Girls Camp Crafts and TMI

I've been meaning to post pictures of our girls camp crafts for awhile now (as in, since we got back in JUNE).  Better late than never, right?



This is a magnet board.  Mine turned out a little strange, but the rest were super cute!  Take a cookie sheet (make sure it's magnetic!), spray paint it (either all of it, or tape around the edges.  Both ways look good), and then add stickers.  Drill holes in the top and add some matching ribbon.  Finish it off with cute magnets and start leaving notes!













These button flowers were by far my favorite craft.  Use floral wire and choose some cute buttons.  I have plans to turn mine into hair clips for my kiddos, but haven't done it yet.

We stamped our own necklaces!  Our ward's camp director found a set of metal stamps and we stamped.  The part to remember is to use a sharpie inside the stamped letters/numbers, then immediately rub it off with a paper towel.  It helps the numbers/letters "pop".

The last one (that I took a picture of) was this pop tab bracelet.  It's not something I'll wear everyday (I'm definitely the wrong generation for that), but very cool to learn.










Now for the TMI - The OB says I'm dilated to a 1+!  I've never dilated before, so this is big news.  I've even been having contractions - which is a new thing to me, even though we're on our fourth.  We took a trip to the hospital, but came home an hour or so later.  The contractions weren't strong enough even though they were close together.  Since I was borderline gestational diabetes, if he doesn't come before Wednesday (Oct 3) I'm going to be induced.  So we're definitely having a baby THIS WEEK!!!  WAHOO!!!

Hot Air Balloon Festival

I love me some hot air balloons!  We recently had a festival and woke the kiddos up early to go see them off!  We weren't there as early as last year (thank goodness!  Last year we made it before most of the balloons!) and actually made it just in time to see the first balloon taking off!  There seemed to be something off, because quite a few of the balloons had a hard time getting out of the park without hitting the trees (the middle is all open field, but it's surrounded by trees!)!  The kiddos all got a helium filled balloon, which they loved!  "J" didn't like the sound of the fire inside the balloons and "A" wasn't so sure he wanted to touch one, but all of the kiddos had fun in the end!  Even more fun, was that after it was all over and we'd come home, we were finishing up breakfast and heard a hot air balloon!  We opened our front door and saw one flying over our neighbors' house, then it went and landed at the school next door to us!  We cleaned up breakfast and headed over to see it again!  DH was able to help pack it away!