After dinner Andy told the girls we had something really special planned for them. The girls were super excited. Let me interject here that when I first told Hayden we weren't going to the game she was bummed and in such a sweet tone (yeah right) said, "Well what are we going to do instead?" I told her we were going to sit around and stare at each other. This earned me an eye roll and a couple of hrumphs and arm crossing. Back to the story. So Andy has the girls sit on the couch, I sit next to them and he pulls up a chair in front of them. The girls are bouncing up and down with excitement and giggling. He says, "Okay, now everybody.....I want you to stare at the person next to you....(the girls did)....this is what we're doing tonight!" At the same time it hits both girls what he's just said and they yell, "This is all?" Oh it was extremely amusing. Of course it all led to some more eye rolling, arm crossing and hrumphing but it was soooo worth it!! I really don't think Andy and I have laughed that hard in quite some time. I guess some would say that was mean, but sometimes you just gotta remind them to laugh a little. They finally did laugh....honest.
Of course that wasn't all we had planned. We carved jack-o-lantern candles and jack-o-lanterns. The kids drew out the faces themselves, I cut off the top, they scooped out the guts and then I carved where they had drawn. We had the best time and we were warm and dry which would not have been the case had we gone to the game. Of course I was told by Hayden that "what we did was much more fun than sitting staring at each other". See, I told you she found it amusing.
Our Jack-o-Lanter candles. So easy to make! Unless of course you have a broken arm and can barely hold the toothpick!
