Districts

This week was Rylee's last cross-country meet of the season... districts. All the Meridian Middle Schools met at a local park for the race.
There were 100's of people there!









Rylee came in around 60th out of 250 girls.








Blayke is a member of one of the opposing teams.
A very friendly rival. :)

Way to go girls!

I'm quite impressed and very proud of you.

C is for Cat

C is for Cat!

The girls made cat masks.




We attempted to make candy corn bracelets.


I had seen some where that you could make bracelets using jellybeans. I thought that a candy corn bracelet would be fun. Wrong! When they would push the needle through the candy corn, it would break 7 out of 10 times. Finally, when one of the girls poked her finger hard enough to make her cry, we stopped and moved on to the next activity.

We read, "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" and then frosted cupcakes and decorated with sprinkles.

Each girl also got to take home a cat puppet

C is for Cookie

C is for cookie... that's good enough for me!

This week pre-school was at our house. We talked about the letter C , Cookie Monster, Chocolate Chip Cookies and read, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie".

I'm not sure why Abree likes to pose like this.

Andi was careful to get the paint on her project, rather than on her. She was the cleanest of us all.

Skylar thinks cookie dough is yummy!

Emylie ended up Cookie Monster blue.

We shaped our cookie dough into the letter C. After baking they looked more like blobs than C's.
They still tasted good though.

These girls are becoming very smart little cookies!

Pun totally intended.

The Fancy Party!

As guests were arriving, everyone decorated their glasses and made them fancy.

After their glasses were fancy, I read them some "Fancy Nancy" books.

Then they colored and decorated a "Fancy Nancy" picture.

My fancy helpers; Taylee, Rylee & Blayke.

They helped with fingernail painting, party music, and serving food. It was nice to have a few extra fancy hands to keep the party going.

Emylie demonstrates how to eat a sandwich the fancy way (with the pinky finger up, of course).

Yum!

Cat's version of fancy eating.

Fancy friends; Emylie, Andi, Abree, Cat, Audrey & Allie.

Next we painted fingernails, a must at a fancy party.

So fancy and pretty.

Abree was showered with many fancy gifts; Littlest Petshop, art supplies, lip gloss and tiny dolls.

Instead of candles, we had a fancy "5" sparkler. The girls weren't too sure about lighting a sparkler inside. They went through a range of emotions in the few seconds it took to sparkle all the way through; fear, amusement, happy and finally pure excitement. They were jumping up and down, whooping and yelling. Audrey didn't like the noise and weird candle at all. She finally shouted, "Hurry, blow it out!!!" And then it was over.

A fancy pretend tea party broke out, as the girls waited for their parents.

So cute, so fancy.

Happy Birthday fancy Abree!

Are you about fancied out? I think I may be.

Decor & Food

Here's all the "fancy" stuff we did to get ready for Abree's Fancy Nancy party...

Fancy flowers

These were so cute and so fun to decorate with. They are made by accordion folding tissue paper, securing with a wire and then a lot of careful fluffing.

The fancy table settings
The fancy front door
"Bonjour", because Fancy Nancy loves French (everything sounds fancy in French).

Fancy necklaces, boas, bracelets and hats strung about.

The fancy books that inspired the whole theme.

The fancy hat cake

(I'm not super proud of my cake, but with all the other fancy stuff around it, it looks ok.)

The fancy accessories that each guest was given to wear.

The fancy favor bag

"Merci!"

An eraser cell phone, candy ring, a princess Lip Smackers, stickers, necklace, candy bracelet (not shown) and bubble ring.

Abree's "Fancy Nancy" party dress and tiara. (Just like the one she wore in the book.) :)

Non-fancy glasses that the girls made fancy by decorating with sparkly stickers.

A Fancy Nancy picture the girls colored and decorated.

The fancy food

Finger sandwiches (with Fancy toothpicks), grapes, strawberry parfaits and pink lemonade.

We're ready.

Let's Par-tay!!!

Invite

If you invite them. . .
they will come!
(Especially if you're serving lunch and everyone comes in their fanciest attire. That's a fancy word for clothing.)
Abree and I decided to do a "Fancy Nancy" party for her 5th birthday. She helped me get the invitations ready and delivered them to her friends.

"Fancy Nancy" by Jane O'Connor, is a really fun book series. Nancy believes that more is ALWAYS better. She loves dressing up and being fancy. Her family is quite plain, she tries her best to teach them to be fancy and LOVES using fancy words like; fuchsia, plume, stupendous, accessories, chauffeur, parfait or anything French... because everything sounds fancy in French.

If you have a girly-girl in your life, and you haven't read these books, you best be checking these out from your local library. They are so much fun!