Super Silly Saturday Supper

So now that the Summer has come to an end, I wanted to tell you about some of the fun things we did this Summer. All over pinterest there are a ton a pictures of Summer Bucket Lists. We decided to make one for our family. We went camping, made sock puppets, did Ryan's Eagle Project (I will post that at another time), Mick Movies, made a Lemonaide stand (again will post on this later), run through the sprinklers, have late night with cousins, go to Lagoon, and Super Silly Saturday Supper.

Super Silly Saturday Supper is where we all dressed up in different, off the wall, get ups and went out to dinner. We had coupons for America Burger here in Tooele and decided to so this at the beginning of August. Dad wore a knight in shining armor with a black plastic vest and a green leprechaun hat. I wore a Rapunzel wig, Minnie Mouse ears, a skirt, and a blue cape.

Ryan wore a loin cloth, hooded cape, leather vest, and a Indiana Jones hat.

Kiersten wore silver pant suit, a Raggedy Ann sock, high heels, Tutu, an "avaiable" tie, and green hair.

Emalee wore a princess dress, a apron, a scarf, a princess cape and cat mask.

Donnovan wore monkey legs, a pink leotard, green apron, tool belt, Raggety Ann hat and a viking hat.

Needless to say we all looked silly. Soo silly in fact that one of the employees wanted to take our picture with her phone. We were honored to oblige. After dinner we had to go to Macey's for ice cream and add to the fun. We got a lot of compliments. We will do this again next year. Hopefully then we will actually get everything on our bucket list done.

Scarecrow's

I am soo excited that it is finally fall!! It is my all time favorite time of the year. I am tired of the 90 degree heat and have really enjoyed the cooler weather. We had Young Women's a few weeks ago and I was in charge of the activity. Years ago in Moab ( we're talking about 10 years ago) I was a craft leader for 4H. I loved doing it and was sad to have to stop doing it up here in Tooele. One of our projects years ago was making these cute little scarecrows. I had about 13 left over and have been storing them for all these years. Finally I had a excuse to use them.

 Here is the list of supplies that you need if you want to make these. a small pot, green foam, small dowel, raffia, foam pumpkin, burlap, moss, pinecones, peice of string and leaves to decorate with. You will also need your handy dandy hot glue gun.

 First of all I cut my green foam so it would fit into the pot. I just used a butter knife and then hot glued it to the bottom of the pot. Make sure you put the hot glue on the pot first and not the foam or it will melt. Learned that one the hard way.

 Then I cut a hole in the foam pumpkin and inserted the dowel and glued it in. I got the pumkins at Walmart on clearance last year. They came eight in a box so it was super cheap, plus I bought them when they went to 50 cents a box.

 I then cut a retangle peice of burlap. It doesn't have to be perfect. I then folded it in half and made a tiny cut in the middle of the fold and pushed the dowel through it.

 I then hot glued it to the top of the pumpkin. I then took a handful of raffia and tied them in the middle with a peice of wire. Then tired the wire to the dowel and hot glued it in place.

 Once that was done I put glue on the wood and stuck it into the foam.

 I then hot glued the moss to the top of the foam covering it and decorated it using small pumpkins, pinecones, and fall leaves.

We used a sharpie to draw a face on our scarecrow and a small peice of string to tie the burlap around the dowel. And there you have it! Super easy scarecrows! The one in the left I made, middle Emalee made and the right Kiersten made.