Spring has sprung!

Saturday morning, Jay and I got up and started on our traditional Saturday morning pancakes. Each week we strive to make our pancakes funny shapes. We have done snowmen, Mickey Mouse, the girls' initials, and this time we really went over the edge! We added food coloring and formed spring flowers for the girls!
Each week we also always include our favorite chocolate chocolate chunk pancakes too! The flower pancakes were a HUGE hit and tasted wonderful! Aren't they the cutest?

We had to get out and go grocery shopping and then headed out to lunch for a yummy meal. We finished off our meal with our favorite outdoor dessert...Dippin' Dots! We LOVE these and as soon as the weather is nice...we head out to get them!

Look at that groovy girl! Those are some rockin' sunglasses!

Once we came home from our errands, we decided it was a great day to fly a kite! We headed out to our large outdoor play area and worked on getting that kite up in the air. Dad explains the proper kite technique.

Look how high that Strawberry Shortcake kite was able to fly! What a beautiful clear day! We just LOVE spring.

Anli's ready for the toss up! I can't believe my girl is about to be 10...mercy!

Virginia and I work on keeping the kite in the air together. The wind would come and go...and then change directions on us! We sure got some exercise running and working to keep it in the air...but it sure was fun!

Now, some people comment that we are creative people. Actually many of our ideas come from Family Fun magazine (like the spring cake we did on Friday) and this activity was one of their ideas. We bough tempera paint and mixed it with cornstarch and dish detergent. Then, we taped off the windows and let the girls make their own stained glass!

We all helped out and it comes off with a scrape of a plastic spatula and a little wash of warm water! It was so cheap and made for a wonderful spring day activity! We plan on keeping this all spring...to brighten up the playroom.

This was the finished stained glass! Anli did the one on the left and Virginia on the right. They did amazing work and it is truly so bright and cheerful in their playroom now! The sun is able to come through and it also looks great from the outside too.

This is an easy and fun activity that cost nearly nothing ($8 for everything!) and gave us hours of fun. The kids did the mixing of the paints and even worked to make other colors out of the primary ones, and they began their masterpieces.

I am thankful everyday that God has given us such a precious family. We have such a blast!