Teeth and Fairies

   

The Tooth Fairy came to visit our house twice in the last week.

First it came to Aurora who has been anxiously awaiting her first tooth to fall out.

When her tooth finally was able to be pulled by SUPER Dad, she place her little pearly tooth

under her pillow and the Tooth Fairy brought her one whole dollar!!

Then last night the tooth fairy visited Gracie. She had to have Oral surgery yesterday, and

had one tooth extracted and had had several root canals done and some gum surgery, so

she’s resting and drinking plenty of fluids, she also got a dollar for her big decaying molar.

Easter Adventures

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Click on the above link to see 43 pics from our Easter Adventures. You can view the pictures as thumbnails or even as a slide show! (This is the first option at the top right)

We had many Easter adventures over the last couple of weeks. It started off with Grandma Peterson coming down on the Jerauld Spring Break Van-O-Fun! We then had a fun filled weekend of eating out, free babysitting (by grandma), and a Easter Egg hunt to remember.  We went to a community Easter EGG Hunt Sponsored by Grace Point Church, it was lots of fun with free ice cream, free kids crafts, free bounce houses, and a HUGE huge egg hunt where 25,000 eggs where dropped from a helicopter! Sounds great huh…. well its all fun and games until your child gets lost in a crowd of THOUSANDS!!!! In the 4-6 age area parents were supposed to stay behind the lines while the kids gathered eggs, unfortunately no one got the memo, so when Gracie ran out to get her eggs we lost her in the huge crowd. I was in a panic!!! My mom stayed with the other girls while Matt and I searched fro Gracie. It was horrendous, people everywhere. We split up can were calling for Gracie, while several other parents were shouting for their kids too. I got a feeling to stop and pray, so that’s just what I did. I stopped in the middle of the field with thousands of people passing by and prayed. Then I saw Matt with Gracie! He had found her with another little girl about her age and her mother. They were just about to take her to the kids lost and found tent. I was so relieved- but because of this we will never go to this big even again- It scared us to death. My girlfriend Alisha had also come to this activity with their family and their youngest got lost too.. after searching a good deal they were able to find her in the Lost Child Tent crying and worried. both mother and child cried that day. It was insane- i was so embarrassed to have taken my friend to such a big out of control event.

The kids were very spoiled and able to go to another Easter Egg hunt at their Uncle Phillips. Phillip has a 5acre farm in Hiko, Nv and the kids got to search for eggs in his park. They rode a pony and 4 wheelers, and play with their cousins. The Easter Bunny found them in Hiko, and left them a fun Bug Egg filled basket and they even got to go to Grandma Spencer’s church on Easter Sunday in their new dresses. We had a great time!!

Guardiansof Ga’hoole Cake

 

I made this cake and these cupcakes for the Young Women Fundraiser. In Family Fun Magazine they had the idea- click here to see. http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/night-owls-cupcakes-984215/ 

They were fun to make and sold well at the silent auction.

Aurora’s Robot

Aurora’s class has been reading “My Robot by Eve Bunting” This book is about different things a robot can do.

Aurora had a family homework assignment this week, to design and build a robot. The first thing Aurora asked for was blue construction paper. I asked her why and she said “I need it for my blueprint.” She wrote a design on blue construction paper with a white crayon. (sorry there is no image it didn’t show up well in the picture) She was also instructed to write a short paragraph describing her Robot and it’s special skills. She wrote “ My robot can do my homework for me. It plays games with me. It is very funny. It reads with me before bedtime. I like it that way. It goes to sleep with me. It guards me while I’m sleeping. It’s name is CooCoo Head.” We had a really fun time going to Lowes to look for parts on Family Night, PVC pipes for legs and feet, springs for arms (and yes they will wave at you), #10 cans for the body, a peach can for the neck, a lamp visor for the head and a head lamp for it’s brain. Aurora and her Dad are the engineers who put CooCoo together. You can’t tell very well from these pictures but a special feature of Aurora’s robot it that in the center of the funnel (lamp visor) is a light that turns on and off and also can blink. This is Aurora’s idea of it’s brain. And of course it’s a girl!! Aurora points out that while it’s wearing it’s necklace and tutu it is from a robot planet called “Hawaii”. (She thinks with these accessories it looks at though CooCoo Head will hula) You may also be wondering about the name CooCoo Head, no it does not imply crazy, it’s part of Aurora’s unique language of CooCoo. She has invented it herself and uses it often, most words in the CooCoo language include CooCoo and CooCoo-minga. Well CooCoo Head will be making her appearance at school tomorrow and we are anxious to see how she’ll be received. We are sure it will be to immense applause. Way to go Aurora!

 

Outfits I got for my Birthday

Here are a few new outfits I got for my birthday.
Most are Good Will finds. I got a skirt, a dress, four tops, and two jackets for only $24. The shimmery tops (green and blue) and black skirt I got on sale at Kohls.

Sewing Pioneer Wear

Little House on the Prairie Garb...

Aurora was invited to a Little House Birthday party, so my sewing skills needed to be dusted off and employed in Prairie Wear! I found an awesome blog: Buns and Baskets www.howtodresslikeapioneer.blogspot.com

It had a great tutorial on bonnets. So a sewing I did go... Gracie's bonnet brim is larger than Aurora's. We had a little more fabric left over from her skirt than from Aurora's; so it's closer to the pattern. I used a yard of fabric for both the skirt and bonnet but would have liked about a half more for the bonnet ties to be completed correctly, we improvised with satin ribbon covered with the little left over fabric on the ends to prevent fraying. All in all it was a fun project and I think I could do it again a lot faster. I'm thinking perhaps for Halloween we'll all be the Ingalls Family. We have a Charles (Matt), Caroline (Me), Mary (Aurora), Laura (Gracie), and Baby Keri (Ehlana). Could be cute!

Wild for Parties

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