Monsters, Fast and Easy

So last night was classic over-scheduled night with my duties to my Moms group, preschool, blogging, boys lunches, a visit from the very pixie dusted tooth fairy, and our 1st Giveaway ended last night too. Congratulations Deb D. I hope you have a fun time with all that flair this year! Thank you to everyone who entered, joined this blog, and started following us on facebook, twitter, and pinterest. So by the time I got up after only 5 hours of sleep with more work to do, I thought of monsters, but wanted quick and easy since I hadn't had my coffee yet, and you know what that means.

Mike on the fly 

In this lunch :

• Blue monster container - Cucumbers
• Green Monster container - strawberries
• Mike Wazowski - Ham and provolone with goldfish background - the mouth was from a ring pop promotion when Monsters 2 came out, washed and recycled as a food pick!

Sulley on the fly 

In this lunch :

• Blue monster - cucumbers
• Green monster - strawberries
• Sulley - ham and provolone sandwich with ring pop mouth pick

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Monsters University

Continuing our summer movie preview guide...AKA movies we can't wait to go see when they come out. We really loved the original Monsters Inc. and cannot wait to see what the collegiate versions have in store for us. All of our favorite monsters are back and funnier than ever.

Sulley and Mike

In this lunch :

• Sulley -
• Jelly toast 
• Mascarpone cheese tinted blue for fur fluffed with a toothpick (Thanks Lunchbox Dad)
• Candy eyes
• Nose - strawberry (darkened with food coloring)
• Mouth - Fruit leather and mascarpone teeth
• Horns - bugles (Colored), on top of Monsters Cheese-its
• Mike - Cucumber, provolone, sugar snap pea (horns and arms), wet veggie smears food coloring
• Watermelon M and U and M and U college pennants
• Monsters gummy snacks (Not pictured...oops see below)

Randall and Mike

In this lunch :

• Randall - Jelly sandwich, fruit leather and candy eye glasses, provolone mouth, colored with food coloring, on top of Monsters University Cheese-it crackers
• Mike - Cucumber, provolone eye, sugar snap pea arms and horns
• M and U Watermelon, watermelon M and U college pennants
• Monsters University fruit snacks

Of course Mike was the first Monster we ever did way back in October. To see that post click here or on the picture.

 Mike and Boo 

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