Kiss Me!

Elizabeth has begun showing an interest in cooking lately, especially baking, so we've made dinner together a few times this week.  Last night she helped me by coating the pork chops with Ritz crackers and Parmesan cheese then she made Peanut Butter Blossoms for dessert.

 

YUM!!

Valentine's Party

As most of you are aware, last Tuesday was Valentine's Day and in true elementary school fashion there was a sugar-laced party.  Also note that February was "I Love to Read" month and because the students reached their goal, they were allowed to dress in Hawaiian/Aloha clothes for the day as well.  I know, a Hawaiian Valentine's Day...I thought it was weird too.

 Elizabeth's version of Hawaiian garb :)

                   The card-catchers!  Here's Elizabeth's------>

A little crafty craft before the sugar coma.

Self-decorated sugar cookies with extra sugar on top!

Elizabeth's Valentine haul!

Above left: The principal, Mrs. Deis.                                                 Above right: parent volunteers.  

Above center: kids decorating cookies.

The kids all seemed to have a good time and before long the sugar started to kick in...

just in time to go home!

Knotty Animals

Last summer during one of our day trips we discovered these creatures along the main street of Red Lodge.  According to my one minute of research, these creatures were made from fallen Rocky Mountain Junipers gathered at the base of the Beartooth Mountain Range.

As you can see from the last photo, the name of the business is Rocky Fork Juniper.  After visiting their website, www.rockyforkjuniper.com, I discovered some of the other goodies that they make including furniture, mantels and this planter that I thought was neat...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. 

                                                                               -Virginia Woolf

Cheery

Elizabeth attended her first cheer leading game last Saturday.  I did my best with the photos but my camera uses two batteries per picture so this is the best I could do!  

The girls did really great despite several coaches calling in sick that day leaving the squads with substitutes who weren't quite prepared resulting in several looks of confusion and some misplaced poms.  Oh well...

And now...the videos!!