Happy Saint Patrick's Day- or as our youngest calls it, "Leprechaun's Day"

As parents we live for holidays to see the excitement in our children. Two days ago Penelope spent a few hours devising various traps in hopes of catching a leprechaun. She planted fake gold coins in a treasure box and taped one to the top tassel so that when the leprechaun tried to pull it off he would get trapped in the box until she found him in the morning.  She was almost successful!  In the end, she caught a snippet of his green coat tail, some chocolate gold coins, and he left her a note.  She was pretty excited and is already scheming for next year's traps.

Hopefully you were a little more lucky than us in getting a pot of gold yesterday.  Have a great weekend!

#saintpatricksday #leprechaun #Lunchbagfriday #sethhippen #lunchbagart #whizbangbags #holidays #treasure #magic

Animal Facts, Valentine Puns, and the 3 Monkeys

I need to catch up on the past two months!  I forget to post here and am more faithful with the twitter, tumblr, facebook, and instagram pages for Whizbang Bags.  Sorry! 

January and February bags of cool animal facts and silly Valentine puns. 

Today's bags are a spin off of the old maxim of the 3 Wise Monkeys.  Seth altered one of the monkeys to make a glorified fart joke. haha  Enjoy!

Nativity Bags

Happy Lunch Bag Friday! 

Our last set of Christmas bags for the season.... sigh December is going by too fast. These are so peaceful. I love those soft highlights on their faces and baby Jesus' sweet head. I sat mesmerized looking at them this morning, feeling like I was almost there with them sharing that sacred moment. The girls loved them! Thanks Seth.heart emoticon

I've been enjoying adding past Christmas bags everyday to the Instagram page I created last week. I'll keep doing that- posting on there everyday and then new ones on Fridays. Follow there if you'd like to see them more often. smile emoticon https://www.instagram.com/whizbangbags/

Punny Christmas Carols

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!  I'm completely ignoring the fact that I've been terrible at remembering to post here. To be honest, I'm not sure how much this page is viewed. Just in case, I'm starting it up again.  :)  I love the silly spin Seth took on some classic Christmas carols for our girls' lunch sacks today.   We hope you are having a very merry season!

Prepped Eco Bag Designs

Mermaid & Sailor

Dragon

Bat Guy

Spider Person

Trick Or Treat

Apple A Day

Banjo Pig

Batty

Bo Peep

Cat Homework

 Cheshire Cat (Orange)

 Cheshire Cat (Purple)

Cow-a-Bunga

Creepy

 Dewdrop Princess

Elephant Rhino

 Fat Kitty

 Ghost Stories

Lion & Mouse

OctNinja

Pet Elephant

Alligator

Lunch Bag Friday: SNOW DAY!

We've been getting a lot of snow lately.  My middle child especially loves to play in the snow.  I've decided she's part polar bear.  Last week she built a "snow devil" on the hill of our front yard and a bunch of tiny snowmen around him scared.  I love Seth's drawing of how happy she is in her pretend world- especially with that halo above her head.  haha

Every night the girls pray that school will be cancelled the next day because of the snow.  Sometimes those prayers are answered the way they want them to be.  :)  A few days ago, when school and work were cancelled, we went on a walk around the neighborhood and ended up having a snowball fight on a frozen pond.  It was so fun.  :)  I'm mostly grateful the ice didn't crack and no one fell in.  I've never had a snowball fight on a frozen pond before.  It was a whimsical morning.  I'm so glad Seth drew it on Kenzie's sack.  Below are a bunch of pictures from the snowball fight.

I like this photo below.  I walked around the pond to see if the waterfall was still running or was frozen over.  If you look really closely you can see a small Makenzie ducking as Seth throws a snowball at her on the pond.  

The kids were pretty tuckered out after battling dad for an hour or so on the pond so Seth pushed all of them in Pip's stroller (at least part of the way home- he was pretty tuckered too after all).  That was as funny to me as the snowball fight.  Not every day is magical or carefree like a snow day, but there are magical and fun moments every day.  I always have my phone with me so I can capture photos of those moments.  I love to write them out and keep track of them.  They make me happy to look at and share- not to give an unrealistic point of view of our lives as if everything is always peachy- but more so that when the other 90% of regular, mundane, busy, or hard parts of life are going on I can look back at happy moments and smile.  I lay in my bed every night and smile at those photos or videos I've taken that day just before falling asleep.  I like to end my day focusing on the good.  :)

Christmas Lunch Bag Catch Up

 I didn't realize how far behind I was in posting Lunch Bag Fridays here.  Sorry.  Here are the Christmas bags.  :)  I hope you had a great holiday!

Christmas Lunch Bag Friday!

Happy Lunch Bag Friday the 13th~

Yay! More Christmas bags.  A few nights ago we watched “Home Alone”. It was the first time for our youngest (that she can remember anyway). The girls were in stitches rolling around the floor and acting the painful parts out- especially Penelope- which made us all laugh even harder. I got out my phone and began recording their giggle fits. So fun. Penelope has been talking about it everyday since… I have a feeling we will be watching that many more times before Christmas is done. 

