools

Saturday turned out to be a hot sunny day, & we realized that in a cleaning frenzy last fall I had thrown out the pool.  I remembered seeing in the Target flyer that all their pools were 50% off, so we headed out to see what we could find.  I warned the kids that there would probably not be much to choose from since lots of people had probably already bought the nice sized pools.

We ended up finding a little blue & a little pink pool, & for $5 each, I thought that was perfect price.  Private, colour coded pools should mean no fights, right?

 

So far, so good!

 

Then we decided to put the sprinkler between the pools, & there was even more fun to be had!

St Paddy’s Day

Thought this was a good one for today!

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Shared Homework

Asher was helping Chancery with her French reading homework one night.  She only knows a few of the shorter words so far, so I thought the way they read through the book was pretty clever!

 

Merry Christmas, Doggie!

It’s a Christmas Miracle for this puppy!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

Natural Art?

See what happens when you pour molten aluminum down an ant hill.  This is some really cool art!



HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

IKEA

Imagine what would happen if you got separated in IKEA… how would you ever find each other again?

 

 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Absolute Magic

Here is the perfect marriage of Disney & Broadway…

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!

It Starts With You!

Kid President has been songified!  The world can be better, & it all starts with you!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Dog Pile!

If this doesn’t put a smile on your face, then you should watch it TWICE!

 

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!