Abracadabra!!

Our friends Brian and Rebekah South own their own business.  It's a business that they started and it is unlike any business that we have ever thought of.  Brian is a professional magician.  He doesn't perform anymore (except for us since he is our Home Teacher and his lessons always have a magic trick that illustrates the message very well) but he does invent magic tricks for other magicians to perform.  His business is selling those magic tricks to magicians all over the world.  One of the tricks he invented uses a magic wand that increases in size.  We were asked if we would be willing to make some of those wands in four different sizes for them, the catch is that they needed thousands of them.  I don't think it took our family 2 seconds to say yes.  We were so excited to be able to help "make" magic with them.  

These are hundreds of tubes of pipe insulation that will be cut down in to individual wands.  This isn't even all of the tubes that we used.

Dakota couldn't wait to play in the pile of tubes.

After the tubes were cut into the proper length we would stuff them into a "sock" and sew the sock closed.  We had to be ever vigilant with Megan and Alex because the boxes of socks were just too tempting for them.

Alex burying Megan in the wand socks.

Who needs sand and a beach to have fun being buried up to your neck.

This is what happens if you take your eyes off of the kids for even a minute.  They are just as fast and damaging as a tornado.  ( There were four different sizes of socks organized in that box they mixed together.)

One of many piles of wands that we made.

Again, Dakota couldn't wait to get in the middle of the huge pile of wands.