Spring Break At Grandpa and Grandma's house

The kids had Spring Break the week before Easter so we headed to my parents for a couple of days.  We had a great time playing, making crafts, having a "cookout," and searching for Easter baskets.  However, I didn't have a camera with me so sadly I have no pictures.

While we were there I asked my parents if I could borrow the crib that they keep on hand for when grand babies come to visit, and they sent it back with me.  My mom had bedding she had made for it so I asked if I could borrow that as well (since we don't have any of that stuff anymore).  I love the browns and teals, but wanted to add something to "soften" it a little and she was sweet enough to let me "girlify" the quilt she had made for the set.  I just added some simple rosettes and made a ruffle pillow to match out of some fabric she had in her stash.  If I can find the time I also brought back some other matching scraps she had on hand that I want to make a peacock pillow out of (found a great tutorial online), and maybe some other cute little accent decorations.

I ended up with a lot of threads that we pulled while making the pillow and Derek took those along with some fabric scraps and wanted to make an angry bird out of it, so Grandma being the creative lady she is figured out a way to do it.  Well that started a trend that Aiden wanted to be part of and soon we had an angry bird factory going on.  Derek and Aiden started rummaging through Grandma's scraps and craft supplies and came up with all kinds of birds and pigs.  Here is a picture of the original bird Grandma helped Derek make and one of the pigs we also made while there.

My mom said she is going to nickname us the "Creatives."  I do think my kids have great imaginations and love to see what they come up with.  Here are a few other things Derek has made recently.  First is Derek's creation made out of the lego candy we gave out at his birthday party (more on that to come).

Here is the creation he put together while we were gathering all his duplo vehicles pieces to be used for his party.  He was very proud of it.

And all of the kids had fun with the fondant I made to decorate his birthday cake.  Aubs made a cat that looked like Simon, but somehow I didn't get a picture of it!