crazy

It's been a couple of crazy days around here.

Last night was the annual cub scout Blue & Gold banquet.

My in-laws drove in from out of town about 5 minutes before we were to head out the door & set up. It was a crazy whirlwind of dogs barking, uniforms being thrown on & copies being printed out at the last second... as they walked in the door. Oh well- that's life.My boys & I were in charge of a couple of games. We had an opener, plus a group activity - trent is handing it out the opening game here at the door. Everyone was trying to name all 50 states. Hard to do... but not for these guys. I wish I would've taken some pictures of trent here in his uniform with his grandparents!? What was I thinking? I guess it was all the commotion.

(Grandma & Grandpa had driven all day- they are here to visit for a couple of days. We were getting pounded with snow- 8 inches. Luckily the snow was coming from the south so they missed most of it until the got with in an hour of our house. I was nervous all day knowing they were on the roads...)

These dinners are not reverent type, fancy affairs.OH NO... after the prayer the boys hit the food like a pack of hungry beasts. I tell you what- my two semesters as a REcreation major at BYU- before I dropped out are really paying off ;)I was also was assigned to bring a plate of cookies but thought mini cupcakes would be cuter & so easy to make- I was right about the cuter part. One cake mix makes 3 1/2 pans of mini cupcakes. There are 24 to a pan so that means 3.5x24= 84!! I was thrilled to have so many, but then it took a while to decorate them. I had some white dipping chocolate leftover from Christmas, melted it & dipped each cupcake in it, then placed an m & m on top. They were really easy & so darn cute! I stuck them in the cold garage until the chocolate set up & they were great. NO messy, sticky frosting and that little bit of crunch from the candy coated top- YUM! If you make them plan a little more time that you think- not because it's tricky--- there are just so many of them! Tonight Grandma saved the day!

Trent had an assignment to decorate a plain paper doll into a Native American for a special Native American program next week in school. I normally love art type projects, but an art project with Trent is over the top difficult. He really doesn't want to participate. Grandma used to be a kindergarten teacher & is all over this kind of stuff. He didn't give her the hassle he would've given me... HURRay for Grandma!

with some help from Chloe & every art supply we could dig up from around the house...

Mission accomplished!
I cannot tell you how happy I am that this project is done.
Brett & I had a meeting at the Jr. High for Hailey's musical theater class, Jack was running off from rugby practice to help with an Eagle project & it was youth night at church- oh my.
(I didn't realize this paper doll was fuzzy- If I get around to it I will post a better picture of it tomorrow.)

It's been a busy two days...

I'm heading off to bed!