Hap"peep" easter!

As another Easter Holiday successfully comes it a close one ponders why the yellow sugar coated marshmallow confection known as peeps are so popular and where did they begin.

Here are some fun facts:

How many…

• The amount of PEEPS® chicks and bunnies eaten at Easter could more than circle Earth’s circumference. That’s a lot of marshmallow!

• The number of PEEPS® chicks, bunnies and other shapes made each day could make a path from the factory door in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the state of Maryland.

• The machines at the Just Born Factory can add 3800 PEEPS® eyes per minute!




How tall, how far…

• It would take approximately 172 MILLION PEEPS® bunnies end-to-end to circle the moon!

• Over 70 million PEEPS® chicks lined up beak-to-tail are needed to reach from New York City to Los Angeles.

• If you had 8000 PEEPS® bunnies, and you stood them in a straight vertical line, you could reach the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago




How popular…

• Loyal PEEPS® fans LOVE their PEEPS®… fresh, stale, frozen and even on pizza!

• There are over 200 unofficial PEEPS® web sites!

• PEEPS® are so popular, they have been the best selling non-chocolate Easter candy for the last decade.

• PEEPS® have become gourmet favorites as fondues, crème brule ingredients and cappuccino toppings!

Tell me more…

• In the early 1950’s, it took 27 HOURS to make one PEEPS® chick. Today it takes six minutes!

• PEEPS® chicks and bunnies come in 5 colors. Yellow chicks are the most popular, followed by pink, lavender, blue, and white.

• Each PEEPS® chick has 32 calories and 0 grams of fat.


The Washington post holds an annual Diorama Contest and this year there were 800 entires and according to their website it was A 22-year-old woman's Egyptian theme that won

Peepankhamun used peeps and various household items to create a diorama inspired by the ancient Egyptian tombs.



She told the Post she was inspired to create the unusual art, which included peep-inspired hieroglyphics, by a recent museum visit.

I'd been to a really great Egyptian art museum in Chicago a couple months ago, and it just seemed like fun, a good possibility for drama and lighting, she said.

The newspaper said Sillers' creation narrowly beat out fellow finalists: the Pop Art-inspired Peep Art, the abstract Nightmare in Pink, the cinematically-inspired U2 Peep-D and Thrilla in Manila, which featured peeps imitating a famed Thriller performance.

You can check out all of the finalist here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/03/21/GA2008032101983.html?hpid=artslot

Fresh, frozen or stall I for one do not like them and only indulge once every few years to to remind myself why. The kids however love them and probably could have devoured an entire box a piece if I would let them. That of course would be very irresponsible of me.
Happy Easter to All

Green Eggs and Ham!

I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Cam I am. I would not eat them here or there I would not eat them anywhere. So shortly after the underpants episode we took the kids to Ihop for lunch. When we got there we noticed they had Horton hears A who pancakes and they looked fun, delicious and nutritious and we really needed to set a good example (at least once.)

Both Kaitlyn and Eryk wanted the pancakes so we decided to get them with the green eggs and ham to go with it. Just for fun and again for nutrition value. Spinach is good for kids... right?

Well it turns out neither of them like green eggs or ham. Kaitlyn claims she was going to eat the ham but it somehow ended up on the floor hmmmm.....


They loved the pancakes though and who wouldn't with sticky blueberry and rasperry sauce on top. Covered in chocolate sprinkles topped with a sucker

Cheyenne opted for the smiley face pancakes and had the opportunity to play with their food by adding go-gurt wherever their heart desired.

After everyone was done we let them blow bubbles in their milk. Just because!


