This weekend

Ken's coming on Friday with his kids. We haven't told my kids. We're gonna surprise them. They've been at their dad's since Sunday morning so it's been pretty quiet around here. They'll be home tonight though. (There goes the peace...lol)

Tonight, while I was visiting teaching, I was telling the lady I visit that I need to get my house all cleaned and organized before Friday. She wanted to know why, she reminded me it'll just be all crazy and unorganized as soon as they get here with eight of us in this house. She said I should wait until after they go home and clean up then. I know that's totally logical thinking and I wish I could do it, but it's one of those crazy woman guilt things. I'd feel crappy if Ken came home and the floor wasn't mopped and the house wasn't all cleaned. Maybe that should be a new goal (lol) to not care if my house is a mess when Ken comes :)

Caleb the Tech Man

Caleb had a blast yesterday helping run the lightboard for a dress rehearsal of a play. He got to make lightning on stage and everything. He loved it! I guess he did a pretty good job too, other than chit-chatting on the headset when other people were trying to hear what was going on :) The kids love going to work with me and doing cool stuff. He even got to go down a spiral staircase to underneath the stage and come up the trap door... I've never even got to do that.

Cousins

My sister Janelle was in town yesterday, so we decided to get a pic of all the cousins together.

Here they are 2 years ago:

And here they are now:

It's funny, they're in the same order on the couch and it wasn't even planned. It must just be the way they naturally like to sit :)

Pioneer Activity at the Covey Center

Kooky Alyssa... and Nina trying to steal the spotlight
Nina and her penny candies
Silly Lou
Oddball pioneer children
Here they are again
Me :)

Pioneer Day

I love the pioneers. I have such appreciation and love for them, for their faith and the trials they went through. To celebrate pioneer day we went to This is the Place Heritage Park. We used to volunteer there once a week for a summer & the kids loved it. We try to go back at least once a year. We bought a membership this time, so we can come back when Ken is here with his kids in a couple of weeks, and then we can go again the beginning of next summer. Ken's sisters are here visiting and they went with us, along with my brother Brian, my sister BJ and her son Gabe.