Paper Chain Update

Anyone guessing baby was correct!

We're due March 28th! :-)

Paper Chains

I love paper chains!

I haven't always loved paper chains. When I was in college, one of my roommates suggested making a paper chain for something exciting that was coming up. I laughed...paper chains were for seven-year-olds counting down to Christmas. I was obviously much to mature to make a paper chain...yeah, right!

I can't remember what my first paper chain was for, but since, I have made a paper chain counting down the days until Wil would come visit me in Provo, to my grandma's retirement, until my wedding - I'm sure there were others, I just can't remember them right now.

One guess what this paper chain is for...

***No guessing if you already know the answer - that's cheating!

Shoedini

Alright, so I haven't been the best about posting lately. I'm still not in the mood to write a ton, but I thought you might enjoy this Shoedini commercial.

Wil and I laughed for a good 15-30 minutes last night after this commercial came on.

Enjoy!

No Parents!

Last night, we invited all of Wil's nieces over for a slumber party. It was great fun!

Unfortunately my camera battery was dead, so I didn't get pictures of everything...I would plug it in and then unplug and take a picture or two real fast and then have to plug it in again because it would die. :-)

This was our agenda:

1. Dinner - everyone made their own English Muffin Pizzas
2. Flour/m&m Game - we took a cup of compacted flour and made a flour tower of sorts. Then we put an m&m on top of the flour. Everyone took turns using a knife to scrape away some of the flour from the tower. The person who made the tower fall had to eat the m&m...without using their hands! (WISH we would have gotten pictures).
3. Wall Art - Wil came home SO excited about this idea! You take a willing child, stand them on a chair next to the wall and put tons of masking tape on them...like so.


Then you remove the chair...if you did it right, they should be stuck to the wall! The girls thought this was SO funny!

Those are screams of delight and not terror; I promise!

After we removed Clarisa from the wall!

4. Hide & Go Seek, in the dark!
5. Homemade ice cream.




6. Movie/bed time...I think we overestimated two things - the sleepiness of the girls and the power of a movie to make them sleep! They watched TWO entire movies and didn't fall asleep! Wil actually had to get up once or twice to tell them they needed to quiet down...WHEN did we turn into our parents? I remember the days of my grandma coming out during a sleepover at my house to tell us to be quieter!

Chicken Soup for MY Soul

Do you remember those Chicken Soup for the Soul books? You know, the ones where the whole point was to make you cry...because the person's dog Penny died and the next day they found a penny and just knew it was sent as a message from their beloved deceased pet?

So, I actually kind of liked those...but I've discovered a much better form of Chicken Soup for MY Soul. It consists of doing something completely silly and totally fun. Seriously, an hour of this makes you feel light. :-)

I think that's why I've been enjoying working with the Young Women at church so much! Once a week, I get to do something completely silly and not about me at all!

I had a BLAST tonight...seriously, SO much fun! They took a HUGE 30 or 40 foot by 10ish foot tarp, put it on a small hill, covered it with dish soap and water and made the COOLEST water slide ever...SERIOUSLY, the coolest. water. slide. EVER!!!

I'm still giggling about it...that's all!

Experiment

We came home last night to a noticeable lack of electricity. We're not sure exactly what happened but about three streets lost electricity for at least six hours. We bought some dry ice from the fridge and freezer so we wouldn't lose any groceries and then went to sleep at my grandma's house...it's HOT in Phoenix when there's no air conditioning!

Wil had all sorts of great uses for the dry ice after the electricity came back on.

First there was this...


Followed by this...


Yes, that's a bottle filled with dry ice and water, securely sealed and thrown into the middle of our backyard. Have you ever tried this experiment? It eventually explodes.

Ours landed here....on the porch...in Elvis's summer pool.


And looked like this, the entire bottom was blown off.


I'm amazed none of our neighbors called the cops; it was LOUD! Wil's next idea was to try a cinder block, but I vetoed that one. I can be such a party pooper sometimes!!!

P.S. We have leftover dry ice, and a cinder block, if you would like Wil to try this experiment at your house, just let us know...I'm sure he would be happy to oblige; you know, for the sake of science!

Clippers

We don't have children of our own, so we make up for it by torturing other people's children whenever possible.


Wil cut Junior's hair tonight. You would have thought he was abusing him by all of the crying that came from the bathroom! But, it turned out super cute!