Busy, Busy, Busy

This week has been just totally insane - it started out quiet enough - just some family time and the normal cleaning and working and piano lessons - including a puppet show by the girls for Family Home Evening, and picking up our boxes of peaches for canning.

Then on Wednesday, the insanity broke loose.  Wednesday, Dan's brother John and his wife Melissa and their 6 kids stopped in for a night on their way back home from Virginia.  The kids all had a blast together - it's always fun to see the kids playing together and their kids are similar in ages to ours.  We had a fun time talking and playing Killer Bunnies, then sadly sent them on their way the next morning.  It was so good to see them again - I love spending time with Dan's family - it's easy to see where Dan gets his awesomeness when I'm around them  :)

Thursday, was Skate City Night for the girls.  I took them to the roller skating rink for skating, pizza, and fun.  we had a fun time together, and thankfully the girls still aren't old enough to feel the need to totally abandon and ignore me.  Eileen even had a friend who wanted to hang out with us - so we all had a fun time together

Friday was the school carnival - I picked up the girls after school, then they did piano practicing and Dan came home early and we all went back to the school for the carnival - the kids enjoyed it - free face painting, some candy and lots of games made for a fun couple hours before we headed home for dinner and bed.  

Aaron was so fun to watch on this bouncy house thing - he was very fast and LOVED it!  He could even get through faster than some of the older kids.  

Saturday started off with Anna and Aaron going to Soccer - they have one hour of practice and one game each week (except next week for labor day)  Eileen will also be playing, on the same team as Anna, but she had a birthday party that we had already RSVP-ed for before we found out when their first practice and game would be.  Then after Soccer and parties, we went back home and Dan and I (with some help from the kids) got the peaches canned - at that point, Dan and I were both about ready to go to bed - fortunately, we had nothing else planned for that day, unfortunately it was only 3pm.....  

The kids had fun putting the peaches in the jars and were very helpful.