Kinect Rush

I won a party on a website where they give you the theme, some party items/favors, and then you go with the flow and create the rest.  The better you do the more likely you are to win another party so I decided to go for it.  Since it wasn't a birthday party or something big I didn't have to worry about ruining it.  I think it turned out pretty good and the kids keep asking for another party.  Maybe I did to well....

The party was for Kinect Rush, a new video game that hadn't quite come out yet. I think it has come out now.... I'm a little late on the post. It is a Xbox game with CARS, Toy Story, Incredibles, Ratatoille, and Up. I went mostly CARS for my theme but threw in some Toy Story as well.

The idea of the party was to play the video game and introduce people to it.  We did that at first, but it became difficult with more people.  First, the kids all wanted to play.  Second, once I showed them all there were other things to do (like crafts) none of them wanted to play.  :) 

So we all ventured over to the craft table (don't you love it, daddy got it for me!) to make our cars.  We also flowed back and forth between the other activities. 

Aside from making our own cars to race we also had some other activities for the kids to participate in when they wanted to take a break from decorating.

We also had a photo booth to dress up like your favorite Toy Story character.  It was a big hit with the kids. 

Once everyone got their cars done we took them outside to race.  However, we quickly came back in and just ran around the basement because the wind kept blowing off the car parts.  :) 

 

And finally, we went upstairs and had snacks. 

The girls had a great time and our guests seemed to as well.  I hope we get to have another party like this sometime! 

Grandma's Ipad 2

Next up on grandma's Ipad is Troublemaker's birthday lunch at Texas Roadhouse. 

And finally is when Grandma and Nana came to visit and I roped them into helping make the Lamb of God Easter baskets. 



Grandmas Ipad

So my parents came to visit this weekend and I finally got some pictures off my moms new Ipad.  For the past three or four visits she has said she needed a special cord to get her pictures off so I have patiently waited.  This visit I found out it isn't the "special" cord... it is the regular I-whatever cord.  So, I got the pictures.  And instead of going back into each post and inserting the pictures I will just put them all here and do a summary post.  Because it seems easier.  :) 

These are the first pictures grandma took on her new Ipad.  I'm glad we had a willing model because they are super cute! 

Bumpkin and Troublemaker couldn't be left out on the fun. 

And one of my favorite

Next is the St. Patty's Day parade.  Grandma got some good pictures of the kids playing in the car that I didn't get. 

And since they gave her the sandbox while I was in the shower, here is the sandbox Troublemaker got for her birthday. 



Easter celebration

I'm a little on the late side with this post but your daddy has been out of town for the past two weeks for a training so I have an excuse.  Of course, there is no excuse for the week before he left but we will just forget about that part......

I am always looking for new fun traditions to start and I found one this year for Easter.  Actually, Aunt Heather found it, the day before Easter.  But since daddy was at work and we didn't have any plans we dove right into it.  We EGGED some of our friends. 

The directions said that we needed to egg two people, but we went a little overboard.  I let each of the older girls pick two people to egg, then I also picked two.  So six it was!  But it wasn't the typical egging that I may or may not have done in high school, this was the socially accepted form of egging.  We hid Easter eggs in the yard (or just left them on the porch for those houses we went to while it was raining) and left a few homemade goodies.  The first three houses were "in town" as we refer to it now, so we did those in the morning. 

While we were "in town" we also went to our churches Easter Celebration.  I love how our church does it!  They take the fun aspects of Easter with the egg finding and the games and the religious parts of Easter and weave them together to make for one awesome event.  So we took our Lamb of God Easter baskets that we made with grandma and Nana and went to the celebration. 

After the church celebration we got back to egging people; this time in our neighborhood.  We made some cute cookies using some extra frosting and got back to sneaking around. 

Bumpkin and Troublemaker thought it was so much fun and would have kept egging people all day if I would have let them.  But we ran out of eggs, baskets, and homemade goodies so we called it good.  Plus, we were already breaking the rules and had egged three times the amount of people we were supposed to.  (Not a good sign that you girls might break the cycle of being an overachiever.....)

Finally, we ended the night making Resurrection Cookies.  I think these are a wonderful idea, but I missed the big bold writing at the very top of the instructions that says to preheat the oven before you put the cookies in, then turn it off when you put them in.  So ours didn't do anything during the night... but it was the thought and story that mattered.  We will try again next year and I'm willing to bet I won't make that mistake again. 

There is a bunch of symbolism in how the cookies are made but here is just some of it (basically what I got pictures of).  We had to beat the almonds to symbolize the beating Jesus received. 

We mixed the ingredients together and they were white to symbolize the purity of Jesus. 

Then we put the cookies in the oven (that was supposed to be preheated... opps!) and sealed it shut (with tape).  This symbolized the sealing of the tomb with the stone. 

And finally, we put Elmo on duty.  He sat in front of the "tomb" and kept watch just like the Roman soldiers.  He took his job very seriously. 

Inch worm

We have an inch worm!  Actually, we have had an inch worm for a few weeks (March 19 to be exact) and you are now very efficient at your army crawl, but it took mama awhile to get it up here.  Love you Mimi!  I can't believe it is all going so fast....