Playdough cookies

We like to have a fun activity to do on Friday nights. So, after dinner tonight, we cleared the table and all sat down to make our playdough cookies! Here's a little video of the kids shaping them. It's a fun idea I found on allrecipes.com .
You just make sugar cookie dough and divide it into four different balls, tint the balls with food coloring, then let the kids make whatever shape cookie they want.
You might notice the Mozart music in the background. I like Mozart. :)

Here's a few of the cookies before they're cooked:

And here they are coming out of the oven:

They kept their color! Yay!

Vacuuming the hair?

I just couldn't resist posting this. I just read on Mary's family website that when she cut my brother Ben's hair it was so thick she had to use a vacuum to get all the excess hair off of him when he was done...

Too funny... I wish we had a picture of the vacuum on his head. Why not just have him take a shower? :)

Enjoying the outdoors

Sarah and Kaitlyn like to take their blankets, pillows and toys outside in the yard sometimes. I only let them take a few things, and it's always funny to see which toys they choose. I like to catch the kids off gaurd when I take pictures so that I can get a true glimpse of what they are really doing while they play. Notice the toy blender Sarah is holding over the plastic tiger? I wonder what she was planning to do there....

Reading...

This is one of those very rare moments where my two oldest are actually getting along. Usually they are in opposotion to each other as Alan wants to play something to do with war and guns, while Sarah likes to play like she's a teacher or a news reporter. One thing they can both agree on are the poems of Shel Silverstein.

They're having a snack after church. I usually don't allow books at the table, but they seemed so peaceful reading to each other like that.