It seems as though they had a great time at Ihop and should not require therapy later in life :)

Captain Underpants

Jared and I decided this weekend we needed some adventure in our lives because my blog has been a little boring lately. What better way to acheive this than by taking Brian and Kollette's three adorable children for a 24 period, thus relieving them of their parenting duties, and once again proving that we should not be entrusted to care for impression-ably young children. How the following scenario played out is a bit foggy to me, however we found ourselves in our truck with a package of Eryk's newly purchased King Kong under pants, and a litle extra time on our hands. I am sure it went something like this. Hey Cammie look at me, I hear from the back seat of our truck. I turn around to see Eryk with his under pants on his head. Every one laughs hysterically cause we think he is funny and thankfully I had my camera with me. I just have to take a picture so that in his dating years I have some sort of blackmail material. (Gage just doesn't know how lucky he is that it doesn't live close enough for me to pull out all my blackmail pictures of him doing silly things.)

Then I look over at Cheyenne and see her pig tails and think how funny it would be to see her put the under wear on her head with the pig tails sticking out. So I say to her, I'll give you a quarter if you put them on your head (I knew this would work cause what kid doesn't like money). Sure enough it worked liked charm and on went the under pants and out came the pig tails. Not too bad really, you could hardly tell they were under pants. Looked like some new fangled head wear. Getting a picture was easy as well as these innocent kids have been trained from birth to love the camera, and naively believe that Aunt Cammie would never want to embarrass them in anyway. I think later when I mentioned the word "blog" she regretted her decison and begged both me and her mom not to post the picture.

Now remember we had all of the kids with us strapped safely in the back seat of the truck and it is a case of Monkey see monkey do so of course Kaitllyn had to have her turn with the underpants on her head and who I am I to deny any child that right.

Winnie the Pooh and Cricut too!

I am seriously a huge Winnie the Pooh fan. My adoration of the Tubby little Cubby goes way way back. My very first recollection of the Willy nilly silly old bear was a trip to a Sears store when I was not quite old enough to stay with my Grandma like my brother and sister. As consolation my parents took me there to see Winnie the Pooh and all the gang. I remember them even buying me some Winnie the Pooh Pajama's the kind where the shirt and pants snapped together. Any who back to the reason for this post. I am frequent lurker on the Cricut.com message board and stumbled upon these two new cartridges for the Cricut that will be available in April.


It's exciting cause on this one not only did they include the usual gang they have also included the Heffalump.... what's next the woozels?

They have also made a font cartridge that includes cute little baby Pooh and friends. These are both a must have for my Cricut collection. Now if I can just find where Jared hid the credit card I can get my pre order in?

It's raining it's flooding

We have gotten a lot of snow during the 1st part of February then it started to warm up and yesterday we got a ton of rain. Those two combined have cause a lot of flooding to occur. It's pretty bad out here and our yard has not been landscaped so it's a muddy mess. Jared is enjoying driving around looking for large puddles to run his truck through.

This guy is taking the opportunity to get some rowing practice in



Give said the little stream.......



That guy that sold me the car told me it had a built in Pontoon. Me thinks he was wrong.

Valentine... you make my heart pop!

So I know that Valentines Day is behind us and all thoughts should be about Leprechauns and Shamrocks, but I did want to share a cute card that made for Valentine's Day that I could not share before because it would have spoiled the surprise. I got the idea for the card out of a Stamping magazine called Just cards (http://scottpublications.com/jcmag/) great magazine for inspiration and they have several different issues. This one just happened to have a section on pop up cards. The one they showed they used Shamrocks instead of hearts so you could basically make it for any occasion. I chose Valentine's Day.


I started by cutting two square pieces of paper from different color. Lay one square on top of the other and rotated a bit so there were 8 points and then glued together. Cut out 8 hearts and glued them to the points.


The folded in all the points in toward the middle of the card.

Tie with a ribbon and there you go. Put it in a envelope and it's ready to give. When the recipient unties the ribbon the card pops open.

The 3 Bears

Just a cute an easy treat I made for the kids for Valentines day. I got the entire template from my favorite website. http://www.pccrafter.com/. The have awesome artists that create the best things and most important these were very east to put together. The candy bars used were Nestle Crunch and then I printed the bear wrapper cut it out and glued it around the candy bar! The kids love them (of course not many kids hate CHOCOLATE)