because we're awesome like that

Brandon and I are big fat dorks sometimes. Ok lets face it most of the time. Often times we act like 10 year olds. ok lets face it, its often me and its most of the time. Last weekend we decided we had to get our butts of the couch and stop watching that stupid show and do something. So we went to dinner and then to Hobby Lobby to search out a craft to do. And hour and a half later we left hobby lobby with no craft in hand. The only reason we left that soon was because they were closing. We perused the same isles over and over again trying to find some little hobby/craft to do. We didn't want something too expensive and it had to be able to include Michelle because unbeknown to her we were planning on including her in this little adventure. After Hobby Lobby we went to walmart and with a severely smaller collection to choose from, we each chose a craft in under 20 minutes. I proudly walked out with a make your own eraser kit out of molding clay/eraser clay stuff and Brandon walked out with 1,000 popsicle sticks, a hot glue gun and 100 glue sticks. We informed Michelle of our plan and went to Brandon's parent's house to watch the Jazz game with them and start our crafts. I made tons of little eraser things which by the way do not erase and brandon made a little random platform thing. we then had the genius idea to each make a boat and see who's floated/raced the best in the bathtub. We spent a good hour or so before we finally had to put a time limit on brandons and went and floated them. My had a leak and sank pretty much right away but Michelles and Brandon's floated pretty well. Here are pictures from Fridays boat making (yes there is another day of boat making)

My erasers

My star fish friends and Michelle's little girl eraser

Our boats

Our boats in action. mines the one sinking with the symphony bar wrapper on it, brandon's has the little dude sticking out of it and michelle's has the lego man on it. We then decided that night that it was so much fun we were going to have a competition party tomorrow to make the best boat and float it down the canal right by our house. at 3 on Saturday Michelle, Chelsea and Adam and Brandon and I commenced round two of boat making. Here are the results. I think its funny how each boat and the way they made them kind of matched the makers personality

Everyone thought mine looked like a coffin so i put a little dead man and did one of those lame halloween decoration jokes and labeled it RIP here lies Can E. Float, may he have a safe journey... like I said, ten year old...

Floating down the canal

The moment that allowed me to technically win because everyone's got stuck but there were several different categories, fastest, floatability, style etc etc. Just kidding we ended up not really caring and just chucking them down the canal and seeing how they did. All in all it was very fun and highly recommended. I say up next, winter popsicle sleds to throw down old main hill ;).