Making Sarah's Birthday Cake

Today was Sarah's 8th Birthday! We had a small family party because we'll have the big party in a few weeks when the Grandparents get here and she is baptized. We took the kids to Chuck E Cheese's and then when we got home William and Kaitlyn helped me make an ice cream cake for Sarah.
She wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, and mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle. As you can see, William enjoyed taste testing the frosting. "Do you want to taste it too?"

Last Day of school party

Today was the last day of school, and the girls wanted to have a "slumber party" in Alan's room. I let them drag their things into his room and they are all playing quietly in there right now.

It's a rare thing-them playing quietly. Maybe I should let them do this more often.

Scripture Challenge

The idea door has these scripture cards that you can print out and use for fun or for learning. We printed out the Book of Mormon cards and played concentration with them. It was neat because the matches are not matching the exact pictures to each other, they are matching the elements of the scripture story to each other. For example, there's a card with sheep on it that matches a card with Ammon on it. There's another card with 16 small clear stones that matches the card with the brother of Jared on it. It was fun. I let them see if they could match them together without my help and they got them all! I guess our Book of Mormon reading each night is paying off.

Click on the picture below for the link to the cards. It's called "Scripture Challenge"