Pancakes and Parties

 I've been doing German Pancakes on Wednesday mornings...it shakes things up a bit from waffles or pancakes, etc, so I found this fun little idea on pinterest. You just pour the pancake batter into muffin tins and have mini German Pancakes. We cut up strawberries and sprinkled them with powdered sugar. They were good. Next time, I'll just let the fruit and sugar sit a bit until it gets juice and then top them.

 Cole helping make molasses cookies, these are some of Kevin's favorite for some reason. They made a ton, so we kept a few for ourselves and took the rest to people in our neighborhood.

 This is a little girl in our neighborhood. Her parents went to a wedding last night so we got to keep her for a few hours. She was so much fun. We had played with her a lot at the neighborhood pool over the summer, but it was nice to have her all to ourselves for a night. She had a great time digging through the kids tableware drawer! (Her parents are the ones that hosted the big adult Halloween Party a few posts earlier.)

It was Saydria's turn to host a girls movie party last night. She invited a few neighbor girls and they watched Judy Moody. We made homemade pizzas, popped some popcorn in the machine and some of the girls brought treats to share. They had such a fun time. All of our kids have been taking turns hosting movie nights for the last 4 Friday nights, so it's been fun for them to have a night to call their own with their friends. (Although one of the girls had a little sister that was Kai's age, so she stayed and hung out with Kai. It seems like we have something similar with every party!)  :)