Wordless Wednesday - Books

Box day is like Christmas for me! I made 5 orders for our books for next year. So far 3 of them have arrived. I can't wait to get the rest.

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Cupcake Camp

I love to find fun things for my girls to do during the summer. (Okay, lest you think that I don't want The Boy to have fun, rest assured he has PLENTY to keep him busy this summer.)

When the local cupcake bakery Sweet posted on Facebook about their cupcake camps, I was definitely interested. For only $25 per child, they were offering an hour and a half where the girls would learn to ice and decorate 2 cupcakes, make cake truffles, and get a tour of the kitchen.

If you look carefully, you can see icing on Sassy Pants's hat and chocolate on her face.

Here are their creations. You can tell that sprinkles were quite the decorating rage.

Goofing Around in Glasses

While we were at Claire's getting the twins' ears pierced, the girls had a great time trying on all the fun sunglasses.

Wordless Wednesday - Sleepy

I love this picture of Sassy Pants with the puppy.

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Our Faux Sleepover

For the twins' birthday party, we decided to have a faux sleepover. Faux = artificial, imitation, fake. Why? Because I don't think I could handle 8 to 10 additional girls overnight. My own 4 are quite enough. Instead, we had our "sleepover" from 6-9pm, told the girls to wear their pj's, and did sleepover activities.

When the girls got here, we had pizza for dinner. Afterward they went in the living room, where they watched a movie while I painted their nails. After nails were dry, it was back to the kitchen to put together campfire cones, waffle cones they filled with their choice of marshmallows, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, and coconut. While these were baking, the girls opened presents.

When the campfire cones were ready, we sang happy birthday to the birthday girls and then ate cupcakes and cones.

After eating, the girls played a game I found on Pinterest. You wrap candy in a huge ball of packing tape. One player gets the tape ball and the player in front of them a pair of dice. The player with the ball removes tape as fast as they can and anything they dislodge is theirs to keep. The player with the dice is trying to roll doubles as quickly as they can so they get a turn. As soon as they get doubles they pass the dice to the person next to them. Here's the picture from the original blog post at I'm a Young Women's Leader...Now What?

After the game, we turned out the living room lights, gave the girls glo-stick bracelets, and watched the rest of the movie until parents came.

Twins turn 10

Soccer Girl

Ballerina

It's been almost a month since the dynamic duo turned 10. I can't believe how quickly time is flying by!

First thing on birthday morning, they opened their presents from the family. Lots of fun crafty stuffy, Littlest Pet Shop animals, clothes and a new pair of flip flops for each of them.

The most important thing about turning 10 for them was getting their ears pierced. Robb had told them long ago that they couldn't get their ears pierced until they turned 10. When he said that, 10 seemed SO far away. Once 10 was right around the corner, he tried to renegotiate to 12 or 15, but they were having none of that. So as soon as it was open, we headed to the mall to get those ears pierced.

First up was Ballerina. She was the most nervous about it (and the one who's the most sensitive to pain) so it made the most sense to let her go first. She picked cute little pink hearts.

Next up was Soccer Girl. She picked peace symbol earrings; nothing too girly for her.

They picked IHOP for lunch so we hopped on over there. (Aren't I punny?) Chocolate chip funny face pancakes for Soccer Girl and create-a-face pancakes with fruit face and yogurt hair for Ballerina.

That night Sassy Pants and Little Red had softball games, but afterward we headed home for cake. You can probably tell whose cake is whose.

They had their birthday party the next night. That will be a post for another day (hopefully tomorrow, but we'll see).

Wordless Wednesday - Glasses

Wow! It's already Wednesday. I can't believe I forgot to get this posted earlier.

While goofing off in Claire's one day, Little Red found these glasses, which we thought were just too cute.

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