Sleepovers

Last weekend, the weekend before, even this weekend we've had sleepovers like CRAZY! The kids love them & the more the merrier- I'm getting pretty used to having 5 kids running around my house during the weekend- kind of weird now I've only got two sleeping here tonight.

Last Saturday my neice, Taryn had a cheerleading competition @ the U of M field house. This was a pretty big deal because usually her competitions are out of town so we were actually able to go cheer her on for this one. Well... John & the kids got to go cheer her on, I had to go to work and do a major software upgrade :(. Taryn's team got 3rd place, yay!! I'd say she looks pretty happy here, thanks for sending me this one Dave!

Although I don't have any pictures of the actual evening... we had Kaitlyn, Zachary, & Taryn spend the night with us. The kids had a blast, they ran around our backyard with flashlights for hours scaring themselves... can't remember what we fed them that night, oh yeah- pizza & then John drug two twin mattresses out into our front room, we got the kids situated, & put on the new TinkerBell movie. That movie is great, the kids were all quiet for once (with the exception of John-Robert- of course) and they enjoyed the movie. When they woke up in the morning I cooked them breakfast while John ran up to work. I made a dozen eggs & 16 biscuits- what you see below is the aftermath of that breakfast. John had a little scoop of eggs & one biscuit to eat by the time he got home, the kiddos devoured everything!

The kids played outside forever, we even got some yard work done- cut the bushes, cleaned out the flowerbeds, cut the grass, took down the Halloween lights & decorations - apparently we had been going for the Welcome to the Jungle look... it looked really good last weekend, now a bunch more leaves have fallen & it doesn't look quite as nice or neat. John-Robert had a field trip planned for Monday & Taryn was out of school, so... I let Emma-Rae go spend the night with Taryn & take a day off of school. BAD Mama, I know, but she has only missed one day so far this year so... I thought I'd break the rules a bit. I told her teacher she spent the day with her cousin so I didn't tell a story or anything. Dave sent me this picture of Katherine, Rae, & Taryn - cuties aren't they!

Turns out we met up with them at the mall the next day. Dave took the girls shopping, Emma-Rae had a gift card to spend @ Justice from her b-day then they went to Build-A-Bear. John-Rob & I had coincidentally stopped by the mall after his field trip to get his haircut and pick up another book in the series I was reading. Awesome series by Charlaine Harris- Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Series. This is the series the new HBO show True Blood was based on! I have the entire set (8 of them so far) & after Mr. David & Esha borrow them I'd be happy to loan them to you too.