Girl's Night In

I love to be a hostess.  There is nothing better than planning a party, then lovingly preparing an assortment of foods then welcoming friends into your home to share it with you.  I love that.  I did that this weekend.  It was Girl's Night In at my house.  

As I planned the evening, I wanted to have 'girly' food.  Or, to put it another way, as it was the eve of Super Bowl, 'anti-Super-bowl-party-food'.  The menu was vegetarian. Everything, except the crackers and chips, were homemade.

Wordless Wednesday 3-2-11

Oat Girl and I "helping" her mom with her dress fitting at the bridal shop.
 






























 Every bride should have some awesome helpers like us.

I actually really liked that dress.

Our littlest Angel, AHEM, Cheerleader!

Vicki is six.

She is also in first grade.

She is also a cheerleader.  Can you see her?

How about now?

 

These little girls were seriously adorable.  I was having a hard time keeping my camera still to get some pictures because I was smiling and laughing and almost crying the entire time.

They wiggled their butts.  They really did.

I almost cried.   Instead I laughed.

It just doesn't get better than this.

Except maybe when she snuggles with me at home and whispers, "You're the best Mommy in the whole wide world, Mom."  

Then I smile and say, "You're the best Vicki in the whole entire universe, Vicki."

Then usually some hugging is involved.  Or, maybe some giggling.  Often, both.

Gingerbread House

No I don't make my own gingerbread.  I really do not like working with gingerbread.  So, I admit, I bought a kit.  The house pieces are already made, and it comes with icing mix (horrible!) and candy.  We went shopping and the girls picked out some candies they would like to include. 

I started by making a rice krispie snack base.  Which I spread out on some strong cardboard covered with tinfoil.  I then made the gross icing mix and assembled the house.  Once it was set, I made a batch of my own decorators icing and piped on some details.  We allowed that to set and then the girls went to work!

They carefully considered each and every candy they placed on the house.  Vicki had chosen gummy worms for her candy.  She tried endlessly to convince us all that the worms should be all over the house.  We were not convinced.

I particularly like the way they did the roof!

Then once they finished decorating the house itself, they went to working on the "yard".  Now Vicki was very excited because she could now put her gummy worms in the yard. 

Because Samm is a girl whose heart is overflowing with love, she had to include a heart.

The path through the yard was my lone contribution to the yard. 

I just love the little "pebbles"!

And ....... VOILA!



Two very happy campers and one pretty darn cool gingerbread house!

Toad, Also known as Vicki's potential prince

We have a couple toads or frogs or whatever you want to call them living under our deck.  One is quite tiny and the other only moderately small.  They are both a greenish brown and bumpy. 

They frequently venture out from under our deck and hand out in our gardens.  I wasn't going to blog about them, because try as I might, I can't seem to get a really good picture one of them.   Everytime I find one hanging out in the garden, it sees me and runs, ahem, hops away.  And in it panick, hops right into the lattice that surrounds the space under deck every time. 

Every time. No ever accused a toad of being overly intelligent.

I have this one picture, but it is a little blurry as Vicki decided she couldn't stand still.  I think she was in early stages of peepeedancetosis. 

I have discovered a wonderful thing about having toads living under the deck.   Toad hunting (not in the death inducing I'm going to eat you way) occupies a 6 year old for extended periods of time. 

She has not yet named the toads.   Nor has she tried to kiss them.



Did you know that there is no difference between toads and frogs?  It is just two names for one crazycuteyetdisgustinghoppyjumpynotsosmart species.

That's Right!

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Muck n Muck celebrating Canada Day!