Mermaid Sisters Always Have Your Back

Helluuu!  Well, I would say we've recovered from all of our car riding of last week, though I'd also say recovering took a toll on doing things... or at least on taking pictures.  But don't think that means nothing happened!  There definitely was a mermaid party!  I totally missed this, but it looks like the girls had a great time.

While on vacation with my family, Jerusha handed us our Christmas present a little early.  The plan was to use it there with everyone, however the fridge didn't have an ice maker, and so there were no snow cones until we got home!  Now it's snow cone party every day!!  Ok, not every day, just 3 times in the past week.  But let's not rule out tonight yet!  It is pretty loud to run, but it produces great ice shavings.  It feels just like snow.  In fact, if you come to visit, you'll never be safe from a snowball!  I think at some point we'll have to try shaved ice style deserts with fruit, evaporated milk, and maybe a little ice cream.

The girls were super excited!  I think they've only had snow cones once before, and that was last year.  It doesn't matter if they remember them though, they knew it was a treat, and so they were excited!

All of the flavors included are great!  There are even 6 more flavor concentrates for once these first ones are gone.  It's been a great gift!  Merry Christmas everyone!

Two weeks ago when the Checketts stayed with us for an evening, we put a blanket up in the window in the office to keep the sun out in the morning since we put the pack'n'play in that room.  That blanket was still down there, so I folded it up and left it on a box of secrets on my desk.  Jelly came to help guard the secrets, and slept there all day long while I was working!  She's a pretty great coworker.

On Wednesday night, Brooke somehow ended up staying up late.  Monica needed to make muffins for breakfast the next morning, so Brooke helped.  Monica helped with getting ingredients and mixing, but Brooke filled the whole muffin pan all by herself!  The muffins were terrific!

On Saturday night, I opened the box of secrets and pulled one out for date night.  It was Escape Room in a Box!  Since we can't go to an escape room right now (and even if one is open, I don't know that the best place to go is a small, confined room designed for everyone to touch EVERYTHING) I brought one to us.  So first things first we had to open the box!

And then unpack it!!  When we were done it was a total transformation of our dining/living room!  Now we were ready to try to escape!  We had a lot of fun.  I'd say the only downside is that it's pretty much a one time use item.  There is a pdf you can get online to reprint papers you wrote on, etc. and instructions to repack the box, but we're gonna have to leave that in our game closet for YEARS before we/I forget the puzzles.  Also, my understanding when I ordered this one is that it had 3 in it, but it doesn't really.  It has 3 "paths" to get to the end, and you have to do all of them.  So if you do separate paths then you could replay it and only do the paths you haven't seen before.  However, we did enjoy it enough that we'll probably get another box. Though I think next time I'll get one that does have multiple "rooms" in one box.

Look at all those great adventures we had this week!  Monica and I even evaded being eaten by a werewolf (escape room)!  I hope everyone is safe and has a wonderful week ahead!