Totally Gross Party...

Owen turned 8 on Thursday.

Today we had his "Totally Gross Birthday Party".

And it was….totally gross.

They grabbed gummy worms at the bottom of whip cream…using only their mouth:

Morgan actually won this one.

Who doesn't want to shove their face into whip cream?

They pulled body parts out of "brains".

They grabbed marbles out of ice water with their toes.

They smelled baby food in diapers.

They ate baby food too. (well, some of them did)

They searched for cockroaches in "barf". (this one made me want to barf)

They had a grand old time.

And then we had cake….

 A TOTALLY GROSS cake.

It makes me nauseous just looking at it, even though I know it's made of yummy things.

Making a wish.

I gave everyone matching T-shirts that said, "That was TOTALLY GROSS!" on them.

Crazy kids. :)

And then it was over and I realized once again….

This boy is growing up.

Oh how I love him. :)

The Case of the Broken Violin...

Everyone loves a good mystery right.

Especially at our house.

My kids love to sleuth things out.

So a few days ago Olivia opened her violin and I heard a scream from the other room.

I thought she might have broken her leg or something.

Instead she had opened her case to find her violin looking like this:

Since we had just been gone on Fall Break for a week it seemed very strange that it just broke sitting in it's case.

The kids started sleuthing right away. (okay, and me too!)

Immediately they thought of Crew and Dane…3 houses away. Boys who love to be destructive.

Olivia was certain it was one of them.

Shane told her several times he didn't think that was possible because Crew wouldn't really be capable of zipping the case back up after breaking it and Dane just probably wouldn't.

We continued to think of possibilities and then Morgan, in her very sure way, told us all what had really happened.

"It was Jersey"…the dog.

"How do you know?"

"Because I looked her in the eyes and she looked back at me with sad eyes….and then she licked me four times."

Well, I don't think there's ever been a more clear-cut case.

It was the dog!