Valentine's Weekend

What a fun weekend we had! On Saturday night my mom decided that she would babysit all of the grandkids while the adults went out on their hot dates....WHAT was she THINKING??? That's 15 kids all eight and younger, in one house, and only one adult! Jason was on call for work so we decided to hold off on our date until next weekend so we didn't have to worry if he would be called out or not and so we decided to stay and help with crowd control. Lucky for my mom too, cause it was a little CRAZY!! She really went all out for the kids to have a fun night too. They ordered pizza for dinner, played games in the dark with glow sticks and then went on a walk down the street with them, blew bubbles in the house, decorated sugar cookies, and made Valentines. (She had also planned to have sundaes with all of the toppings, but we ran out of time, which was OK because the kids were on quite a sugar high from all of the cookies with LOADS of frosting and sprinkles. The kids had so much fun and I think the adults did too. I know I'm excited about my upcoming date...

Here are only a few pictures from that night...

Here's Mila trying to get grandma's bird. She gets so excited once she spots it.

Here's where the chaos begins with the glow sticks... They LOVED it!!

These are our pictures from President's Day...

I decided to call my sister early Monday morning to see what they had planned for the day. Her and her friend were taking their kids to Freestone Park to spend the day, so we invited ourselves to join them. We had such a good time. We had a picnic lunch and then bought the kids each a wrist band to ride all of the kiddie rides until their heart was content. They LOVED it! We also took a couple of train rides around the park, and then rode our bikes, fed the ducks, and played on the playground. The weather was so nice and Jason was even able to spend the day with us even though he was still on call.

These rides were more for the little kids, but Carter still had fun.

Here's Leah on the Merry Go Round. She was so excited to finally get to ride it and then when it was her turn to get on, she ran towards the BENCH! Mckenzie and Carter decided to join her.

Mila seemed to have a good time too.

Here Jason finally convinced Leah to ride on a horse and she was TERRIFIED! She had a death grip on the pole and her face looked like she had seen a ghost. She did not enjoy that RIDE!

The kids had some random father pushing them on the tire swing. I don't know who he was, but he was their hero for a LONG TIME!

Here's Leah on her bench AGAIN!!

By the end of the day everyone was SO TIRED!

Thanks Stacey and Amber for letting us crash your party! We had tons of fun!