Happy Birthday Dad!

Yesterday was my dad's birthday and my mom thought it would be fun to surprise him with a dinner at Rodrigo's. The food was yummy and it was fun to be together. We just hope it was a good surprise. I LOVE that the cousins like to be together! Here are Maelen and Emily hamming it up for the camera. Here is our traditional birthday picture. Luckily we were in a room big enough to accomodate our picture and closed off enough so as not to annoy other diners too much.

The Unity Tree

Kendall told me last week that the first grade would be putting on a play the following Wednesday night. My first response was to freak out - how can we go when Jared has baseball and scouts and Maelen has Young Women and it is Ward Temple Day? There is just too much going on! That night when Kendall said her prayers, she said "Please bless that we can be less busy next Wednesday so we can go to my play". After that, how could we not go? We rearranged our schedules and went to learn about unity through a play about cats and dogs getting along. Grandpa and Grandma even closed down the family history center to go support Kendall!! She did a great job and is getting a little less shy in public. Yea Kendall!!

FHE

Last Monday we were able to have Family Home Evening with Mom and Dad. Matt was out of town for work so we did all the things we can't do when he is here. We went to Souplantation for dinner and then went back to our house to play Apples to Apples. Don't get me wrong - Matt would do these things if we asked him, but these are not a few of his favorite things. The kids were in heaven in a restaurant where they can pick exactly what the want. Apples to Apples always gets us laughing. Kendall loves it because she loves games she can actually play, although we noticed she was picking out her card even before the description was read!! Apparently that is a good strategy because she won. Thanks Mom and Dad for sharing our FHE with us!