One of my favorite high school memories is when my mom would take my girlfriends and I around to go toilet papering and decorate dashing! Decorate dashing is when we would simply make the boys cars/trucks look even prettier with Oreo's and or anything else we could find at the last minute :) Good clean fun! The best part was having my Mom as our get-a-way driver! I can proudly say that after NUMEROUS nights out...we only got caught once! LOL...Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Milne, but honestly there was no need to wake Brian up ;)
I might have started a little earlier with my kids...but we have a ball out there together! My friend Natalie and her daughter, Taylor, are always our partners in crime fun! The first few times we went out we went penny tapping...
Penny tapping involves a band aid, penny, and lots of clear fishing line. Stick the fishing line and the penny on one side of the band aid. Place the other side of the band aid onto the corner of a neighbors window. Take the other end of the fishing line somewhere across the street and hide where you cannot be seen. Pull the string over and over. This results in a loud and awkward sounding noise on the window. SUPER FUNNY!!
Joel and Adam taught this to Carie and I. I would like to say that the four of our adults have outgrown our penny tapping days...but it's addicting :)
The kids first penny tapping victim was Natalie's sister-in-law and nieces. It took over 15 minutes before they figured it out. It would have taken longer but Ry started laughing too hard and got us busted.
The next weekend our second victim was our friends, the Bingham family. This one is the best one EVER!! Little did we know that Callie was sitting in her dark living room watching us the entire time....she watched us drive-up, get out of the car to find a hiding spot and get the band aid ready, she watched Ry and Taylor run up and stick the band aid to her window...and then she waited. She patiently waited until we had given up and sent the kids to get the band aid....at which point she started BANGING on the inside of her window. The kids started SCREAMING...Ry jumped over her flower bed and took off running! IT WAS HILARIOUS!!
The next weekend we decided to try something new. I got a great idea from Pinterest....I FREAKING LOVE PINTEREST!! We thought we would try Ding Dong Ditching! You can even follow the links from Pinterest and print the cute tag for your box of ding dongs.
After a quick stop at Maverik...for ding dong's and hot chocolate...we set out to find our victims. Our first victim was Ky's friend, Tyler. Our second victim was Ry's friend, Riley. Our third victim was Taylor's friends, Cydney and Jaycee...aka the Frayser Twins :)
Taylor knew all about the Frayser's having video cameras in their yard...so the kids made plans to dance for their cameras on the way up to the front porch. So...they dance and then they ditched! We spent the next hour playing night games at the park and headed home. Natalie dropped us off and within minutes was texting me that she was on her way back. Her and Taylor were laughing. When they arrived home they found this surprise waiting for them!
In order of appearance...Taylor, Ry, Ky and in the very back is Natalie.
I was in the get-a-way car!
In less then an hour, they put the video to music...posted it to youtube...and came up with this cute Snicker idea. They are almost as clever as me ;)
I knew that they had figured out that it was Taylor...but I thought that they wouldn't know that it was Ry and Ky with her. BOY WAS I WRONG! Mrs. Frayser is a teacher at my kids school...in fact she was both Ry an Ky's 3rd grade teacher. Monday morning I had to deliver things for Red Ribbon Week to her class...and she totally called me on it. We were both laughing and she had to explain to her entire class about our "weekend fun" :)
Needless to say....WE'VE BEEN...and continue to plan on...HAVING FUN!
