Living Life One Cheerio at a Time

We had a few snow days this week and this mom needed to come up with something quick! VALENTINES DAY BOXES!! The oldest and I scoured Pinterest for some designs for our boxes. If you know #1 she likes her themes/monochromatic/type a order in life so she thought since her cards were owls and she had an owl shirt {that she could wear on her party day}then her box should be an owl. All would be right on the world! Child 2 is a little more go with the flow so she was cool with sling hers an owl. But she made it her own...a little like her personality. Of course #1 hoards shoe boxes for this project so we had plenty of sizes to choose from.  A few paper bags from Kroger's and some scrounging  in my scrapping paper and we had our BEST boxes to date!

 So on Monday, I decided that it might be fun to make a yummy valentine's treat with the kids.  I thought how fun would those cake pops thingys be...hmmm...I have yellow cake, pink frosting, and lots of sprinkles.  The only thing I didn't have is the sucker sticks but we would do without. I read the directions...and no where in them did it mention: THIS IS GOING TO BE THE MESSIEST SNACK/CRAFT YOU'VE EVER DONE~BE PREPARED!" So pooh bear and I began by baking a cake early in the morning to allow plenty of cooling time. We then broke up the cake into itty bitty just clean my floor pieces and added a can of prepared strawberry frosting.  She and I rolled into balls and put them into the fridge for proper cooling. AND CLEANED UP THE MESSIEST CAKE/FROSTING CONCOCTION! Then I melted some chocolate chips {I thought strawberries and chocolate was a good combination} and set out some sprinkles. and then came the real messy part. I dipped and let the kids  sprinkl...