Game of Spoons

I did a really good job today across the board. I cleaned the kitchen this morning for a few hours, even pulling out the table and sweeping and mopping under there. I listen to the Book of Mormon while I cleaned. I went on a bike ride, and I didn't over eat today. Those are some of things that, if I do them, make me feel good about the day. Oh, aaaand I prepared a sit down dinner (win) from food storage (win-win) and the kids liked it and couldn't tell (even Abi!). I also had a dessert ready for FHE. It was parfaits using the leftover yogurt pie from Sunday, with extra bananas, whipped cream and ice cream. K and I went to the store earlier today to pick up those three things and to get her ice cream.

I had dinner ready on time at 6, yay, and the desserts were displayed on the counter, but first we had a sit down dinner (go me) and then we played like 5 rounds of spoons, then we decided that the next person to get the 4 cards and grab a spoon got to withdraw from the game and go get their dessert. They were all suddenly highly motivated. Owen won first - 

And of course we gave Katharine her parfait, cause the girls went nuts going for the spoons and Sophi knocked her in the nose. 

Lily won second, then we did one last round and let the kids have at it. Then we had scriptures while I finished loading the dishwasher and cleaned up the kitchen! So the sink was "shined" and we were done with food and scriptures at 8! Which means were done with kids and I have a moment to blog. I am gong to go to the temple tomorrow for 5am initiatories. Last week I wasn't able to go cause this little girl woke up when I was making my escape. 

To prevent that from happening to me again tomorrow morning, I asked Abi if she could get K to sleep with her. Abi said yes, then tried to become K's best friend by painting her nails. K allowed that service to be done, but when A asked her to please sleep with her, she very quickly frowned and said "No. Mommy." So, we'll see how it goes tomorrow morning. 

Yesterday we had Stake Conference. Katharine was really really sad that she didn't have nursery, so after the 2 hour stake meeting, I relented and we went into the nursery to play. The girls went home, Corey visited with friends, and I watched P&K play for 15 min. They were excited about toys like this Castle that was there!

Then I got dinner ready for when the stake missionaries came over. I made a pot of roast beef with carrots and potatoes, broccoli, and Corey made rolls, and then we had 4 yogurt pies. 

We are excited that our missionary is coming home soon! We're on the countdown. We talked to Wes tonight, he said he should find out this week what his release date will be. It is Jan 7 right now, but that is the day school starts for him up at BYUI, so he let his mission president know that and we think they'll let him come home a little early. Hyrum is really excited to have Wesley up there in Rexburg with him.