Summer Snow Day!

Since the summer is so hot, we decided to have a little cool down by having a Summer Snow Day! We had cousins over and started off our day with a fun game. I divided the kids into three teams. They picked one person to be the snowman and the other two had to turn them into a snowman using toilet paper, hats, scarves, a paper carrot nose, and paper buttons.
Taby & Johnny quickly started wrapping up Riley:  

Alyssa wrapped Lily while Ceri looked on:

And originally, Zach & Ares were going to turn Emma into a snowgirl, but she wasn't really into it. ;0)

So Amy helped Ares wrap Zach:

The first ones done were these three. They did a great job!

Zach also made a very nice snowman. 

And Alyssa & Ceri did a good job turning Lily into a snowgirl!

Our next fun project was playing with freezy dough! All you need for this is shaving cream and either Kool-Aid for the scent & color, or food coloring for just the coloring. Then stick it in the freezer and let it freeze overnight.

They had fun with this, but it melted fairly quickly and it stained their hands.
:0(

Next up was making ice cream in a bag. We mixed 1 cup half & half with 2 tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla in a small ziplock bag. Then we added ice & salt to a gallon sized ziplock bag, added the smaller bag (making sure it's closed tightly!) and then closing the big bag tightly.
Each of the kids shook their bags all over the room while watching frozen. 

While the kids were shaking their bags to make ice cream, I made them frozen hot chocolate. (You can find the recipe here: www.yourhomebasedmom.com/frozen-hot-chocolate/#_a5y_p=1752774

It was really yummy & the kids finally finished their shaking and were able to enjoy their ice cream too!

The final treat of the day were these ice cream cookies I made by dipping the tops of Nutter Butters into almond bark and sprinkles and topping with an M&M.

The kids thought these were yummy too!
I hope the kids had fun, I know mine did, and this was a fun new thing to try during the summer!

Sponge Bombs!

This is the third year in a row we have done sponge bombs. To see how I made them, go here: http://loganfamilyof5.blogspot.com/2012/07/sponge-bombs.html

I still have the same ones after three years, so they are pretty hardy!

Before the sponge bomb "war" began, the cousins got in a little loving each other time. :0)
Ceridwen with David:

Aunt Kathleen holding David with Ceridwen and Lily:

Emma being a dork. ;0)

Ceri & Emma loving on each other!

Then they began!
We had 4 buckets/bowls filled with water around the yard and they soaked the sponges in the water to throw at each other!

Ceri loved it & was right there with the big kids! Brigid did not like it and went off to play in Emma's playhouse. Emma tried it, but decided she didn't like ti either:

 

Lol! She's like, "Ummm....you can have this Lily...." hee hee

Ceri loved the water, so Lily dumped water on her:

Since Ceri liked it, Emma would like it too, right??

NOPE! I think this is where Emma went to go play with Brigid. :0)

The big kids just kept running around throwing sponges at each other and getting each other & themselves wet!

After Sponge bombs, Amy gave everyone popsicles/ice cream bars!
I'm so glad my kids get to do so many things with their cousins!

4th Annual Ramsey Cousin Water Balloon Fight!

We had our 4th annual Ramsey cousin water balloon fight last week! We had cousins from Oklahoma & Texas in town so it seemed like the perfect time to do it. The weather was also beautiful!! We have never had such a cool water balloon fight day!
The kids all played at on the playground while we waited for everyone to get there.

Once all of the balloons got there, we set them up on towels laying around the park.

Then it was time to line up to get ready to run to the balloons!!

We let the littlest go first!

Then the big kids took off!

 

After the fight it was time for a picnic!

After that, is was more playing for the kids and talking for the adults!!
It was such a fun way to spend time with family!