On the back of the Rudolph bag Seth wrote something like this: “So, eventually Rudolph did go down in history, but more for his role as Supreme Dictator of Canada.” hahahaha LOVE IT!

Hopefully this brought you a chuckle. Feel free to “share” the smile 

Merry Christmas Season! 

Rainbow Dasher and Queen of the Lunchroom

Happy Lunch Bag Friday! 12-6-13

Did you miss us last week?  We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving... we did! It was wonderful stuffing ourselves and spending so much time together. One more month of overtime and we will get to see this awesome animating/illustrator daddy more.

The girls put in special requests for this week. Makenzie loves My Little Pony (even though she's a teenager- hey it's not strange... there's a whole fun community of Bronies).  She asked him for something My Little Pony-ish and this is what he came up with. LOVE IT! Seth calls this one "Rainbow Dasher" hahaha I guess you'd have to be a Brony to understand the joke behind the name.

Kendyl requested that he draw on her lunch bag showing her as the undisputed Queen of the Lunchroom. SUCCESS!  I love her sitting on all the lunch tables stacked up almost like the Princess and the Pea. She was very excited to bring it to school today. She kept looking at it and proudly smiling as we waited at the bus stop this morning.

I look forward to the rest of the month and the beautiful Christmasy things Seth will draw for them on their lunch sacks. Happy Friday!... Happy December!... Happy Christmas!

Lunch Bag Friday: Mythical Creature Hunter

Lunch Bag Friday’s Post

Oh WOW! Seriously? This set is sooo knock-your-socks- off amazing! I kept trying to sneak peeks at them Thursday night while Seth was drawing because I could tell they were going to be great. He keeps out-doing himself on these. I loved hearing the symbolism behind this idea- it led to a great late-night discussion.   It has such beautiful lighting too.

I loved listening to the girls Friday morning morning, debating and creating the story of what they thought was going on. Pip’s theory made absolutely no sense, was slightly macabre, and super silly.  We all just looked at her like she was nuts when she was done telling us about it/acting it out. lol

Lunch Bag Friday (11-8-13)

"Too Late"

You can just tell this this is such a sweet story and a sad story at the same time on these bags. Seth and I were talking about how the teenage years and preteen years for both of us seemed to be filled with unrequited love. It was in those years that we both had our first really strong crush and heartbreak. Our older girls are going through that just a little bit and Seth wanted to make them some lunch sacks that say, “I know. I love you!”  

It was fun to hear them run down the stairs two Fridays ago when Seth drew these, flip on the kitchen lights, and both let out a long sigh, “oooooOOOOHHhh. How cute,” and “Poor guy!” When I walked in the room Kendyl was still sighing and smiling at her sack (she’s our hopeless romantic). She turned to me and said, “I haven’t had a boy like me at the same time as me liking him since Kindergarten. We use to pretend Stars Wars and puppies and one time we hid in a closet from his sister and he kissed my hair.” 

WHAT?! I never knew that! hahahaha I think we may be in for some rough years ahead with these girls. hahaha Wish us luck!

Lunch Bag Friday: A Cold Thanksgiving

Happy Lunch Bag Friday!

"Sudden Ice Age Theory" (poor guy had bad timing) and "A Good Thanksgiving"

Crunch time on his movie = either staying up to the middle of the night to draw or getting more sleep and printing off old sketches onto white paper sacks. I'm so glad Seth chose to print off previously made art so he could get more sleep. The girls and I got such a kick out of these this morning. Makenzie was especially excited to bring hers to school. Seth "picked" this one for her because of some old Kindergarten graduation footage I shot of her going to town trying to hook a big one while she was on stage many years ago. hahahaha We love looking up that old video. It gets funnier every time.  It's awesome and she's super proud of it. lol

Well we hope you have a great weekend and a fun Thanksgiving just around the corner... I hope it turns out better for you than this good wife. 

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #4

This is the last set from Seth’s Peter Pan Series that he made last year for our girls.   I'm sure Peter Pan would approve of finishing the series off with the wonderful boy himself and his Wendy Bird. :)  I imagine they are overlooking the scene of Hook tying the native princess to Skull Rock in order to try to trap Peter.  tsk tsk  Such bad form Captain! 

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #3

Another mermaid and her octopus buddy. When Seth gave our girls these two lunch sacks they thought these friends were playing hide-and-go-seek.  :) I love Seth's mermaids.  They are always so beautiful.

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #2

A Captain Hook loving crocodile and some lovely mermaids.  :)

Peter Pan Lunch Bag Series #1

Seth drew a "Peter Pan" series of lunch sacks for our girls last year.  I'll post a set a day this week and start this adventure off with the unrelenting Captain Hook, his companion Shmee, and the even more stubborn Princess Tiger Lily as they head to Skull Rock.