Adventures in Sledding

Last Wednesday while the rest of Bend was stripping off their jackets, riding their bikes and working in their yards, we were bundling up looking for boots and mitts.

Friends thought we were crazy, but it was the perfect weather for sledding just 25 minutes up the mountain. It was probably 40 degrees which meant the snow was pretty wet, but we had a great time and weren't cold at all (at least until the sun went behind the mountain and we started to feel the cold on our wet hands)

Wanna come sledding with us??

Knifty Knitters

The weekend before last we had a "Servipalooza" for our Quarterly Enrichment meeting. I came home with extra yarn and circular looms and the kids went to town on Sunday.

All the kids just hung out in our room for a couple of hours and made a bunch of baby hats.

Even Abby and Ethan could make them! I was super impressed!

Here are a couple we finished.
With a 20% off coupon from Joanne's I think I paid around $3.50 for the looms, if you're interested. Pretty cool!

EZ Bakin'

Doesn't everyone have fond memories of the EZ Bake Oven?

What could be more fun than taking an hour to make two tiny pans of cake?

(what you probably don't remember is this... 6 little dirty bowls, 6 little dirty spoons, and 2 cups. Grrr.)
Oh, the excitement and thrill once they are done cooking

Ah, perfection!

Too bad her BROTHER ATE THEM when he got home from school before she could!!

Oh well, just more EZ Bake fun for next week.

Battle of the Books

Ethan recently participated in the "Battle of the Books" at school. The kids are supposed to read the books on a list and then are put in teams to answer questions about the books. They even buzz in like they do on "Jeopardy"

It takes a lot of concentration :D

It was actually kindof exciting. When the buzzer went off the teams were tied and they had to have a tie breaker. He did a good job and it was a lot of fun to watch. :D