Kelsie's Scooby Doo Birthday Party

For Kelsie 7th birthday party, she wanted to have a Scooby Doo birthday party, which was great because she already had her Velma costume from Halloween. Her birthday was after school had gotten out for the summer. So we passed the invites out on the last day. Two weeks later we had the party, she was hoping for a big turn out but I had a feeling that no one was going to come. Only one family had RSVP. But we were grateful they came. She had this one friend in her class, named Keith, that was her best friend, she was counting on him coming. She waited by the window and said that Keith is coming he would not miss my party he said he would come. It just broke my heart when he did not show. But we started the party once I cheered her up.  

 To start the party we made necklaces for the girls and magnets for the boys.

 Here are all the party people, making their crafts.

 After they were done making their crafts, we went outside to played pin the tag on Scooby. After everyone had gone and even some twice, I asked the kids if they wanted cupcakes. They wanted them, but one kid was confused on why we were having them so soon into the party. I told them to sit down and I will be right out with them. I went inside for the cupcakes, but came out with a note. I told them that the cupcakes were gone and this note was left in their place. 

I handed it to the birthday girl to read out loud, this is what it said;

Birthday Gang you have a mystery to solve.

 I know you can do it if you all get involved.

I'm the Birthday Ghost and I have your

 cupcakes. If you want one too, here is your

 first clue listen carefully so you'll know what to do.

Clue #1: Find the place of paint and figure out what to do.

 Once you are finished you'll have clue #2. 

-The Birthday Ghost

 After they read the clue, they went on hunt for the paint. 

They found it in the garage.

 I wrote with glue on  poster board a message. 

 In order to read the message they used markers to reveal the clue.

Clue #2  Find a ghost that is for play. 

Spill his guts and he will show the way.

 The kids hunted around the yard till they found a ghost pinata. Funny story about this pinata: A week before the party I tried making a homemade pinata like my mom used to do with newspaper, flour and water. Well with it not being so warm here it was taking a lot longer to dry and then when we went to put the candy in, it could not bear the weight and broke. So I had Kyle run to the store and grab any pinata that we could throw a sheet over and call a ghost, it was cute because he came home with a cowboy pinata and it worked perfect. 

 Kelsie was the first to take and whack at it and , it feel of the string, the body part did. But the hat of the cowboy was still there (above picture). So we let the kids take whack at it. They had fun, and then we broke into the body where the candy was,

 Inside the ghost I had put tootsie pops with tissue over them to look like ghost and had a clue tied to them. With lots of other candy. This is was the clue said:

  Clue#3 Find some ghostly creatures that look like a treat.

 Using a ring toss one to get one to eat. But be aware

 of what you are doing, hiding somewhere within will

 be your next clue.

 The kids the search for those ghostly treats and did a ring toss.

 Inside one of the ghost I hid the clue.

 Jaron found it and read it to the group as they all enjoyed their treats.

 It said:

Clue #4 You are on you own from here on out.

Keep your head down and you'll figure it  out.

Run and search for your last clue once you see

it you'll know what to do.

 As they looked down there were footprints that I had cut out,

 that led them to the kitchen where there stood a ghost eating a cupcake.

 They took the sheet off to find out that it was just Kelsie's dad who taken the cupcakes. When the took the sheet off Kyle said the classic line, "I would of gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you mendling kids". All they kids got kick out of it.

After all the crime solving we were able to sit down and sing

 Happy Birthday to Velma, I mean Kelsie.

 Here is a close up of the cake creation. I wanted to put scooby snacks on the cupcakes. But they don;t carry them here at our Safeway. So I made some of my own doggy bones, out of gingerbread cookies. The kids really thought that they were real doggie treats.

 Then we open gifts.

 After the party was over I took all the helium balloons and tied them together and gave them to Kelsie. She was excited and nervous to hold them because she thought she would float away. But soon realized that she wouldn't and had a blast with them.

Kenai Peninsula Air Fair

Even though it is a small town that we live in, their is still a airport here. Well every town in Alaska has some kind of airport in it. But the one here has a fun little air fair every year. 

 So the kids and I headed over to it to check it out.

We got to look at them on the outside and the inside.

 Checked out the big planes, little planes

 New planes and old planes

 Here the kids are doing the reenactment of a movie that they saw, just can't remember which one they said at the time.

It was a fun day, but it was really cold.

 The was blowing and we didn't bring our winter coats,
 even if it was June 9th.

Summer Camps

Second week into summer break. Kallie and Jaron head off to camp.

 Kallie gets to go to her first year of girls camp. This picture was taken right as she was leaving to go to camp.She had a great week at camp. The sweatshirt that she is wearing is her camp sweatshirt that she made. Kyle was able to go up for two days to be a camp dad. And they both enjoyed it, they were able to enjoy the hike together.

 Jaron was picked to be in a week long golf camp, called "Hook a Kid on Golf". They gave him a set of clubs, balls, hat & shirt, and a week long being taught by professional golfers. He loved it.

 After the week long camp, on the last day the had family BBQ. The girls and I loved it.

Here are the golf camper and their instructors.

Jaron is the first one in the front row on left.

After having such a fun time the first week at golf camp.

 He signed up to take another week of golf camp with his good friend Colton.

Changing Places

After saying goodbye to Alycia and Lulu, we needed to get Kallie ready to send off to her first year of girls camp and pack up our belongings and move to a new house. The house we have been living in, so awesome as it is, is a summer rental. Meaning that they rent it out in the summer to those that want to pay major bucks to stay in this great place. So we had to find another place to live. We looked high and low for one in the ward that we were already in and one that was furnished, since all we had with us was clothes and our cars. But no such like in both of those areas. Bonus though we found on in town, and in the other ward-but it is a great ward too.

So I packed up all our clothes in laundry baskets, we are just moving 15 minutes from where we are now.

Then I scrubbed and cleaned, scrubbed and cleaned.

 In hopes that we could get our deposit back. 

And we did. Yeah!

 The last morning we were at the house, we had one more smores roast before we left.That was one of the most fun things to have at the house. We loved making smores and eating them too!

 After everything was packed up, we said goodbye to our winter retreat...

And moved into our new home.

All our stuff in the front room. Little by little we have been getting furniture for the house. Luckily a lot people move out of the state. So there are a lot of garage sales that we have been hitting up.

 Before we moved in I bought a vacuum and since we had so much open floor space, the kids enjoyed vacuuming.

 Goggles and all.

Where Did That Season Go?

Fall in Alaska

The last time I update my blog was about the end of May.

 A whole summer has past us by, and fall is half way through.

We had a great summer.

Did a lot of stuff. 

One of these days I will really update my blog all about it.

Soon... I hope.