Don't Get Cold Feet Game

We love, love to try different games and challenges in our family.  I learned how to play this game at my cousin's bridal shower, and had to try it with the kiddos.  It's super easy.  

You will need a giant pan like a turkey roaster or we used a new kitty litter box from Dollar Tree, 20 or so loose leaf binder rings, a bag of ice and water.  We added a towel to help dry off our feet.

Setup where its ok to get wet right before you want to play or the ice will melt.

Pour bag of ice into pan.

Fill pan with cold water.

Drop in rings and stir them around.

The point of the game is to see who can get the most rings out in one minute.

We just had one pan, and played one at a time.  

You could easily add more rings and compete at the same time with one or more pans.

Decide on the rules before hand.

Do you have to pick them up with your toes and drop them out,

or will you allow them to push them out over the side?

SOME people tried to just push everything out rings, ice, and water.

*Be careful not to keep your feet in the water too long, you don't want to get hypothermia, frostbite, etc.

She said she'd take the "L" and didn't get any rings.

It's too cold.

Mom came in second with 15 and didn't cheat!

The cold water didn't bother her a bit, she got all 20 rings and was like lets see how long I can stand it it.  I made her get out after two minutes.  We don't need to loose any limbs.

We told the winner she could dump the pan on the losers.

of course this turned into a water fight.

The kids had so much fun with this game,

we hope you do too.

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Pearl Party at Home

One day my middle daughter and I sat and watched a pearl party on Facebook for over an hour.  It was just one of those things when you are procrastinating that draws your attention.  We thought it looked like fun, but we were shocked the prices the customers were paying to have someone else open an oyster for them.  They were upwards of $20 or more per pearl, and bonus if you bought 5 you got a "free" necklace.  We had no idea this was a thing, but there are several people making a ton of money hosting these pearl parties online. 

We decided to look into how much it would cost us to do at home.  We decided to see what kind of stuff amazon had.  Much to our surprise everything was actually really cheap.

Amazon had tons of different options for oysters with pearls inside, at all different price points.

We decided on the colorful 30 pack that guaranteed a pearl in each oyster.  There were 3 sizes of oysters, but all the pearls were around the same size approx. 7mm. Click here for link

We don't normally eat oysters, so we decided to buy some oyster shuckers.

There were tons to choose from, but we opted for this set. It came with four shuckers, four spoons to retrieve the pearls, and a set of gloves to protect your hand from cuts. Click here for link

Both sizes worked equally good.

We thought it would be fun to go all out and get the pearl necklaces to complete the party.  We opted for this set, because it came with multiple designs and non were childish.  Two of the charms (the shell and rose), only fit the smallest pearl.  So, you might be two short if you only get larger pearls.  The charms included small colored lava rock stones used to diffuse essential oils. Click here

We wanted some nice chains to go with the charms.  We opted on these snake like plated silver chains.  They looked fancier than the regular chains for about the same cost, and had good reviews.  So far, we haven't had any issues.  Click here for link

My daughter loved the groups that put the pearls in white sand in a martini glass.

We got this white craft sand, and martini glass at the Dollar Tree.

Here is a Amazon link to similar products.

My girls were freaked out to touch the oysters and whatever preserving fluid they had on them.

We got these medical gloves at Sam's Club, but here's a link to similar ones on Amazon.

Each color pearl has a different meaning.  

We found an awesome site that contained most of the colors meanings.

Dang it, I can't find the site we used, sorry.  There are tons of websites to choose from, just Google pearl color meanings.

We looked up each pearl color meaning, as we opened each oyster.  

This made the party last longer, and a little more fun.

The girls were giggling and teasing over the different pearl color meanings.  They said it reminded them of a fortune cookie or a mood ring.

They acted out being a Pearl Party host, it was hilarious. 

None of the pearls were the same color.

It's hard to tell from the picture.

We did the party at the beginning of the Covid 19 social distancing, so we are not looking our best, lol.

Here are all our pearls. 

We each got to open six oysters. 

We cleaned our pearls in cups of water with a drop of Dawn dish soap.

The girls were fighting over which charms they wanted.  

Here's a link to the one charm everyone wanted the most.

  

I separated the charms into equal groups containing a highly desired one, and less desired one. 

 Only four of us wanted the charms, so we each got three.

I put them into cups and made the girls pick a color from across the room.  They got to keep the charms in the colored cup they chose.

The charms open up to fit the pearl inside.

The finished product. 

 How fun to be able to change out the pearls to match your outfit.

We had a blast at our pearl party!

Let us know how your Pearl Party went.

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Pi Day - Pizza Pies and a Pie Eating Contest

We wanted to do something fun to celebrate Pi Day this year.

We decided to make pizza pies and have a pie eating contest.

We went to our local grocery store and bought some ready made pizza dough, sauce and all the fixings.

We wanted the pie eating contest to be individual mini pies.  We found these super cute and easy  Pie Crusts.  You could also use frozen or larger crusts.  We thought it would be funny to make it messy, so we went with pudding for the pie filling. Scroll down if you just want to see the funny pie eating contest pictures.

For the pizza's we cut the ready made dough in half, so everyone could make their own.

We pulled out our pizza stones.

Can't tell one is older than the other one, lol.

We like to make pizza's on our Traeger Smoker. So Good!

This is what everyone picked out for our toppings.

Remember, making the pizzas together is part of the fun!

We tried to roll out the pizza as thin as we could, they always raise a bunch.

One of the kids decide on making a calzone instead.

We always put the pizza on parchment paper so we can easily take them off the pizza stone after cooking, so we can reuse the same stone.

We decided to make some breadsticks with the extra half of the pizza dough.

Make sure it is good a cooked through, nothing worse than doughy pizza.

Now for the pie eating contest

We just followed the directions on the pudding package, added a few sliced banana's (possible choking hazard) and whipped topping.

We decided our faces wouldn't fit into the mini pie tins.

So, we popped out the pies into a salad bowl.

You want to make sure the crust is still on the bottom, otherwise it's too easy to win.

No Hands Allowed!

Be sure to take a video and fun pictures.

We put our video camera on a tripod, so we could have a good laugh after.

Needless to say I did not win!!!

I am the world's slowest eater.

It was so fun, we took a family picture with the pudding still on our faces.

I wasn't allowed to post that though, lol teenagers.

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