Enrichment

We had a Family Home Evening Enrichment. Here are some of the amazing ideas Jen came up with. The idea is that the treat is the activity as well. She had ideas for every month, but only some of them are here. (As in the better photos)

January- Banana snowman. He has a carrot nose, mini chocolate chip eyes/buttons and an apple hat.

March - mini apple pies (made in mini pie tins)

April - bunny slippers! How cute is this? Marshmallows cut and the sticky parts covered in pink sugar. They have partial or mini marshmallows for ears and tails. Chocolate jimmies and color sprinkles make the eyes and nose.

Roll out the gum drops. Make sure to do this on sugar or you will have very stuck gum drops.

Wrap them around a toothpick

Finished version (May)

Also May - gum drop and cookie flowers

June- Ants on a log, cheese and Chinese noodle bug and peanut butter and banana caterpillar.

July- Marshmallow eagle. He has a cashew nose and coconut feathers. He sits on a cookie base. (see family fun for instructions)

Summer months... ants in the sand


August- beach scene made of graham cracker crumbs on pudding

October - donut-hole acorns

Also October - Pumpkin and Frankenstein pudding (food coloring was used to color the pudding)

November - Cookie turkey

Also November - cornucopia from a sugar cone.

December - Picabo Sweet (skier) see family fun for instructions

Honorable mentions - but didn't photograph well
February- fortune cookies made from pie crust and dusted with pink sugar (write your own fortunes)
July- "sparklers" made from large pretzels dipped in almond bark and covered in sprinkles
August - Dirt cake (well this one wasn't actually there) Chocolate pudding with crushed Oreos on top. Add gummy worms and a fake flower and serve with a shovel.
September - Fish aquarium made from blue Jell-O with Swedish Fish inside. Add rock candy or fruit roll-up seaweed. Let Jell-O set for about 2 hours before adding fish. Be careful not to let it sit for too long. Jen did hers the night before and the fish had gotten quite um bloated?

Amazing ideas. Jen you're wonderful!

Community Outreach Day 2010 a.k.a. Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Service Day (is that title long enough?)

Each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day we go to campus and eat donuts, drink milk or juice and provide some service to the local community. We have colored, knitted hats, sewed footballs and this year we made tutus. BYU decided that funds are better used by serving the local community. This is done instead of paying large amounts on shipping to send projects abroad.


Here I am, ready for service, mom.

Everyone that walked by said I was soooo cute.

Look at my trick

We made tutus for the Mountainland Headstart.

I am NOT a girl!

Jesse working hard on his tutu.

oooh

ahhh

Cool cloud thing

Looking Back on Summer... Indiana State Fair

I am almost out of summer pictures... honest. Well here are some pictures from the Indiana State Fair.

Annual cheese sculpture

Sand sculpture in the Our Land Pavilion

Yep

Brought to you by the Beef Council, Soybean and Corn Alliances.

Ryan the same size as a blue ribbon squash ;)

A project against hunger in the Ball State Building... Ferris Wheel (little blurry sorry)

State Fair Covered Bridge... note the water bottles underneath

Hungry, hungry hippos

Random craft things

And it was this big!

Who is this? I haven't seen him for a week.

Aww

Cutey boy

A little time together during the chaos of summer.

Looking Back on Summer... picnic with Grandma

Let us forget that these pictures are a little shall we say old? Better late then never I guess. This is from our visit with Grandma Bevelhimer a little bit before the state fair.

Whew!

Enjoying Grandma's favorite snack in the park. Wings mmm...

Little baby Ryan... the banana

Grandma are you sure about this?

Devin playing with Jesse. I'm not sure who was enjoying it more. And the banana dog from the ice cream shop in Peru. Peggy and I may have visited it a few times over the summer ;)

Jesse the gentleman. See he has grandma and the baby.

Mmm

Here is Ryan in his new highchair. This is what part of his Christmas money was spent on. Thank you great grandpa and grandma!!

Nice and clean

What is this?

Mmm peas

Working on my musical skills.

Three strikes...

It is a good thing that our dishes are somewhat inexpensive. All save the bowl are easily replaceable. Turns out the bowl is now an "out of print" pattern. Sigh

This first one was me. I was pouring water from the canner into the sink. The water was still rather warm. I tried to avoid the dishes in the sink as much as possible. When I was pouring I heard a shink but could not see any broken glass. It was not until later that I discovered this...

Right along where the handle created a weak point. No shards of glass at all just a clean break.

This is the hard to replace bowl. Jesse dropped it while washing dishes. He dropped a plate last year and broke it too. (but it hasn't gotten him out of future washing). This one hit the metal edge around our sink. There is a nice crack that runs down the middle.

And finally...

This one was Ryan. Honest. There was a Corning wear dish on the edge of the sink and Ryan kicked it off while Jesse was letting him drink some water. The poor bowl was an innocent victim. This is the second time in two years we have fished shards of broken dish out of our garbage disposal. So three dishes in a month. I would say that is a record for a family with a baby that is barely half a year old.