Cooking Diasters

Abbie made some Ramen Noodles for her and the other kids.  She let the noodles cook too long and the water evaporated out of the pan.  The noodles were big and slimy.  She dished up the noodles for all the kids who wanted them.  I over heard the conversation.  They all decided the noodles were digusting even Abbie agreed.  Lyndie however, kept eating them.  Cole explained the reason for this was because she did not have taste buds yet and we do.   Corey took one look at his noodles and said,"Oooooh, gross these don't even have any broth in them that means they don't have any favor."   Cole said, "Oh, they have plenty of flavor they just don't taste good."  Abbie cooks Ramen Noodles almost as bad as I cook grilled cheese sandwiches.  Jason doesn't believe I know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich without burning it.  I made some pancakes the other day that were really dark on one side and perfect on the other.  Tyler said "Mom were you thinking you were making your grilled cheese sandwiches or something."

CRASH!

Jared fell asleep in our computer chair the other day this is how I found him.

Wrestling in Cokeville

We took the boys to Cokeville for a little league wrestling tournament yesterday.(March 12, 2009)

This was their second tournament and for some dumb reason Cokeville did not have a 7th-8th grade division so Tyler  did not get to wrestle this time.  He was a little bummed but he made a great assistant coach for the littler boys.

Cole and Jared did some serious flexing to scare the opponents

(I know real scary Huh!) 

MUSCLE POWER!

ABBIE 

Abbie was the cheerleader and helper with Lyndie.

LYNDIE AND DAD

Lyndie got sick of the wrestling  quick and was not the most happy spectator.

Corey

These two pictures of Corey are of his last match.  I did not get to see the Other matches they split the preschool-2nd grade from the 3rd-6th grade so Ty and I went to help Cole and Jared. Corey won this match by a pin.

Corey wrestled Daine Waldron a second time this year at this tournament.  Daine is also from Star Valley and from a big time wrestling family.  His Dad coached in Juab and is the coach for our Junior High currently.  Corey and Daine went into over time (sudden death) in their match here and Daine beat Corey by two points.  It was intense they are both good competitors. Tyler Wrestled Daine's older brother Gabe last weekend in Evanston and barely lost as well it was also a great match.  Our boys are learning lots and having fun.  We feel fortunate to have the waldron's here to challenge our boys.  

COLE

Cole Wrestled Preston (I don't remember his last name) for a second time as well.  They wrestled each other in Evanston last week.  I went to school with Preston's mom, Angela,  it was fun to see her.   She and her husband live in Hennefer with their 3 boys and 1 girl.

Cole is a scrappy little wrestler and does a great job.

Cole lost this match. This kid was quick and one year older than Cole.  Cole fought hard and did awesome.

COACHING FROM DAD

Jason did pretty darn good coaching the boys these past few weeks after going from the High School to little league.  It is not easy for him to tone it down with the littler guys, I was proud

of him though he is fun to watch. (As you can see Lyndie is not super happy here either she was done with it all.)                 

JARED

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This is how Jared looked  through most of his matches (on bottom with a great big smile on his face).  He was just happy to be there and wrestling like his big brothers. 

Jared assumed this position under the score table while watching cole's match.

Jared got this pin for wrestling and had to show it off to every one.

International Day at Girl Scouts

Abbie's girl scout troop had an international day and each troop learned about different countries and presented the information to the rest of the girls.  Abbie's group learned about Japan.  Abbie has some awesome leaders that really go all out.  I think she has really enjoyed girl scouts.  It has been a great experience for her.

 

They made hair things out of chopsticks 

Their drums are made from I think oatmeal cans and they used chopsticks for the drumsticks.

They made these fans and their leaders taught them some painting techniques.  These are the fans Abbie did.                                                                 

These are the shoes their leaders made them.

Abbie the little Giesha Girl.

Mom and Abbie.  Abbie's leader painted this board.  The girls all took pictures with their Moms. (Lots of fun.)

The other troops did presentations on greenland, Holland, Australia, and the Philippines.

Recipe for GAK

Here's what  you need :

    2 cups white elmer's glue

    4 teaspoons borax (you can find this in the

       laundry detergent section of wal-mart It's in a green box.)

     1 1/3 cups warm water

Here's what you do:

1.  In a large bowl combine glue and 2 1/2 cups water

2.  In a separate bowl combine Borax and 1 1/3 cups water

3.  Add Borax water to glue water and mix.

Here is the trick when you put the two mixtures together just keep mixing and kneading it.  It doesn't look right at first, it is very runny but just keep mixing it and over time it will form a big ball of slimy dough.  I threw the first batch I ever made  away because it didn't look right.  I just needed to keep kneading it in the bowl and it would have worked. ( chalk it up for experience .)

                      GAK!

 

This is the favorite in our house.  Slimy play dough.

Made from Elmer's glue, water, borax and food coloring

for color.  It is hours and hours of fun.  It lasts about 3 months 

if you store it in Ziploc bags.

The kids love to squish this stuff in cups it makes a farting 

noise that makes them laugh so hard.  (Boy what they won't 

think of next!)