A Fun Fun Friday!

Brandon had the most wonderfully sweet Valentine weekend. It began with a fun class party, filled with big buddies, heart cookies and lots of Valentine's! Here is Brandon and his big buddy Aaron.
Lots of love between these two!


On Saturday we met up with our friends the Lewis' and Debbie for a morning of painting ceramics at Color Me Mine. Brandon picked a cute little giraffe to paint, and boy did it look great when he was finished. We can't wait to pick it up in a few days!


That evening I was able to have the cousins over for a "Valentine cookie and Brownie Pop party." We made lots of goodies and ATE lots of goodies. ;)

What a great weekend for my little love bug Brandon. Love you B!

"butter" suckers anyone?

I wanted to make a special Valentine treat for all the cuties in Brandon's class, so I thought that homemade suckers would be a great idea. Well, my sister Angie (the queen of homemade suckers!) helped me to make these yummy little red numbers. For the first time we tried using real butter to grease the sucker "molds," not knowing that it would make the suckers taste like butter! Yikes! I didn't try one before hand and so as the kids were eating them in class I hear Brandon say, "Mom! This tastes like butter!" I was so embarrassed. All that hard work down the tubes. Oh well, next year I am BUYING suckers!

cupcake catastrophe

I made some chocolate cupcakes for one of the sweetest kindergarten friends in Brandon's class. I had them all ready to go on a pan in my car. Well, as I dropped off Brandon at Wendy's house that morning, Baxter their little white doggie, ran out of the house and into my car, and well needless to say this is how the cupcakes looked afterward. Yes, dog trampled cupcakes are always a hit, right?! To remmedy the problem, my wonderful sister went out and bought the yummiest donuts ever so that we would have something edible for our little birthday celebration. Thank you Wendy! I still owe you money! :) And I still love you Baxter!

"Making A Change" awards ceremony

The kindergarten students made a beautiful (and gigantic) poster/mural for the "Making A Change" contest. Well... they WON! A big perk of winning was that all of the kindergarten friends from Sumner-Danbury had the opportunity to attend the awards ceremony and sing their school song (which was what their winning poster was based on), and it was so precious. Here are Brandon and some of his friends at this fun evening.

Each kindergarten student was able to contribute to this masterpiece. My Brandon wrote the word "hand" on a section of the mural. What a beautiful job!