Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Welcome Home Jen




Kids making a mess of my flower bed!
Scrub a dub dub...2 little boys in the tub
One tired baby....


My Jenny is home for 10 days!! Yeah! I absolutely love when she gets to come home. She is so far away, and I miss her so very much. She is my twin, and therefore my other half, my heart just aches for her while we are apart. Eric's brother is getting married, and so the Smith family paid for Eric and Jen and the boys to fly home. Life pretty much stands still while she is here, I do absolutely nothing but play with her every day. I don't clean, cook, laundry, go to the grocery store, nothing!! Her first day here was pretty crazy, well for Jill and I anyways. Jen wanted her hair cut and colored for the wedding, so she spent the day in Ash's salon. I watched her 2 kids, Carson, and Brevin. Jill came over with Tan and Hallie and then pretty soon we had 2 neighbor kids join us. Can you say CRAZY!! My house literally looked like a tornado had hit. It was a disaster. But our little ones had so much fun together, it is so sweet to watch them play and laugh and build memories. Thats what life is all about. I have such great memories of growing up with my cousins, and I am grateful Carson will have that same experience. We started off by just playing inside, but it was a beautiful day and pretty soon the kids were begging to go out. So we went outside, and they all went crazy. They pulled every toy out of my garage, as you can see in the pictures they all decided to do a little digging in my flower beds. Not really my favorite thing for them to be doing, but oh well, dirt sweeps up. With 8 kids to watch between the 2 of us, pretty much our only goal was that nobody got hurt. Everything else was fair game, we had a few fights, a few tears and Brevin successfully swallowed a handful of dirt. Other than that we survived. You should have seen our monsters when they were done, Carson and Lance went straight to the tub, they were filthy. You would have thought we had gone camping for days. The babies were so exhausted, that they fell asleep within minutes of their bottles. All in all, it was a great day. Thanks to Jill, for her help...what would I have done without you!

7 comments:

Jill said...

Cute pictures. I was going to blog the same thing, but mine was going to be what a mess all those kids made of your house and outside. I was very proud of you for just sitting back and letting them all have fun. My kids had so much fun Thanks.

Nick said...

Looks like a party! Good for you to just let the kids have fun together! Poor Hallie with all those boys!!! Thats like Mitchell in our family! Not as many girls yet though! I am so glad Jen is here, we will have to get together sometime. I can't believe how big the kids are getting! Time goes by too fast. I am sure you guys are busy, but I will be at my moms this weekend, so let me know when I could stop by or if you are going to Teryls thing! How about I just call you! Talk to you later!

The Mashy Family said...

So this looks like a very fun and eventful day at your house! I kinda think it would have been fun. I am excited that you have jenny home for awhile. It is always good to make memories together. I can sure think of a lot of memories when you guys lived here and we were little. Just thinking about half the stuff we did make me laugh.

TW said...

Okay, I'm back. Loved the new pictures. You may think you are a little uptight about things but, I think you are so kind and calm when the kids are over. Thanks for making us all feel loved and welcomed. You are the best.

Eric and Jenny said...

That is so cute I am glad I am so loved. I am kind of sad I wasn't there, I love getting my hair cut but I love watching all the kids play together. Oh well there will be other opportunities I guess. Thanks so much for watching the boys.

Souli & Ashley said...

I wished I could have been there, but my duties were elsewhere. Thanks for taking good care of my Brev. He love you guys so much. I love having Jen home I miss here too. It just always goes to quickly.

Taylor's mom said...

I love all the pictures. I love how close you are and that your family participates in the blogging! It's so fun to keep up with everyone this way!