Seasonal Fun

At a yard sale, Emily and I scored a couple of old, gimpy tents.  The kids loved playing in them in the back yard.  They had their tablets and popcorn and dolls all snuggled up.  Even Alice, though she had already moved on when I took these pictures.

 We pulled out the Halloween bin, and played with a giant bear head.  The twins turned into some creepy four legged four armed monster. = )

The rubber bats have a new home.

and I broke out a cute little neon sign.  We found a second little ghost in Alice's computer cabinet to display on the other side of the sign.  But as of right now, they are both MIA. = /

I made up my grandmother's cottage pie recipe.  It was just perfect. = )  I even brought one to share with my MOPS ladies!

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Cookie Making

On Wednesday, sometimes the kids get out a couple of hours early.  This past Wednesday was one of those days, so we decided to make some cookies with Abby, Big Emily and Aubrey!

Since Alice and Big Emily don't have to have a stool, they went first and rolled out the dough.

Since it is difficult for the littler ones to roll and cut, Nicole took over that task when the kids decided they'd rather go play than make cookies.

Once the cookies were baked everyone came back in to decorate!

Once batch one was finished, the kids went back and played, so we decided to just make the rest of the cookies round and decorate them ourselves.

The round ones were the ones that were sent in to teachers, because I knew they were not contaminated with licked fingers, or worse... = p

We made the plan for next year, that we will make the cookies in advance, and just get together to decorate them. = )

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