I may be pregnant but I can still party!

Since I have been pregnant I have been trying out a lot of non-alcoholic drinks. I want to have fun, party and be festive while still being smart and responsible.

My current favorite MOCKtail is Safe Sex on the Beach:
1 part orange juice
1 part cranberry juice
1 oz peach nectar
1 tbsp grenadine syrup

Mix equal parts of orange juice and cranberry juice, add nectar, and pour over ice. Sink the grenadine, garnish with a pineapple wedge, and serve.

Here are some other good recipes also:

FLYING FAIRBROTHER

2 oz. Grapefruit Juice
1 oz. Orange Juice
1 oz. Cranberry juice
1 tsp. Honey
3 oz. Ginger Ale

Drink Recipe Instruction In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the grapefruit juice, orange juice, cranberry juice, and honey. Shake well. Strain into a collins glass almost filled with ice cubes. Top with the ginger ale. Stir well.

UNFUZZY NAVEL
3 oz. Orange Juice
3 oz. Peach Nectar
1 tbs. Lemon Juice
2 dashes Grenadine
Orange Slice
Shake liquids with ice and strain into a collins glass. Garnish with orange slice.

BORA BORA
3.38 oz Pineapple juice
2 oz Passion fruit juice
0.33 oz Lemon juice
0.33 oz Grenadine syrup
Prepare in a blender or shaker, serve in a long drink glass on the
rocks. Garnish with 1 slice of pineapple and one cherry.

And I think they all taste better if they have an umbrella!

Monsters vs. Aliens Movie Night

My niece (kirsten8or) joined us for our Monsters vs. Aliens Movie Night this week which was a special treat for all 3 kids.


I made B.O.B. out of blue jello (I used the Jello Jiggler recipe). I cut the B.O.B.s out with a gingerbread girl cookie cutter, used a tiny dollop of whip cream and a red M&M for his eye. The kids thought these treats were some of the coolest treats we have had. Yay for Jello Jigglers!

I was also able to pick up some "growing monsters" from the $1 bin in Target. The kids had fun watching the monsters grow in the water.

And to end the night, they each got 3 monster pencils (again, courtesy of the Target $1 bin)!


This movie was pretty good - especially for an animated movie. The kids all really liked it and even Mike and I laughed at a lot of parts.

Race to Witch Mountain and Narnia Movie Nights

A few weeks ago we were able to fit 2 movie nights into 1 weekend!

On Friday, we watched Race to Witch Mountain. The movie was actually pretty good! The kids thought it was interesting and fun, my husband like the action and adventure and I liked... THE ROCK!!! LOL! He could probably make a documentary about slow growing plants worth watching.

For the treats, we made giant UFO cookies. We made the flat base part of the UFOs out of sugar cookies. Against my better judgment, I used store bought dough (never as good in my opinion, but so much quicker and easier). For the dome in the center, we used snowballs which were are biggest challenge. We drove ALL OVER TOWN before we were able to find 2 packages (4 snowballs total). But after an hour of driving and running into convenience stores, Walgreens and supermarkets we were successful! For the lights, we cut Mike and Ike's in half.

We each decorated our own and the kids had a lot of fun helping make and decorate their PUFOs (Personal Unidentified Flying Objects as K-man called them).

You can probably tell which PUFOs are the kids'. They are lit up a lot more than Mike and I's!

The PUFOs were so big it took us all weekend to eat them.

On Sunday night, we watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

I bought bean bag chairs for the bonus room and the kids were looking for any reason possible to pull them downstairs and use them.

We have all seen Narnia before but we have never had a movie night with it and this seemed like as good as time as any.

Our treats were Turkish Delight (I used sugared fruit chews) wrapped up in white tissue paper and green ribbon.

Inkheart Movie Night

We have been so busy lately that we haven't been able to fit in a movie night every week. And when we have, I haven't been very good about posting about it.

We watched Inkheart about 6 weeks ago. I like to have the kids help me come up with treat ideas, when possible, because I know their imagination is much better than mine. And they are usually SO proud when the treats turn out good.

K-man thought of the treat for Inkheart all on his own except that he wanted red icing on the brownies. We decided that chocolate icing would taste the best, and it would be hard to make it red, so he and V-girl came up with the idea of using chocolate icing but adding something red on top. So we hit the grocery store. Red sprinkles almost won the contest until they settled on red sour patch pieces. V-girl was insistent on these which is really funny because she didn't like them and picked them all off.

The final result:

The movie was "OK". The kids didn't LOVE it and neither did we but it was entertaining and as always, we enjoyed watching it together as a family!