Crayon snack for 4K:)

We made these cute edible crayon snacks for Athena's treat day at school. I got the idea from the Our Best Bites blog over on my favorites blogs list.
First you cut pretzel logs in half and dunk each end in colored white chocolate. The Wilton brand is called 'candy melts'.

I printed these sheets for the wrappers from that blog too.

Super fun:)

Mama mobile number 2! Lets try this again:)

Now that all of the dust has settled from my car accident we finally had the time to do some car shopping and buy a new mini van to replace the one that I totaled. I loved my old mini van. We bought it used with only 23K miles and got so many awesome options on it that we never would have spent the money to get on a new one. I would have happily drove it into it's ripe old age for the next 10 years. But, many things in life are out of our hands and sometimes you just need to take the hand dealt to you and move forward;) My new mini van is definitely awesome too:) I love the color (charcoal dark grey that shimmers in the sunlight and looks black at night with chrome trim) It is a brand new 2011 and I think we got a pretty decent deal on it because it's a model year end clearance car since the 2012 models are already on the lots. It also has some pretty neat/different features that my old one didn't have and after driving it for just one day, I love this one now too:) So, here is my second smokin' hot mama mobile after laying my first one to rest after just one year.

Here's Alton having fun coloring with crayons:) The fun of coloring lasted for about 1 minute!
After that he decided to pull an all-boy-Alton move and destroy the paper & throw it. I tell ya, after reading the book Gender Matters (a good read that I recommend to any parent) and raising both a boy and a girl there is no doubt in my mind that there are definitely innate personality differences in boys and girls that comes from their gender regardless of how they are raised/parented. This kid is a trip after raising only a girl so far:)

Ena's first day of 4K!

Athena had her first day of 4K today:) She was beyond excited this morning and let me tell you she is beyond tired tonight!! It's a district run 4K program, but it is physicaly housed in the private preschools in town because of space/room issues. We requested her current preschool/ daycare as her 4K location and got our request. I can still drop her (and Alton) off at 7:00 and pick her up at about 4:30/5:00 like usual. They simply walk her down the hall to the 4K room when the time comes and pick her up to walk her back when 4K is over. She is in the afternoon session which I think she will really benefit from because she recieves her regular preschool in the morning and then district 4K in the afternoon. Had she gotten the morning session, she would have district 4K in the morning, then return to preschool/daycare in the afternoon just in time to eat lunch and have a 2 hour nap. The way it is now, she gets twice as much school but no more nap. That's why she is so very tired tonight, but we'll slowly bump up her bedtime little by little each night to make up for it:) She said everything went great and came home very excited about her first day:)