Birthday Fun!

The birthday festivities started on Saturday. Emma had a couple of friends over and we all went to Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D. After the movie, which everyone enjoyed very much, we headed back home for presents and cupcakes.

That evening we went to the Pizza Factory for dinner. The kids were most excited about the garlic twist bread.

Sunday morning Emma went to the church for her baptism interview with the bishop. She seemed kind of nervous about it so we'd talked to her about what the questions were and that it would be very easy. But Josh and I were both worried, not that she wouldn't be able to be baptized, but just that she wouldn't say anything to the bishop at all. She refuses to shake his hand let alone talk to him. So we were amazed when she did just great. As soon as she got home she said, "That was so easy!

Monday we had a family party where she opened her presents and then after ballet class and dinner we had cake and ice cream.

Happy Birthday Emma!

Today is Emma's 8th birthday! She is such a sweet girl and a good helper. We love having her in our family. Emma loves to be silly and can always be counted on to make others laugh.

Fun Skate Night

Last night we all went skating......actually I should say scootering? scooting? Julia's orthodontist office had a free skate night and she could bring a friend so she invited McKenna to come along. We had been to this place once before for a free school night but it was packed then and only the skating was free. This time the bounce around area and laser tag were included and there actually weren't a lot of people there so it was more fun and less stressful. The kids went back and forth between the bouncing and the skating. Katie actually seemed to prefer being on her scooter and did much better at it than Josh and I expected. It made for a late school night getting the kids to bed but I think it was worth it. I think the kids agree.

10 Digit Dialing

There is going to be a new area code in Utah so starting March 1st we had to start dialing 801 for all local calls. You need to call your next door neighbor? You must dial 801 first. How about your husband at work? 801 first. We actually weren't sure when the change was happening and Julia had a lens come out of her glasses so I was panicking and called Josh to ask if we had any screws for eyeglasses around. It just beeped at me and said I must dial the area code first. I changed over the speed dial numbers on our phone for people we call the most but there are still a lot of people we would call but not on a regular enough basis to put them in our phone. I call a lot of people through my church calling and last week had to keep reminding myself to use the area code. It would be nice if you could plug your cell phone into your computer and download the ward list.
Matthew's teacher is up to speed. This last week they were working on learning their phone numbers and she made sure to teach them the area code as well. I doubt a year or two ago they would've bothered to do that. It will be interesting once she has students with two different area codes. At the end of the month they will start assigning people numbers with the new area code.