Cell-ebrate!

I have to be out of town a lot over the next couple of weeks and so I wanted to make sure I spent alot of time today with the girls. Ali Grace's friend Jordan spent the night last night and they trounced around the farm most of the morning before Jordan went home. I went to a great cookout last night with a great group of colleagues and even though I was still tired this morning, I willed myself out of bed! 

This evening I took some ground beef over to my Mama and asked her to make chili. It's good living close to your Mama. Most days. :)  While we were there, she had Ali Grace to decorate her Halloween tree. She already has her house beautifully decorated for fall.  I am just trying to keep my children in clean clothes. Benefits of retirement I guess. 

Knowing I'd be out of town Monday and Tuesday, we decided that rather than leave the "Cell Project" to Daddy, we'd try to get it done tonight and have it already done before Tuesday's due date. We went back and forth between a pizza, a cookie, a melon, and then back to a cookie. We had most of the ingredients either at our house or at Nanny's so this was the most inexpensive and convenient way to knock it out!  First, we made a big sugar cookie and iced it with vanilla icing!

Then we used a pecan twirl, iced with buttercream icing, for the nucleus. Ali chose gummy worms for the cell membrane and whoppers for the vacuoles. We were kinda stumped on the mitochondria since each organelle needed to be a different color. We wanted to use a miniature snickers but since we already had brown whoppers we had to choose something else. Rambling through my pantry, I found a small bag of candy easter eggs leftover from spring! (Heads up to Ms Johnson's 5A class- the cookie is delicious but stay away from the "aged" mitochondria!)

Ali Grace made the labels on Nanny's label maker and then she added sprinkles just for a little "bling". 

I am going to be at a conference in Forsyth, GA tomorrow and Tuesday. Then Friday, I am headed to Greensboro, NC for the weekend. The South Atlantic Relay for Life Summit is there at the Four Seasons and I am so looking forward to getting started with Jefferson County's Relay this year. I think I was suckered into being the chairperson for this year's event but I'm really looking forward to it! Have a great week everyone! Slow down and smell the roses. I'm working on that too!