Mid-summer

 Last Sunday was Father's Day. All Jacob wanted was "Dinosaur Poop Cookies" aka no-bake cookies, so we made him a batch. 

We also got him a new computer monitor like he's talked about wanting a few times. Actually we got us all a bigger TV that fits in our new entertainment center, and moved our old TV to be the computer monitor. Jacob was out of town the week before for work, so he came home to our updated screen. He also got a puzzle with pictures from our San Diego trip. Happy Father's Day! You're the best dad and deserve all the cookies! :) 

The kids have been really into a show on Disney Plus called Gravity Falls lately. Rachel has gotten to be an expert at drawing the Gravity Falls characters and all the kids enjoy the Gravity Falls books they check out from the library. Apparently there are lots of things to decipher and discover, so they read them over and over again.

Last week all the kids except Rachel went to cooking camp. Megan's was in the morning while the other kids were at swimming, then the others would go to cooking camp after lunch. They had a different focus each day: breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner, and dessert. All were great and the kids look forward to using their new skills to cook some tasty stuff over the next few weeks. 

Megan and her donuts: 

The older kids made cinnamon donuts, which were also very tasty.

This was the cutest thing of the whole week:

Beach Party Jell-O. Megan loved it so much she's making them for her birthday party this week.

Since she loves donuts and pandas, we combined them into a donut panda pool party. 

The plan is for the cake to have donuts around the edge decorated to look like pandas.

Rachel was invited to tag along on a baptism trip to the temple on Thursday--the best way to go to the temple is with friends. They stopped at Eegees on the way home and really enjoyed the outing. 

So much so that they got back together that afternoon and hung out at Sara's house until late into the night. Two days later Rachel got to go back to the temple with the YW. Lucky duck.

Lucky for us, last week they announced our temple was opening for Phase 3! Yay! So Jacob and I have our first temple date in over a year to do sealings this Friday before the temple shuts down for 2 weeks for cleaning. Then we'll do an endowment session towards the end of July. It's so nice to have things moving along getting back to normal.