Owl Follow the Prophet

As a follow up to General Conference, we had an "Owl Follow the Prophet Pizza Party".  It was a  great success.  That very day I happened to be at Target and saw these owls on clearance.  What luck!

The children made owl cupcakes.  I got the idea from here. 

This pattern is from Lakeshore.  I printed out the pattern, and the children cut their owls out and assembled them.  The wings open up for the children to write their goal. 

The Real Neiman Marcus Chocolate Cookie

I have been making this recipe for over 10 years.  My mother-in-law found it online.  Recently I did a search and found it here. 

Breakfast Bento

Just a simple bento for my boy.   It has been awhile since I put together a bento.  I need to get back into making bentos. 

Getting Ready for General Conference.

I found this booklet online at Fluffy Bunny Feet Designs and decided to make some for our ward.  I originally wanted to make a conference bag with a small snack and a juice box, but our ward discourages giving out food on Sunday.  I decided to instead add a mechanical pencil and a glue stick to the packet for the children. 

After I assembled 30 conference packets, I saw these eyeballs at Target and thought they would make great little reminders to watch conference.  So I printed up these tags to attach to the bag.  

I hope that the children will be more motivated to watch conference.  

I found this treasure chest at Walmart quite by accident.  The packets and eyeballs are going inside for the children to pick up on their way out.  

We also have a "Owl" follow the Prophet party next week.  More on that later.

Mickey Mouse Bento

Cute little Koa asked for a bento, not a sandwich bento. He wanted me to look at the Susan Yuen's bento book and make something from there. I decided to take just one part of her bento to use, her wrapped cylinder musubi. I used a Mickey Mouse punch on it. Here are the results. I hadn't made a musubi like these before, so I was happy to try a new idea. I even included little nori faces. The second layer contains mini corn muffins I baked in the morning, fresh cut pineapple, and Portuguese sausage.

Susan Yuen

I love Susan's bento books. I also like that she lives here in Hawaii, because she has the same style of cooking that my family loves. Also, I can run out and things that she mentions quite easily.

I was quite nervous to meet her, but was happy to actually meet her in person. I was a bit goo-goo ga-go over meeting her in person. She is quite gorgeous, don't you think?

Koa wanted me to buy her book and make some of her bentos.

Waikiki Aquarium

We went to the Waikiki Aquarium this weekend. I was inspired to make fish shaped tuna sandwiches with some "seaweed" (cucumbers) for the fish to eat. Also, some "rocks" (olives) for the fish to hide in.