Fun Summer Days

Today was so hot! But it didn't stop the girls from having fun. We had Bailey and McKenna here all weekend and they left this morning. I was a little nervous about having 2 extra girls but it went so great. Everyone got along well and it was lots of fun!! I meant to take a picture but didn't. This afternoon the girls decided to make "cake". Since we are moving in 2 weeks (2 weeks?! How can that be?!) and I have lots of opened food to get rid of I let them "shop" in the pantry for the ingredients. Mmm...tasty: pretzels, edema, pink chocolates, sour jelly bellies and chocolate frosting! And then they wanted Scott and me to taste it.....no thank you!

This afternoon while Avery was napping I surprised the girls with a little craft. It is one of those sun catcher things that you put the crystals in and then melt it in the oven. It is for ages 8 and up and I now know why. It can be quite tedious. I thought it was hilarious though the girl's different approaches. Karis was done in minutes and Hailey meticulously worked for almost an hour with tweezers!! Getting it just right. Then we had tons of extra crystals and I kept trying to think of how to use them. Well I finally figured it out- put them in cookie cutters. It was much easier and even Avery got to do it. They just snapped right out afterwards. It was fun, made the craft take a little longer, and had more to show for it too!