Duck pond

Today we had to run a bunch of errands and I told Ellie if she could be really good, we would stop at the duck pond on our way home. Of course she was on her best behavior, so we stopped and got Wendy's to eat for a picnic and then headed to the duck pond.

Ellie had so much fun. She wanted to take a baby duck home with us and I told her it would miss it's mom. She then told me that we could just take the baby duck and the mom duck mom.

And in awesome-money-saving news, on one of our errands, we meet with our insurance agent and switch our car insurance. We now have much better coverage than before, plus we will be paying 100 dollars less a month. Oooh yeah.

Paper book wreath.

We used old books as center pieces at our wedding, therefore we have a huge box of old books, now just sitting at our house. Mika keeps telling me I need to do something with them or get rid of them. All of the books are so old and full of character, I don't just want to throw them out. So now I have to come up with some projects and uses for them.

 Official center piece.

 Sign in table at our wedding.

So this is what I came up with:
My paper book wreath.

It was super easy, I should have made a tutorial, but I am not that cool.

Supplies:
One book
Foam wreath
About a yard of ribbon
Hot glue gun

1. Cut the book pages up into leaf shapes and fold/crease them in half.
2. Start glue them onto the foam wreath, layering them in a circle. I used a pencil to press each leaf down, so I didn't burn myself with the hot glue.
3. Just keep adding leafs, the more you add, the better it looks.
4. Hot glue some of the ribbon to the back, to make some form of a hook to hold it up.
5. Tie a bow and then stick it on the front somewhere.

Super easy & cheap.

Now I just need to come up with a few more things to do with the rest of the books.

(This project only took one book. Ha.)

Provo Beach Resort

 Friday night we decided to go to the Provo Beach Resort. 

 Ellie playing on the playground. Coolest play ground ever, it was huge!

Millie hanging out, eating her hands. 

 Merry-go-Round.

 Playing arcade games. 

Instead of having tokens, you use little debt cards at each game and then it loads your tickets onto the card, so you don't lose them. So cool.

 Playing skeet ball.

 Millie sleeping during all the fun.

 Mini bowling. It was the perfect way for Ellie to bowl. It was just her size.

Ellie with her Ariel balloon.

This place was seriously so much fun. There was so much to do and we didn't even do all of it. Me and Mika are hoping to go back soon without the girls and do all the adult stuff, we weren't able to do with the girls.

Ellie Quotes

Ellie: "Mom, what are you singing? Is that Justin Timberlake?"

Me: "What is your sister squeaking about?"
Ellie: "I took a drink of your drink and she squeaked and said, "hey that's mom's drink""!

Me: "Why are you and Avery fighting?"
Ellie: "Because Avery said this apple was an orange, but it's red!"

Me: "Who do you think Millie looks like?"
Ellie: "She looks like Rapunzel, bu she is just Mille."