Love these Ideas!

I have a hard time sometimes coming up with lunches for my boys.  I kind of feel like I give them the same things every day. So I loved this idea I saw on this website.  What a great idea to use muffin tins for lunch. It's the perfect portion sizes for toddlers I think.

We've been making them this week and the boys have been loving lunch time. And it makes me think of what healthy things I can come up with to fill each circle. The website has so many creative ideas to try and really cute ones for holiday lunches and monthly themes.

It took me awhile to find 6 cup muffin tins, but I eventually found some at Ross and they were only $5 each.

 These are 2 of our lunch creations

And I have to just say I love the neighborhood we are living in right now.  Someday when we settle down, I definitely want to be in a family oriented neighborhood like this one.  It seems like they are always coming up with neighborhood events like campouts, get togethers, etc. Once a month, you can sign up elementary age kids for a night with the "book cook" at the town hall.  It's completely free and last night was a dinosaur themed one which of course Brayden loved! They did so much fun stuff for 2 hours and there were a few really cute ideas that I want to remember. They'd be fun for a dinosaur birthday party or something.

• Take a balloon and blow it up and put one of those little 'grow in water dinosaur capsules' in it (the kind that turn into little foam animals).  Then paper mache the outside of it so it looks like an egg and let it dry. Once it's dried and hard, pop the balloon inside and put the whole paper mache egg in some water. When the egg dissolves, the kids find a little baby dinosaur inside..  We hatched our egg today and it was very cute!

• They took brown paper bags from the grocery store and put one on each foot.  Then the adults duct taped it around the ankle and all the kids had big dinosaur feet stompers.  Then they let out a bunch of balloons, turned on some dinosaur music, and they had fun stomping on all the balloons and dancing to the music.

Here's part of the dinosaur stomp.  You could bring younger kids at the end for the stomp so Tyler was excited to join in. It was so cute!

My little brother Kyle flies here tomorrow, followed by my sister Kelly, so I am REALLY excited to spend lots of time with them! It's hard to say if I'm more excited about their visit or Brayden.  He has been counting down the days for the last few weeks! Yay for visitors :)