Halloween Craft Day 2

We had our second Halloween Craft Day yesterday!
Lily, Camden, and Johnny made pumpkin windsocks!!
They worked hard gluing their faces on....

and then adding streamers!

Then we made footprint ghosts!!

All three kids agreed that the paintbrushes tickle your feet!

Then we added googly eyes & mouths.

Oooooo! Scary ghosts!

Here are all three pumpkins!

I can't wait to do more Halloween projects!

Ice Cream Sandwiches and a Sleepover

On Monday night we checked off number 14 on our summer list:

Have A Sleepover

It also happens to be the last thing we needed to check off of our list!!

The boys wanted to invite their cousins Tabitha & Alyssa over.

To make the sleepover extra fun, we decided to make ice cream sandwiches.

First we needed cookies.

We had chocolate, chocolate chip, and peanut butter.

The next thing we needed was ice cream!

Then we needed stuff to roll our ice cream cookies in:

They spread ice cream on a cookie, smooshed another cookie down on top, then rolled it in their choice of candy.

This was really messy, but a lot of fun!!

And really yummy!

Here are a few that the kids made:

After they ran around, running off some of that sugar,

We settled down for a movie.

They did stay up pretty late, but they didn't get up until 8:15.

That was just fine with me! ;-)

Thanks Taby & Alyssa for coming over to have a sleepover!

Now all of the things the kids wanted to do are crossed off of our list!

The boys start school next Wednesday and Lily starts on the 24th.

Everyone is super excited!!!

Fountain and Park Fun

Sometimes I wonder how it is that I have lived in this city my entire life and I do not know everything that is in it.
I did not know that a cool fountain that kids could splash in existed.
I also did not know a playground was located right next to it.
It is in Riverside Park.
I know where Riverside Park is....I just have never been in Riverside park.....
even though I did my student teaching at Riverside.....
The power of observation people, it's a good thing. =)
Anyway......
My sister Dianna took her and our brother's boys to it last week.
They had a ton of fun!
So, she invited my sister Mary, me and our kids to go with her this week.
I wasn't too sure how well Lily would like it.
She is not a fan of sprinklers.
Camden showed her the ropes though, and I think she really enjoyed it after she got used to it.

There was no "getting used to it" for the boys though......

It was all or nothing for them!

The playground is literally right next to the fountains.

Cooper and Carson showed my boys that their wet swim trunks make you go down the slides fast!!
They loved it!

Lily liked climbing up this net.

Then is was back to the fountains....

.....and back to the playground.....

..and back to the fountains....

After several times of running back and forth, we settled the kids down for a picnic.

Thanks Dianna for inviting us!

The kids had SO much fun!