Pretty Sugar Cookies with marshmallow "frosting"

So, I've been a little stressed lately, and I decided to do something fun and creative to get my mind off of things. William and I made sugar cookies, but I thought I'd try something different to frost them. Even though it looks like fondant, it's not. It tastes much better. :)

Here's what I did:

I melted a bag of marshmallows with 1/4 cup of butter, then separated it into 4 small bowls. To the bowls I added food coloring, red, green, yellow, blue. Then, I added powdered sugar a little at a time until it made a soft dough. I rolled the dough out, and using cookie cutters, cut the shapes to "frost" the sugar cookies with. I just love how they turned out.

Shaving Cream fingerpainting

One of our favorite multi-sensory activities. Squirt out some shaving cream on the table. Let the kids put a few drops of food coloring of their choice, and the let them have fun!! We did this inbetween General Conference Sessions on Saturday.

Thunder in the Valley

Even though we've lived here for 14 years, we've never been to the Airshow they have at the little airport here. One of the reasons why we hadn't gone in the past is because we can always see the airshow in the sky without having to pay to walk into the actual show area. This year, Alan went with his boyscout troop to do a fundraiser for scout camp. So, we thought it might be fun to go this year. We also saw from the outside, some of the fun looking inflatable rides that they had on the grounds, so we went. Unfortunately, the inflatables cost extra, so because it was $30 just to walk through the gate, we passed on the inflatable rides. That made William really upset, but he got over it, eventually. :)

It was in the mid 80's which is too hot to be walking around on pavement in the sun, and that spoiled the fun a little, but we still enjoyed looking at the neat airplanes.

Oxbow meadows field trip

Georgia Cyber Academy had a field trip at Oxbow Meadows, an Evironmental learning center here in Columbus. The kids had fun meeting up with their other GCA friends and going on a scavenger hunt around the whole center.

Happy Birthday Oreo!!

The Oreo Cookie, which we love, turned 100 years old in March. To celebrate, we made home made oreos.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Suess!!

Here's just a few pics of our the kids (minus Sarah who was at her school), dressed up as The Cat in the Hat on Dr. Suess's birthday. We also attempted to make green eggs and ham. They tasted good, but didn't look quite right. Kaitlyn also read us all "Green Egg's and Ham" by Dr. Suess.

Making orange juice

With oranges in abundance and at a good price, we've bought alot of them in the early months of the year. It was a good thing, because many things can be learned from oranges. :) Here we are making juice from them. We also measured how much juice we could get from one orange. It was about 1/2 cup. Good thing we had alot of oranges!!

Shadow puppets

One of the unit's in Kaitlyn's science class was learning about light. She learned about things that are transparent, translucent, and opaque. To illustrate something that is translucent, Kaitlyn and William got to make a Shadow puppet theater. We stretched a white sheet across some PVC pipes, which as you know, we have in abundance, and put a lamp behind it. (You can also stretch it across chairs) For the pupets, you just cut out some distinct shapes of animals, people etc., and glue them to a popsicle stick. Here's a few pics of the fun.