Snow play at preschool

Today it was about 50 degrees so the kids had outside play time in their snow covered park. What fun!

The Blue and Gold Cub Scout dinner.

CT getting his Bobcat Award.


They had all the scouts make a cake for dessert. They had to choose one of the fifty states as there theme. So we picked PA. PA is called the "Keystone State." So I made a bundt cake and cut it in half to simulate a bridge. As you may or may not know that the keystone is the center block in the bridge that hold the whole thing up. Then we covered it with white frosting because "milk" is the state drink. Then we had red swedish fish swimming under our bridge because "brook trout" is the state fish. We also had lots of other interesting facts on and around out cake. It was a fun little project. And of course I forgot to take a picture. Hopefully you can visualize.

Cake Decorating

The Ninja Cake

The temple cake, even with angel Moroni.

Anyone for a slice of Pizza.

I forgot the name of this one. I 'm just going to call it the earthquake cake because it had a huge crack in the middle.

All the cakes were awesome and the kids had fun decorating them. Sorry, this was a YW/YM activity.

Winter break in PA

N with Bethany E with Conner.

CT with his friend Ty.

We had great fun seeing all our friends in PA again. We stayed at the Marriott and had lots of fun swimming while our friends were at school. The oldest two had play dates every night. Thanks to all our friends. We had a BLAST revisiting with you all again. Sorry I didn't get more pictures of everyone. I guess I was so excited to see everyone that I didn't remember to take enough pics. Next time I will.

Happy Valentines Day

We had a great Valentines Day! Peter and I went out the night before for dinner at ninety nine. It was good. This morning I took N to swim lessons. He is doing so good. Today he jumped off the block in to the water all by himself. He did have a float around his stomach.

Then later I took CT and CJ skiing. It was CT first time and he had a lot of fun. They both had a lesson while Mom took 5 or 6 runs by herself. It was great, the first time that I had been skiing in about 10 years. Then we all used the rope toe for a couple of hours. While mom tried to teach the boys some more stuff. We had a lot of fun!

Play dough fun!

E being Ironman too! They put the playdough on their chest and hands.

N made himself into Ironman!

I got a great recipe for homemade play dough for N's preschool. Here it is, it stay soft forever!

2 cups flour

1 cup salt

4 tsp cream of tartar

2 cups water

2 Tbsp oil

food coloring

Mix in a medium saucepan until a ball forms and the dough is no longer wet. Knead on wax paper until dough is smooth. Put in plastic bag after total cooled. The kids liked to play with it while it was warm.

Pinewood Derby

CJ took First place!

CT took 2nd place, but it was really close.

CT has the red car!

CJ has a red car too! The one that is ahead a little.

CJ sweating a little.

CT's car is slightly ahead

The pinewood derby was lots of fun. This is the first one Peter has attended because he is so scared that the boys cars won't be good. So far every car that he has helped with has come 1st or 2nd. Not to bad but he still sweats. The boys were very excited! We encouraged them to be good sports because they know that not everyone can win. CT is hoping for 1st next year and CJ is done. He will be moving up to boy scouts in April.

Pizza Pizza

N's preschool got to go a real Italian restaurant and make pizza dough. E got to participate also. They had a lot of fun! Then they made us a real cheese pizza for us to sample. It was really yummy! I learned a great tip when you make pizza to keep it from getting soggy. You have to but the pizza on a dish towel or pizza stone or a cooling rack for a couple of minutes. The steam is what makes the crust go soggy. It really works! I used the cooling rack, then cut it back on the cookie sheet then put the pieces back on the cooling rack.

How much Snow is there in NY

N made this cute measuring stick at school. As you can see the snow is far above where his stick stops measuring. We have had tons more snow since then. About 3 feet total!