Creative Juices

For the last day of our Spring Break, I took the kids over to Scottsdale to visit Lala at work.  Lala is a manager at a super fun place called Make Meaning, where you can make all sorts of fun things.  Soap, jewelry, candles, ceramics, cakes...it really is a fun place to spend a day.  It had been awhile since we had been there, so we made an afternoon of it!

The boys were spoiled rotten.  They started off making soap.  I think in all, we came home with 6 different soaps; all full of fun little trinkets and toys for the boys to keep once they use up all their soap.

We finally made Jessalyn's "Baby's 1st Christmas Ornament" while we were there (with her little footprints on it).  It's been on our to-do list since the beginning of December, but since our Christmas season kind of got derailed, the ornament was one of the many things that got put on the back burner.  But.  It's now finished and I love it, so that's all that matters, right?

After the boys finished with their soaps, and after an unplanned visit to the cute little candy shop across the courtyard, the boys moved on to make a cake.  They got to spray "paint" their base fondant...

And then decorated it with a lovely assortment of treasures.  Kehlton's side of the cake was Easter themed, and Brychan's side was all dinosaurs.

It was a fun afternoon!  Daddy had a scout campout that night, so we grabbed some dinner and a movie, ate the boys' yummy cake and had a slumber party in the family room (where Mommy was reminded that sleeping on the floor is way more fun when you're 3 and 5).