Rest of the Fourth

The rest of the day yesterday was busy, busy, busy. We had lots of crafts to do so, we started out with the foam girl that had to be sewed together:

Then made an Owl that Olivia did a great job following the pattern for:

After that, we took some wooden bead necklace kits into the living room to have a little "rest" before the evening festivities. As you can see, I think Sadie needed more of a rest than anyone else!

The necklaces were super cute when finished!

Once the rest time was over, we decorated the cookies that were baked earlier while dinner was cooking.

After dinner we had time for one more craft - a foam monkey:

Then, we headed out to watch the fireworks which were awesome!

What a great day!

Saturday Morning

The most exciting thing about this morning was this:



I could hardly believe we actually blue sky AND sunshine. I almost didn't know what to do with myself!! However, we are currently in the midst of pouring rain and a thunderstorm, but they do say it should clear for fireworks tonight - I sure hope so. We are planning on meeting my parents later to enjoy the festivities!

So far this morning, we have watched Pinocchio (she had never seen it!), gone swimming in the pool:

and we also made cookies for the occasion with our Fourth of July cookie cutters. We need to decorate them later.

We're getting ready to have some lunch and then we are heading to the basement to do a few crafts.

We'll update later with the rest of our fun day!

Fun with Olivia

So, as I said in my last post we have Olivia for the weekend. She is always lots of fun. We started our day yesterday with the all important BRAND NEW episode of The Back.yardigans. Missing it would have been a tragedy!

We played some W.ii in the afternoon and then we made some projects. Markers, glue, paper, and scissors are all a five year old needs. We now have a beautful snowflake and a butterfly card hanging on the fridge!

Then came time for cookie making. Olivia got all of the cookie cutters she wanted and lined them up ready to go. She very nicely made selections from all seasons so we ended up with everything from Christmas trees to hearts, to bunnies and much more.

I just love this picture - I was sprinkling flour on the island to roll out the cookies and MJ happend to snap a pic at the same time!

Here she is cutting out the cookies.And of course, she had to make sure the frosting was good to eat!

According to Miss Olivia all we needed was purple, pink, and white for frosting because "Those are Valentine's colors, you know."

We had lots of fun frosting and sprinkling the cookies. I'm not sure if more frosting went in Olivia's mouth or on the cookies. I know that more sprinkles ended up on the floor than on the cookies! We had to vacuum when we were done!



Here is one tray of our final creations!

Today we are off to a Winter Festival in the town where my parents live, so we'll have some good pics and stories from that!