We've had a busy and eventful week - well, really weekend - the rest of the week was mostly just the normal amount of busy. But starting Friday, things really got crazy - Friday night, Eileen had her slumber party - she had 5 friends come and we made little pizzas and they watched a movie before we 'sent them to bed' 2 had to go home before the slumber part - but the rest of them didn't sleep until very late! But they had fun and no one wanted to go home after. Saturday morning, Dan took Anna and went to clean the church building and got back in time to help me set of for our Primary Teacher Instruction meeting. The slumber party girls were getting picked up right as people were showing up for our meeting. Attendance was low, but the spirit was very strong and the meeting was wonderful!
During the meeting, Dan took the kids outside to rake leaves - and they made a nest. A giant leaf nest. They had a blast and were covered in leaves for the rest of the day.
And I had some fun getting some fun fall pictures - Evie is so funny - this picture was kinda accidental, but the lighting really looks nice.
This is Anna in the nest - hard to believe - but they had a bunch of sweaters and coats on the bottom of the nest.....
This is Aaron pretending to be a bird leaving the nest.
After, we went to Dwayne and Nicole's house for Riley's birthday - the kids had a blast watching Despicable Me and then beating up a minion pinata.
We finally finished our night of insanity with the ward Chili Cook off and Talent Show. Dan brought his balloon animal making skills and was the hit of the party - he spent the first 45 minutes making balloon animals and hats, then the kids tried coming back for seconds!
For the talent portion of the contest, Eileen played Book of Momon Stories on the piano - from memory. She was so cute!!!! She got distracted by James part way through and lost her place - but she still did a great job!
After that, even a Sunday full of meetings and crazy kids wasn't so bad - James did better in Sacrament this week - he sat quietly in my lap for almost half the meeting. After church, he was a super duper helper - he is getting so good at following instructions and communicating his needs. He loves books and finding pictures of things he recognizes in books - he gets very excited over balls, cats, bears, dogs, horses, birds and water - and the picture only has to vaguely look like one of those things for him to get excited about it. In this picture, he's reading one of his favorite books - the one with a ball on the front (it's a pictures of Earth)
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