Weekend Craziness!

Friday I had a great art class.  We made crosses out of Plaster of Paris and everyone's turned out so uniquely different.  I loved it!  Here is just a sampling of some of them made.

 Then Friday night turned into a party.  The boys brought a friend home from school.  I told Doris that I would watch her son so she could go scrapbook.  So G. came over to play.  And since there were so many boys, Ashley invited her friend over.  I'd say 6 kids is a party!

I bought some ice cream and stuff to make sundaes.

Caleb went home just after dinner- but he said he didn't like ice cream anyway.

G. is grinning from ear to ear.  It sure does look yummy!

 Ashley just used a few sprinkles.

 Terrible picture but Aussie loaded up on chocolate.

 Mason's favorite part was the cool whip.

 And E. made her's an artistic masterpiece using everything but bananas since she is allergic to them.

It was getting pretty late.  Ashley always gets sick if she stays up too late.  So I sent her to bed.  I sent Aussie to bed to since he had Chinese in the morning.

So Mason, G. and E. stayed up a little longer.  That's when E. spotted a frog on my window.

"Can I get it?" she asked excitedly.

The other two got excited too.

So close to midnight they went outside to catch it.  E. got it and it jumped out of her hand so G. picked it up and put it in the jar.

 Cute little thing!  They kept it in that while they built a better habitat for it.

Here they are so proud of the little critter they caught:

 Of course E. told everyone it was poisonous because it had orange legs.  Doris told me it wasn't but E. was adamant so we just let her believe it.

 The next day Mason went to let it out of it's new home.

  Guess what?  It wasn't in there!  I so hope that it jumped out while they were trying to put the lid on it the night before and just didn't realize it. If it's in my house and I find it dead or alive- I'll Croak!

Well today is one of my favorite holidays! April Fool's Day.  I'm a prankster at heart.  I have been planning this prank ALL year long.

I emailed all my local friend's and none of them could help me.  I wanted a puppy, but couldn't find one. So I went with the next best thing.  Today, we had chorus practice at church.  So in Chorus I was asking if anyone had a dog I could borrow for an hour after practice for an April fool's joke.  I was lucky to find someone who let me use their dog.

Meet Scruffy...

He is a friendly little thing!  I called Greg from the road told him I was on my way home but had to stop at Walgreens first.  Then several minutes later I called him and told him that I couldn't believe it but someone just pulled up threw out a dog and just left.  Greg asked if I got the license plate number but I told him I was too stunned to look, but it was a white car with tinted windows.  Then I told him I was bringing him home.  Greg did not get good sleep last night so he was exhausted and surprised me with his answer.  He said, "OK we can put him in our fenced in backyard until we figure out what to do with him."  He doesn't really like dogs- hence the reason I was playing the joke on him in the first place.

On the way home I wondered if he thought I was kidding.  Maybe that was the reason he said, OK.  Then he would know for sure I wasn't kidding when the dog came in the house.

So I got home and Scruffy got out of the car and just went right in the house and said hello to everyone.  Greg was laying on the couch.  The kids loved on him some.  Greg said, "Put him out back before he gets fleas in the house."  That's when I knew I really got him!  I let the dog roam just a few more minutes hoping to build a little tension.  Then I said, "Guess what everyone?  APRIL FOOLS!"  Aussie said, I knew it had to be and April Fool's joke!  Greg gave me a nasty look, asked me who it belonged to and then said, "I'm going to bed!"  HEE HEE HEE!  I got him!

Then I drove Scruffy home.
Later Greg woke up and admitted he was glad to know it was an April Fool's joke because he didn't know what we were going to do with it.

But the jokes didn't stop there.  It was time for me to get the kids.  I put Orajel in the kids' toothpaste.  I tried really hard to mix it up.  Ashley was the first one up to brush her teeth.  She was very observant and said the toothpaste looked weird and she didn't want to use it.  She grabbed a different one and used it.  Then Aussie was next.  He wasn't as observant!  He used it.  He got a confused look on his face and went to rinse off his toothbrush.  I quickly said, "April Fools!  But shhhh....don't tell your brother and let's try to get him."  That's when he YELLED out, "MOM sabotaged the toothpaste!"  I giggled and giggled!  Then he took a cup of water while I was sitting on my bed and threw it at me.  It made me laugh!

Ashley wanted to prank someone so bad.  So she got a red marker and someone wrote "April Fools" on her bottom.  HER IDEA!  Not sayin' who did it as it might incriminate me.  Then she mooned her Daddy.  Too bad that's not something I could take pictures of!  It's been kind of fun around here to say the least.

Now it's 1AM- I don't have the dishes done or the school plan created.  Bah humbug!