Cousin Craft Camp 2010

It's Cousin Craft Camp time again! It has been so fun having the Rissers here for a whole week!! We are having so much fun and we still have a couple more days left!!


Cousin Cook-Off... We split up into teams, chose an appetizer and a dessert, shopped, cooked and presented at the Johnson's on Saturday. We had everyone vote. Emily, Jillian and Megan won in the dessert catagory with their Chinese Take-out Cupcakes. Brooklin and Heather won with their Cheese-y Corn Dip.

The girls played a game of Kick-the-Can...

We took a trip to Painted Earth, a paint-you-own pottery shop. Grace and Ethan even got to come inbetween their vacations.

They had a Cousin Camp-Out in the backyard...

Brooklin and Megan set up shop giving massages. They earned quite a few dollars for our trip to the mall.

A little sewing...

Family time at the Johnson's...

Divingboard...

IN-N-OUT!

White Lime for yogurt...

The mall...

And last night we made our own lip gloss...

The fun and activities keep on coming!...

The Next Generation

For more on my history with snakes...click here.

Ahhhh, the beach...

For Spring Break, Meg, Abbey, and I got to get away with our friends, the Villanuevas. We went camping at the beach. It was lovely...

"Wow"

Megan's social studies teacher assigned her class a book report for Black History Month. Meg's book had to be at least 200 pages. After she read the book, she was to do an original book report. No papers, no dioramas, no poster boards. The assignment was to "wow" her teacher.

Her book was called Hidden in Plain View. It was about how the Underground Railroad used to use quilts to post secret messages about when it was safe to escape from slavery. They would hang the quilts out on the fence. To the slave owners, it just looked like quilts airing out in the sun. To the slaves, each block pattern had a different significance. One meant it was time to pack your belongings, another meant it was safe to escape, etc.

For her project, Megan chose 4 blocks and we made a small sampler quilt. I helped by cutting out the pieces and sewing the sashing, but otherwise, Meg did most of it herself. She was meticulous! It turned out beautifully! She also wrote a summary and we sewed it onto the back. I think she'll get an A+!




Her blocks were the monkeywrench, log cabin, shoofly, and bowtie patterns.

RECON

Megan is on a hip-hop dance team. Their team is called RECON. They competed this past weekend at Showstopper Dance Competition. She/they were great! They were 3rd in their catagory and 10 group overall.