Happy Birthday Dennis!

Dennis celebrated his birthday a couple weekends ago. Unfortunately, Shaylee and Devin were gone (Shaylee was at Retreat for Girls and Devin was on his first overnight scout camp), so I hired a babysitter (a first for us) and took Dennis to dinner at Chile's and then to the Hale Center Theater in Orem to see Little Women. (Thank heaven for gift certificates and season tickets, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to afford anything!). Anyway, we had a lovely time, but then we wanted to celebrate with the kids, so on Sunday we made fondue (yum!) and homemade rootbeer (I think the kids like making it the best--dry ice is awesome!):



We all enjoyed the fondue, but after two courses (cheese and main dish--meat & vegetables in broth), we were worn out (because we only have one fondue pot and have to wash it between courses), and stuffed to the brim, so we didn't get to our dessert fondue. I did, however, make an angel food cake we were planning to dip in the chocolate/butterscotch fondue, which we decided to eat with strawberries and cream instead.

Since we still had the stuff for the chocolate fondue, we invited our neighbors the McGarry's over last night for dessert and games, and we really enjoyed chocolate/butterscotch fondue with brownies, blonde brownies, and angel food cake.

Of course, Aspen and Connor needed a bath after that--is Connor making the greatest face or what?