Cinco de Mayo

So we're loving the new cupcake cook book called What's New Cupcake. So fun. On May 5th we had a little party and the kids looked through the book and decided that they wanted to make alien cupcakes. What a mess! But it was fun. Then in honor of Cinco De Mayo we made sombrero cookies and paper bag pinatas. It was a fun (sugary) day!

Earth Day!

For Earth day the kids learned more about recycling and taking care of the earth. Here's their art project...Mr. Earth.

Savanna - an African grassland

I'm tyring to make up for lost time with this blog so here's another post of a school activity. In science the kids were learning about habitats. As part of the grassland habitat lesson we expanded it to the Savanna. The kids tried making the Martha Stewart pipe cleaner animals...not as easy as she claims. They turned out pretty cute though. The kids had fun!

and No, that's not a monkey hanging from Isaiah's arm...it was supposed to be a Giraffe but to him it was more fun to make him into a "circus giraffe".

Last day of school!

For the last day of school we wanted to something really fun. The units were all finished and projects completed so we opened up our Smithsonian kit and the kids chose what crystal they wanted to make. Isaiah chose the Emeralds (green - his favorite color) and Rebekah chose Pink amethyst (Pink- her favorite color). It was really cute seeing them wearing the kid size safety goggles and mixing the solution. Now we wait!

Father Son Campout

Last weekend was our wards annual Father Son campout. Isaiah talks about this ALL year. We found giant marshmallows at the store. They were awesome! I've never seen marshmallows that big. So he was excited to take those to make giant s'mores. They had a fun time. On the way they found a black widow crawling out of the tent, EEW!

They went fishing and flew a kite (spiderman kite of course). Isaiah tried convincing everyone that he is indeed, the Hulk. "See my muscles?!" and tried kissing a huge toad. :) Sounds fun!

Yoda

This last Christmas I made the kids all Yoda hats. They really liked them (especially Isaiah). The other day while Isabel was eating Isaiah found the hats again and was sure Isabel wanted to wear hers. They do look pretty cute huh? :)

Zoo trip

Okay...so it's been a LONG time :) Here's some updates...School's out (woo hoo!) Rebekah is going into second grade and Isaiah will be starting his Kindergarten year this August. Isabel is almost 16 months now and as cute as ever!

So as our first act of fun on summer break we went to the Sacramento zoo with a few friends and had a great day. Rebekah loved playing "the navigator". She was glued to the map for the first hour or so we were there! As soon as we'd get to one animal she'd say "Okay, now we're going to go the the....." I had to remind her to enjoy the animal too once we got there then we could move on. :)

Isaiah was really enthralled with this exotic talking parrot there. That was the longest we stayed at any animal (and he begged to go back after we were all done -so we did). The bird was saying really cute and funny things. He'd mimic what sounds the kids were doing. Isabel was really enjoying it too! She was trying to sing along with the bird when it would sing "Lalalalala". I wish I had my video camera!