CTR pretzels

CTR stands for choose the right. It is a cute way for the kids in our church to think about choosing the right every day. Elsie gets a magazine for kids that our church publishes and they had a recipe for CTR pretzels in it. Really they are just bread sticks but we called them pretzels. Though I looked at a pretzel recipe and found if I dipped them in water with baking soda in it before cooking they tasted a lot more like pretzels. I want to try the actual pretzel recipe sometime and see if we can make real soft pretzels! Just the same we had a great time making the dough, kneading it, punching it down, shaping the pretzels and buttering them after they came out of the oven. Oh and eating them, Yum! 

Cute stuff!

Fun in the snow

We had a fun time making this snowman a month or so ago. Elsie wanted it to have hair and so we used some dried leaves.

Valentines Day

We had a fun Valentines Day this year. Two out of the three of us had treasure hunts. Elsie and I quickly put one together for Will and Will and I did one for Elsie. I just got to play hot cold to find my gift...but it was a great gift!!! Since Will had just gotten home from work we let him go first. Then I went because Will was so excited to have me know the big surprise. Elsie was so good and waited and did her hunt last. She did such a great job! She thought about the clues and ran as fast as she could between them to find them. Often giggling with delight...I think she liked it.

The exciting news I received in the nice binder Will put together is a trip. The air plain tickets are bought and we have the hotel reservations! We are going to Rome!!! Just Will and I no kiddo. We are excited but a little nervous too. It has been almost 10 years since we have traveled internationally...but I am sure not much has changed. Mostly I am scared to leave Elsie. I am sure she will be fine but I might not!!! We have left her for a night or two but a whole week is going to be harder. At least I have some time to get ready we are not going until November. 

A fun Museum

Back at he beginning of February we went to a fun museum with friends. They had lots of things there but I only took pictures by the dinosaurs. The kids are trying to look like dinosaurs in the first picture and they are sitting in a giant dinosaur footprint in the bottom photo. It was fun we ended up being late for preschool is was so hard to get Elsie to leave.

Weekend fun

Will has recently decided we should do fun stuff on the weekends. It probably has something to do with football season ending and golf season not yet beginning! But I guess we will take what we get right. It has been fun going to the aquarium, the zoo, and a movie or two. I am guessing that once golf season begins this will all come to an end.