Make Doughnuts with Mallory: CHECK!

When I wrote it, I figured it was the boys saying "make doughnuts with Mallory" but apparently it was from my bucket list as Easton and Dalton played the Wii while I baked with Mallory and her sister:


It was fun and the girls were so excited and complimentary and appreciative...and messy. Oh my!


Autumn hung with us girls...she had powdered sugar on top of her head.


The boys joined us for the eating of some at the end:


But they'd spent plenty of time playing with the girls before we made doughnuts. Mallory doesn't ever want to separate from Easton. If they're at church (or VBS) she wants to come over after or have Easton over there. If Easton's over there or she's over here she wants to keep staying and asked if Easton could just stay there forever. :)

They're pretty darn cute together. One day of VBS I had to be with Dalton at swimming lessons. Easton chose to go to VBS instead that day so I'd asked if Mallory's family could take E home with them (a first for us all!). They were all too happy to help. In fact, they asked if they could have him for lunch.

But they didn't just give him lunch...they had an experience. Apparently the night before, Mallory and McKenna set up a table for two. They'd covered it with a blanket for a tablecloth. McKenna made a menu and set up a "velvet rope" (a streamer) and the 6 year olds had to make reservations but she called them RSVPs. :) They picked up a pizza on their way home from the church and then E and Mal sat at their little table and McKenna took their order and wrote it down. So cute! Easton had pizza and fruit and chocolate milk. He was still sitting there eating when I arrived to pick him up.

Anyway...

Last Thursday we did another fun activity that wasn't actually on our bucket list but sure could've been. Right before I went on bedrest with Autumn's pregnancy we made ice cream in a bag with the boys. We hadn't made it since then. Then I got this bright idea to make it again and "shake" the bags by jumping on the trampoline.



We put one of the bags in an old oatmeal container if you're wondering what that's about (Jason asked).






It didn't go as super as I'd imagined in my head and by the end I was inside shaking the bags myself and the kids were playing "hockey" on the tramp with all the ice cubes that fell out when a bag broke but still, we had delicious homemade ice cream for dessert that night:




By the way, I'm fairly certain we're not going to finish our bucket list by the time E starts school a week from today. Maybe I'll try my best and file an extension through the end of "summer" as in, Labor Day Weekend. We shall see....