Project Life Tuesday: Week 43 continued

I am linking up with The Mom Creative- Project Life Tuesday.  As usual I am linking up on Wednesday. 

We had a busy week 43 and on Oct 26th we attended a special themed geocaching event - GeoZombie Run.  It was held in Lynden, Wa.  We had a blast finding geocaches and doing various zombie related tasks. We even had a zombie hunting permit.

On the 27th, we finished finding some of the GeoZombie geocaches especially the one called, Head to the Hills. In the last cache was an unusual trinket. Some of the journaling below:
It was a super creepy doll.  The doll actually said, " You dropped me and I broke. That made me very angry." I can honestly say that is the MOST UNUSUAL thing we have ever found in a cache.

Supplies
Project Life Cobalt Edition
Photo Protector Design G

Dollar Store Snowflake Clothespin Ornaments

Sometimes a idea overtakes me.  I saw a clothespin snowflake on pinterest. Pinerest is kinda craft crack.  I also have a thing about snowflakes.  Last year, I made GIANT Popsicle Stick Snowflakes. But when I saw the clothespin snowflakes, I said I could do that.  This is the result.

 

 

 

My youngest also got in the act.  This is a great project for kids who can use glue guns. Charlie added a lot of washers and nuts from his dad's stash of hardware.  All of it is glue gunned on.  Charlie's have a lot of bling.

Materials
Clothespins- dollar store
small clothespins - JoAnn's
Washer set - dollar store
glue
gluesticks
glue gun
various findings - buttons, doodads, shiney bits

Honoring Our Veterans

My youngest son, Charlie, got a chance to go with his class and several other classes to the cemetery to participate in a Veteran's Program.  Charlie played Amazing Grace on the recorder.  It was a really nice program. 

The American Legion Honor Guard was there as well. 

Project Life Tuesday - Weeks 41,42, and 43

Well, I am once again posting Project Life Tuesday on Wednesday.  I am linking up with The Mom Creative.

The weeks 41 and 42 were really slow around our house.  I have older kids and it was pretty much life as usual.  So I decided to combine these two weeks.  The overall theme was DONUTS.

My son, I quoted as wondering out loud if chocolate donuts are a performance enhancing drug.

Week 43 was a busy week.  We finished up a REALLY big geocache challenge and we also got to enjoy the fall color. I made some leaf rubbings and use them as part of my date page. In the picture of all of us together, we are holding arrow sticky notes that have the name of every Washington State Park we visited - all 53.  This picture was taken on Camano Island.

Supplies Used
Photoshop Elements
Project Life: Cobalt Edition - Journal Cards
Photo Protector Design G

Squirrel Moment # 1004

Oh I am a magnet for this kind of sighting according to Mrs Epi. 

Yes that is a giant fish on top of a car. I guess the car is actually a advertisement for prop 522.  Usually when I see these kinds of displays, I think "kook" not vote for something.  So, they might want to rethink how they spend their money.

Head for the Hills

Last Sunday, we headed for the hills outside of Everson, Washington .  We headed on South Pass Road to Paradise Valley Road.  We didn't do this series of geocaches during the GeoZombie Run.  It was really a beautiful  drive. It also a great road to test your shocks on. OH it tested my internal shocks as well. 

Charlie at a guardrail cache



I love it when the cache is SO OBVIOUS!

The fog was rolling in.  I love the ghost trees in the background behind Charlie in the picture below.

When we reached the last cache in the series way a top the hill. This is what we found.

It was a super creepy the doll.  The doll actually said, " You dropped me and I broke. That made me very angry." I can honestly say that is the MOST UNUSUAL thing we have ever found in a cache.

I can't resist a good fungi photo.  These scaly mushrooms on this tree caught our eye.

Out of the Bushes- Halloween 2013

Charlie the Werewolf
Halloween 2013

Well, I only had one child dress up for Halloween.  The 15 year old wasn't into it. My  11 year old really wanted to jump out of the bushes at trick or treaters. Our house is a little bit off the beaten track so we don't get huge hordes of kids. He did manage to barely scare two girls. Who then wouldn't come up to the house to get some candy until I came out.  I think they were thinking , "Weirdo." This however made his Halloween.  Charlie also went trick or treating to a few neighborhood houses.  We took Tigger, the dog, who was quite exhausted by the whole experience.

***edited to Link Up to The Mom Creative Halloween Costume Link Up