It was a homemade kind of day!

What do you do at 7:30am when your kids wake you up...well you have them make a little video for their Auntie. They sang her Happy Birthday and blew her kisses...adorable :) Happy Birthday sis, love ya!

Jason's work schedule is a rotating shift, a week on days, a week on graves and then a week on swing. It can be a little crazy, but we make it work pretty well :) On the days he is working swing shift and not home for dinner, we do our "family dinner" for lunch. Today was some bomb meatballs with spaghetti and garlic bread. The meatballs came out amazing. This was a bunch of stuff Jason threw together on his own, and all the spices were shaker version this time...none fresh, had they been that would have pushed it over the edge of acceptable levels of scrumptiousness LOL

1 lbs lean ground beef
1 lbs pork sausage
1 egg
2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 Italian bread crumbs
2 tbsp dry minced onion
1 tbsp dry basil
2 tbsp milk
pepper to taste

Combine everything, shape into balls. Bake at 325 for 20 min then simmer in your pasta sauce of choice for an hour.

Of course, we are having spaghetti...so Lady and The Tramp must be reenacted :)

After our homemade meatballs, we decided to make a little homemade slime! Yeah, the kids were just a little excited.

We have never made slime before...we have never even played with store bought slime before. This was SO easy.
You need:
1 cup of liquid starch,
1 cup of CLEAR Elmer's glue (2 bottles of glue is a little more than 1 cup.)
Food coloring

Mix the glue and starch in a large bowl...blend and blend until it is more slime and less chunk, then blend a little more. Once it starts to become more like slime you can separate it out and add food coloring if you wish. At first I thought it wasn't going to turn out...it was goopy and lumpy but not really slimy...I kept working it then gave it a couple min. to set up and voila slime.

 The trio loved helping make the slime.

Time for the food coloring!

No one but Jericho had any reservations what so ever to the slime. Little Man though, not so sure LOL.

About the time the food coloring was well worked in, the slime became less lumpy and goopy and more slimy. And a whole lot of fun!

When my back was turned Xander decided his green slime needed to be even greener...teaches me not to leave food coloring within reach.

Jericho did end up liking the slime...most of the time.

Just not when it got cold. If you work it and play with it enough it stays semi room temp...but if you let it sit it gets cold. Jericho would toss it to me as soon as it got cold, then I would work it until it was warmer and toss it back to him LOL.

We worked on our prosthetic makeup skills. Silly nose anyone?

Everyone was putting noses on, Jericho got very unhappy because he couldn't do it. Big sister Hayden to the rescue :)

They loved this stuff...and I don't know if it was just because it was new or if it really is better, but it was so easy to clean up...didn't end up in little tiny bits all over the place like play dough. MUCH better!