Friday, June 29, 2012

Brave

The kids and I went to the movies today and saw Brave.  It was a very cute movie and we all enjoyed it.  Colin even went with us.  I got to thinking after the movie how when I was little there were only a few princesses.  Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were the only princesses then. 
Now there are 11 of them.  I just wonder how many there will be when Saige has kids.  Just something to ponder...  Why can't life be more like the happy fairy tales?  My life is very seldom perfect, chances are no rich prince is going to come along and save me, if I sang it sure wouldn't sound like that, and if I had done what some of these girls did I would have been grounded. 
 Looking at the below picture, Merida from Brave just looks different from the others and it wasn't a "typical" princess film.   Maybe that is what got me thinking.  
 And why don't we see these ladies like this ever?  I had to laugh when I saw this one.  It's the first one I had ever seen where they are all not standing with their beautiful dresses and flowing hair and smiling.  I think this group looks a lot more like true life   :) 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Suckers

These 2 children are always saying "I'm bored" as I am sure most of the kids say occasionally during the summer.  I was looking at a wonderful blog  http://sassysites.blogspot.com/ and there was a link to making suckers.  We have lots of hard candy in the house because we use it in our cotton candy maker, so I decided to give them something to do.  Daniel loves mashing up the candy, but wanted nothing to do with creating the suckers.  Saige and I had fun.  :)  We just mashed the candy up and then spooned the candy onto the baking mat.  Then placed it in the oven at 350 for about 6 minutes. They turned out pretty cute and had very different flavors. 
 It was neat to watch the candy melt.  After it was done, we just rolled a stick in the candy and then it cool.
Of course we had to make cotton candy while we were waiting for the suckers to cool.  Talk about a sugar high!
This one we just placed a whole hard candy in the middle.  Cool effect.
 Saige put some candy hearts in hers and it turned out so cute!
Yummy!

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Rock pets

Tonight Saige wanted to do one of our summer projects.  She chose to make a rock pet.  She made a ladybug and I made a frog.  (Notice I did not put a close up picture of mine...I am SOOOO not an artist!)
Our rock pets are in the left corner under the bright flag.  The big plant is a jalapeno plant.  We use a lot of jalapenos and they make SUPER salsa.