Sister Sanity!

Even though Jay had to leave the day before Thanksgiving, we managed to have a great day. We did have "Thanksgiving" the night before he left on his deployment. It was wonderful food. And it was so nice on Thanksgiving day to have just have leftovers and not have to stress about cooking. :>



It was so great having Elizabeth and the girls here. They were a great distraction and so much fun. It was really hard having them leave us today. We did try to talk them into staying with us, but no such luck. I think that Elizabeth may have found 8 kids a bit overwhelming. LOL. It was so good for them all to have the fun and distraction of each other.

I could not believe how fast the time went by. Luckily, having her around we got a lot done. The kids played, did crafts, ran around, made messes, and got us mommies up before the sun was even up. (little stink pots) We all went to see the the new 3-D Bolt movie. We were lucky that our friends Lauren and Phil once again stepped in and helped out. It was a little crazy at the movies, but no spilled drinks so that is excellent!! Since Lauren and Phil love my kids as much as my kids love them they came back and sat with the kids so that Elizabeth and I were able to get out to an adult movie. That was awesome and so fun.

While Elizabeth was here the twins, found all the Christmas presents. And I do mean all of them. Now this really is quite a feat as the closet itself is used only for storage and in order to unlock it they had to stack several bins to reach the key that was on the board above the door, and then use it to unlock the door. The key is one of those that is just a straight pin like thing and you have to hit the unlocking mechanism just right or it will not unlock. I struggle sometimes to get into this closet. But not my identical boys. (I am convinced that these two very spirited boys are a result of a MIL curse to Jay that he would get kids as fun and mischievous as him. Becuase we all know I was an angel. LOL.) So being the mean mom that I am I told them that I took all the presents back and if they were good I would consider buying some new ones. We emptied the closet after dark and wrapped them all. We showed the kids the empty closet and I have them hidden away behind many things so finding them this time should take at least three more weeks and then I am in the clear. :>

I also had another "mean" mommy moment. I got a call last week (just as we are heading into Thanksgiving vacation) that the Tanner and Hunter had gotten written up on the bus for being too physical with each other and not sitting on the bus. Which means, of course that they can be kicked off for the rest of the year. Okay, that would not be bad if all I had to do was drive up into the same circle I drop them off at in the morning. But it is not that easy. I would have to drag all the kids to the school, unload, go into the gym stand in the 1st grade line to show ID and sign out Hunter. Get into the 2nd grade line show ID and sign out Tanner and then go back outside, load back up and drive home. Well, that would get very old very fast. So I had them walk to school to see what it would be like. Now in order for that to happen I had to follow them in the car (I was not going to walk that far, I was not bad on the bus) which means no short cuts. After they had walked for an hour and gone 2.5 miles I let them get in and we drove the rest of the way 3.9 total miles. Every few minutes I would ask them if we were there yet, until we got to the school. I hope they got the point. :>

It was also so cute this morning as Elizabeth and the girls were getting ready to leave that Jayson and Nathan were so very sad and kept telling Aunt Elizabeth they were going to miss her. Then Tanner told me that we needed go to Utah for Christmas so we could see everyone. And after leaving the airport without them Bryan kept telling me that we needed to go back and get them again. I love that they love to have family around!!! So cute, at least they were not kicking them out the door.

Well, my friends have a great day!!!