School's Out for Summer!

Thursday, I came up with the idea to have a party to celebrate the end of the school year.  I contacted all of our kids, and wonder of wonders, everyone was available to come on Friday afternoon.    I made Robynn's delicious Chex party mix, that we all love,  my friend Sherryl's yummy dip, and crackers, cut up a watermelon, bought some ice cream and cones and called it a party.

I had seen this fun splash pad at Sam's club a few weeks before, and ran and bought it.

They launched off the swing and trapeze into the pool.

The kids had lots of fun playing badminton, 

I did have to get on the roof and get 2 birdies out of the rain gutters.

How many grandkids can you fit on one trampoline???

Savannah took a nap during most of the party, but did get to play in the splash pad for a few minutes.

What a great invention self filling water balloons are!

The weather was perfect, and the kids ended up getting out the snow cone machine and making snow cones to cool off before they headed home. What a fun afternoon!

 

Mothers Day

It's so sad to think that it's been 7 years, since my mom passed away.  She was such a great influence on who I am.  She was a wonderful mom, and a great example to me.  I sure miss her.

Mike's mom is at the point, where she doesn't want gifts, so I try to think of things I can do to help her.  Her backyard is mostly a brick, with plants all around it.  In between the bricks, weeds had grown like CRAZY.  It looked pretty sad.  I spent the afternoon, weeding and cleaning her patio furniture. 

 It looked so much better!

Friday afternoon, Jamie called to see if I could tend Kelsi and Oliver. Molly was babysitting someone else's kids, and  Abi was at a friends house.  It's so fun to be able to tend again!   We made breakfast for dinner and had a great time playing games with these two.

Saturday, most of our kids went to Lagoon, Savannah is a little short to ride the rides, so we got to play with her.  We took her to visit Grandma Cline.  She hadn't seen her since she was tiny. 

Savvy is just the right size to push Mom's cute buggy.

Since we had gotten together last weekend for dinner, I told the kids they were welcome to do dinner with their mother in laws.  Krista invited Matt's family for dinner and had a fun celebration there.  Emily's mom ended up being out of town, Jamie's mom is in California and Merijane's family celebrated another day, so Jordan invited us to his house for dinner.  Jack ended up with a cough, so Josh's family didn't come, but Jamie and Emily still came, and we had a great time.  

1st Family Dinner at our house in over a year

It has been FOREVER since everyone has been to our house for dinner.  

It was so fun setting up and getting ready for them to come.

All 10 of our girls and our 4 boys.

All our kids!  (Jamie's stripped shirt is all I got of him.😂)

It was so fun to be together.  The adults sat at the table the entire night and visited while the kids played outside and inside.

 

Middle's Sleepover

Last Friday, we had these cute girls for a sleepover.  We stopped on the way home from picking them up, and bought us all shakes and took one to Grandma Cline and enjoyed visiting with her.

They decided they wanted breakfast for dinner, so we made Crepes with strawberries and whipped cream,, bacon, hash browns and juice.

Aida brought a ton of fun games and we loved playing them together.

For breakfast, they made delicious cinnamon biscuits, yummmmm!

I asked Mike if he would do an art project with them, since they all love art.  

He decided to do a wire sculpture, so they are cleaning their wire while swinging.

They all wanted to make a butterfly.

They turned out so cute.

We walked over to JoAnn's and bought some pots to put them in.

We added some succulents and they were very happy with theirs.

Abi  and Molly had a track meet in American Fork, so we finished the fun watching them run.