Creative Friday x2

I never got to posting about last week's Creative Friday (which was on Tuesday), so this is a double dose.

Jill picked up Cafe Rio for lunch, courtesy of Jen M., and it was a treat as usual. But we were cracking up that they heard her name as "Joel." Right.

I even find the Cafe Rio aftermath to be pleasing.

I love this picture of Jill working her good mail magic.

a common C.F. sight

It was a very Eva-heavy day. She (and Rex) joined us for some drawing and sticker projects.

And dancing. {photo by Jill}

And some very traumatic gluing. {photo by Jill} Calgon, take me away.

And then Max came home and joined us at the table for some math homework.

Still, Jill ended up with this very happy array. I love that she took this picture of the stamps!

Another one of those days when I wonder if this is the last Creative Friday. (Thank heavens it wasn't!)


Yesterday, I made these cookies, because even though I'm off candy, we had to have something good! They were quite good, although I think I would like them even better if I substituted some butter for some of the shortening. (Jill suggested that they might then become too dangerous. She's got a point.)

Eva couldn't finish hers. I never have that problem.

The kids didn't have school, so Max, Lucas, and Landon played games together.

At one point, the mailman brought me the book I ordered from Shutterfly! It's the first photo book I've made, and I'm quite smitten. I can see how this could easily become an addiction.

Eva wanted to have one long tea party. Jill was good to humor her and took this cute picture of them "toasting."

I trimmed some Paris photos and made them into cards. After that, I was inexplicably tired and just didn't feel like doing anything. I told Jill I was this close to going downstairs and watching a movie on Marc's big-screen TV. Luckily, she concurred.

We went down and selected Every Little Step from Marc's streaming Netflix options. We hunkered down with blankets, and after Eva tried snuggling inbetween us and basically being a nuisance for quite awhile, she finally gave up and went upstairs to watch her own movie.

I thought we might just conk out, but we managed to stay awake and enjoyed the movie. It was a Creative Friday first.

And we were both glad that we took our self-portrait at the beginning, thus avoiding unsightly bedhead issues...