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Monday, February 14, 2011

You MELT my heart!

So we are on Round 2 of the Blizzard and its Snow Day 1 of this weeks break, so I thought we would begin working on the kids Valentine's for school. We made it into a family project and even big bro Kam helped!  Those are his hands below.  
I had the kids help take the wrappers off some extra crayons we had laying around the house.
Then they each broke the crayons as small as they could.  We then placed them in a bowl. 

We then evenly distributed them broken crayons in a cookie sheet I purchased at 
Wal-Mart for $9.00


We had preheated the oven to 250 and then placed the cookie sheet in there for 10-15 minutes.  Be careful when removing the sheet form the oven!

 Let them cool for 10 minutes, then I placed the sheet in the freezer for 2-5 minutes.  And then plopped them out!  

We created a few different sayings:
Have a COLORFUL Valentine's Day
You COLOR my world
You make my HEART flutter
I wish I would have thought of 
You MELT my heart!

We also made these for some of our friends that we aren't in class with.  
They are glow sticks get it.............
light-like?!?!
This adorable valentine came from Jacie,  she's so crafty!

 Here our Ky and Kenzi 
at their 
Valentine's Party
 at school!

We hope everyone had a very special day!
Happy Valentine's from the 
Mischievous Maple's

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Sledding with Friends

After all of our Upward BBall games we met up with the Cargals and Burchettes for an afternoon of SLEDDING!
Here we go!!!!!!


Ky started off with a bang, but quickly got chilled and was ready to go home!



It was quite the walk back up the hill.


Melissa and Stephanie decided to give 'er a go! 



WIPE OUT!!!

Chaz wants a turn!

Brad is showing off!


Joe, Chaz and Kameron racing down!  I wonder who will win?

Kam's got the lead.




Chaz is catching him.



Oh no, Kam is loosing it, he's facing the wrong way!

Chaz won!!  Kam took second and I'm not sure if Joe even finished!!

Watch out Makenzi!
LOL!!  This is so much fun!

Here comes Maddi



Hi Maddi!

Back up the hill!

 Kam wanting me to take a continuous shot of him sledding down the hill!








SMILE!

Having a BLAST!

CHEESE!


The BIG hill!  Chaz took Kenzi, Chloe and Ally to the BIG ONE!  












What a great day with friends.  Are you wondering why there is so much mud and grass?  If so let me explian...during our Blizzards the temperature was literally freezing(haha).  Almost to cold to bare, so we waited til it warmed up a bit and when it started to warm up it started melting....FAST!  Therefore, it was not only chilly, but we also got crazy muddy dirty.  I think I still have a load of laundry from that day to clean...again!  Even though, it was still a great time!