The kids had a blast playing outside until dinner. Austin hit his tired wall around 5:30 but made it until a 6:30 bedtime. When Bryce got up from his nap around 5:00 he didn't like that his mommy was holding his cousin and decided to cry at my feet. Well then Austin wouldn't like the crying and would start crying himself which would make Bryce cry even more. Luckily this only lasted about 10 minutes until my superhero husband arrived home from work and occupied Bryce.
It was crazy and noisy but we wouldn't trade it for anything. I got sweet Austin snuggles before bed and it was so heart warming to see our kids with their cousins. Chase took on night time story time...
By Saturday morning I think everyone was a little more use to the situation at hand and life seemed a little more manageable.
We of course never do anything low key. Saturday morning Kevin got up to run in the Hyco Memorial 5K in honor of a local police dog who was killed in the line of duty 2 years ago. So I packed the kids up and we headed over to try to see Kevin finish the race. Well Kevin, being super speedy, finished the race in 23:07 so we missed him at the finish line but there was plenty to see and do. We checked out all the dogs, the band, some venders, and of course the jumping houses.
Bryce is already the ladies man...
Austin snuck in a little morning nap.
The kids really enjoyed the armored vehicle the sheriffs department had out there.
Connor says, "Cheese!".
We went straight from the race to a halloween party that one of the kids in Chase's class was having. The kids had so much fun just playing and playing.
Sorry for the lack of pictures, you have a lot less ability to take pictures when you are holding a 5 month old and chasing a super crazy, fearless 14 month old and making sure the two 3 year olds are safe, not to mention the occasional need of the 7 or 9 year old. And that is even with two sets of hands and lots of other parents helping. It was lots of fun but I snuck out early right around 1:00 to get Austin and Bryce home for a good nap. After a little downtime and some more outside time we got all dressed up to head to my bosses halloween party.
I was the house wife to my Mr. Clean and those are some pretty cute kiddos! We had a ninja, Elsa, a police officer (who said he was arresting Henley but Henley informed him that princesses don't get arrested), a tigger, a puppy dog, and I really don't know what Henley dressed up as. I think she wants to be Elsa like Leah so she passed up the Pop star Minnie outfit we had planned and put on a blue dress. I guess we need to work on that before halloween next week.
Before the party Henley lost her mind so we laid her down for a nap and we had to wake her up after 3 hours and on the way to the party both Connor and Austin passed out.
I think if nothing else we were doing a good job at wearing everyone out. The party was fun with good food, trunk or treating for the kids and they even had a haunted trail.
Connor, Henley, and Chase were super brave, not being afraid of the scary characters. Leah not so much. She takes after her Momma. So after trunk or treating I headed home with everyone except Henley and Chase who stayed to walk through the haunted trail.
It was a fun, exciting, action packed weekend. We loved having Connor and Austin with us and hope their Mom and Dad had a lot of fun too!
