Another overnight stay

 

I have just a few pictures to share with you from last weekend when Alaina and Ruby spent the night.  I didn't take as many as usual.

The weather was awful when we went to pick them up on Friday afternoon, so we just stopped for supper at Culvers (their favorite place) for supper and came back home.

They love to hook up our old Wii and play Mario Cart and race Grandpa.  We did that and then watched an old Muppet movie!

Here's how it looked the next morning.  At least it quit snowing for a while.

The girls are always wondering what kind of craft we are doing. They were thinking about holidays coming up and thought maybe it was something about Valentines day, then maybe Martin Luther King day.  When I said not those things, they said it was too early for Easter.   I asked them what had been going on lately and they said "fires". I don't know what craft we would do about fires though!  I reminded them that in our area it's been snowing non-stop!  So, we made snowmen...

The snowmen were made out of clothespins.  Here's Ruby painting her clothespins white.

And here's Alaina working on hers.

We used toothpicks dipped in black paint to make eyes and mouth, then brushed on just a little pink for the cheeks.  More black dots were added for buttons, and we painted the ended of toothpicks orange, cut them off and glued them to make noses.
Acorn caps made cute little caps, and strips of ribbon were tied on to make scarfs.  

Here they are with their cute little snowmen.

We each made three of them.

Here's mine, tucked into a display on my table.

After lunch, we played a game of Wahoo. Did any of you play that when you were young?  This board was Bob's family board.  They loved it and said they want to play it again next time they come.
We sure have fun with them!