Labor Day Weekend

I was talking to one of my girl friends and she told me that her kids play night games all the time. I was thinking about how much I use to love night games. I told JJ and Emma about it and that was all it took. JJ had a mission. He and his friend Keith set out to find every available elementary age kid and have them meet in out circle at night fall. I thought that maybe three or four kids would come. I was worried about him getting discouraged and not want to play because he had worked so hard, and no one would show. Well, about 8:30 pm kids started coming and coming and coming. We ended up with about 20-25 kids in our back yard ranging from seventh grade to three years old. It was so awesome to see JJ's hard work pay off. They played Red Rover, Kick the Can, and Cops and Robbers. All of the kids had never heard of Kick the Can so I was outside on a megaphone telling them how to play. I wanted to play so bad. I miss night games. I think JJ and Emma would have died though. I was so happy for JJ, he came in with a smile ear to ear. He had a blast. Hard work payed off.
Playing Night games


This makes me happy and sad. The girls all love to be together, but Elsie is getting so big. She is sitting on the couch just fascinated by her sisters. Or as we call them her sissies.

We went up to my parents on Saturday to watch the Utah game and the byu game. We didn't know that the Utah game was on ABC so we really didn't need to go up there. It was fun to watch it with my Dad and David though. I like to have people cheering for Utah along with me. Jeron kind of does, but then he has to make some rude comment about how they got lucky and stuff like that. In case you don't know the score here it is.

On Sunday after church we headed up to Millcreek Canyon for some R & R. We took Michael with us and I think that the kids loved that. It was fun, we just hung out in the cabin because it rained the whole time. We ate junk the whole time and loved every minute of it. We played speed scrabble, and BS. I will have to say that I rocked at both games. I am such a good liar, it is to bad that is is a sin. Because I have got skill! (I just want you all to know that i think lying is horrible. In fact there is not much else that can make me as mad as a person that lies. No need to worry, I won't take it up or anything.)

It was such a nice night, with the rain and coolness. I love sleeping in the cabin and listening to rain. It was fun to spend some one on one with Michael. It has been a long time since we have done that.




On Monday we had our cousins up and had a breakfast. Due to the cold weather we were not able to invited everyone. We ended up just having the Cracrofts come. They have kind of adopted my kids as cousins, so it only made sense. We had a great time. It actually snowed and hailed buckets. It was insane. If the weather wasn't insane enough, the kids were. They all took hyper pills or something because they were out of control. I loved it. Jeron has never had a big family so for him I think it was crazy. I miss old times with cousins. When you are little there is nothing better then cousins. Even today I still just love my cousins.








When we got home we were so tired. We both took partial naps and then headed to my parents for yummy hamburgers and fries. The kids went hot tubbing and then we had to get home because it was a school night. We had a really fun Labor Day weekend.