Monday, January 29

Crayons, Cookies, and the Pinewood Derby

My sister-in-law is a very creative person. On Saturday I discovered that her children have never taken store bought Valentines to school. And Jill decided that, this year, Lucas would take heart shaped crayons to give his friends. And she would make them. That's right...move over Martha Stewart!! We spent part of the afternoon unwrapping crayons, cutting/breaking them up into small pieces, and filling heart-shaped tins with the pieces.



Then she baked them and Voila...



...cheap, easy, and very cool!! The even cooler thing was that after we made the crayons I used the rest of the dark chocolate and pecans from Christmas and made heart-shaped chocolates! Yes...me. The next project was making heart-shaped cutout cookies. I even got to put sprinkles on two cookies!!



Sunday was Tyler's Pinewood Derby. His grandpa Craig helped him make his car since Dan is in the Middle East...and they ended up with a pretty good looking car. Tyler didn't place but he got a ribbon and some stuff for participating and he got interviewed by the newspaper. He was pretty excited about that.



As always here are more pics and even a video of one of the heats where Tyler placed 2nd...

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