More August moments

Maddy at her desk: She loves doing art, reading, and writing and we find her at this desk so often. She loves it.

The girls love claw machines and so they invented their own using a shoe box, part of the Dr. kit stethoscope, and a bunch of Maddy's Shopkins.

Both girls love playing with Lego's so much. 

They like doing the sets but also like to make up their own things. 

One day Abi made this Pinkie Pie: 

Maddy made a dog: 

And another day I came downstairs to find the girls having a spa day in the kitchen. 

Staycation: Days 2,3,and 4- swimming, park, library, toys, and movie

On the second day of the staycation we went to our local rec center to swim. 

Maddy played on the climbing wall for a few minutes. 

This is the only picture I have from swimming. 

The pool was great. They had a wave pool, water slides, kid play areas, regular pools, and a lazy river. 

We spent a few hours there and had a great time. 

The next day we started out the day by going to the park at lunchtime. I let them have lunchables for a picnic lunch.
And then they played on the toys for a while.

After this we went to the Orem library. They had a Pokemon scavenger hunt similar to the one we had done at the Provo library earlier in the summer. 

At the end of this one they got little buttons. 

Abi, always having to make silly faces.

The last stop of this day was to go to Toys R Us where they each got to pick a toy that was around $10. Abi used some of her saved up money to put toward hers so she could get a bigger toy. 

The next day we took it easy. We stayed in cozy clothes, made popcorn, and watched a new movie we had picked up earlier in the week. 

All three of these days were really fun!

More December moments

Here are some of our December activities I haven't posted about yet. 

One day we decided to make Salt Dough ornaments. 

They had a lot of fun cutting these out. 

 

Abi's ornaments ready to bake. 

Maddy wasn't ready to stop and she cut out ornaments for at least an hour while dancing to the Christmas music that was playing. 

As soon as they were all baked they began to paint them. 

Another activity we had really been looking forward to was making a gingerbread house. 

I hear about people using silicon molds all the time and loving them. I found one for a gingerbread house and was so excited to try it out. 

It was kind of an epic fail. 

It still tasted good though according to Maddy who kept sneaking pieces while it was cooling off.

The house wouldn't stand up or stick together so I came up with the idea to just have them each have one side of the house mold on a plate and they could decorate it that way. That ended up working really well and they had a great time decorating. 

We also made some cookies. 

The frosting ended up really runny and I was going to fix it but they wanted it left that way.

It was really messy.

They got along really well over Christmas break and played Legos a ton.

Their favorite was Abi's Grand Hotel she got on her birthday from us and my parents. 

There was also a lot of snow play.