Partying!....I mean Babysitting!

My parents had the awesome opportunity to visit some friends who were serving a mission in Russia. So I had the awesome opportunity to go home to watch Alyssa and the house. Which basically meant I was pretty much on vacation since it was more like hanging out with Alyssa, having a house full of food, and plenty of fun things for the kids. Best of all Shanna also got to come for the latter half of it! So fun!! We had quality cousin time, sewing time, seeing old friends time, and then got to hear all the cool stories about Russia. I would say that is a pretty good time. Here are way too many pictures at random.

 Rylee making the 'cat' sign. To say she loved the cat would be an understatement. 

 Playing in the sand.

 Cade made me and him a party with the play food. Complete with chairs, a cake, and pizza with candy on it.

Rylee got rides in the dump truck. I am not sure who had more fun- Rylee, Cade or Cole! (Cole was there for a few days because of a conference in Ft Worth.)

 At Alyssa football game. She was a darling cheerleader. Oddly enough 8th grade cheerleading is the only activity all 5 Black sister have done that is the same. Cade was really enjoying actually watching the football game and being able to see, somewhat up close, the players get tackled or throw the ball.

 Cousins! We loved sporting dad's car all week!

 

Gathering eggs at the Matheney's house. The kids loved it. Cade was continuously concerned that we were hurting the chicks inside. How do you argue that? I told him some eggs were for eating and some were for chicks to grow. I'll figure out how to tell the truth later.

 Making cookies with Alyssa

 This typified these two the whole week. They would drive these things all over the house together.

 Trying to get a decent grandchildren shot.

 Playing dolls with Aunt Shan

 Rylee loves ducks. Mainly because she knows the sign, can somewhat say the word and loves them in her bath.

 At the park with Julia and Aria. Weird that now we are all moms. We have 8 1/2 kids between all of us!! Crazy!

 Getting Russia from Mimi.

 Cade and Austin looking over their Cars gifts.

 Cade and Austin watching Cars together. They were really excited about it. That is about the only thing similar about these two boys- their love for cars.

If you made it to the end of the post basically we had a blast. Glad mom and dad were safe in their travels. They brought us back nesting dolls (mom used to collect them so all the sisters have fond memories of playing with them) and best of all Cole got a BYU one. Each smaller doll inside is a different football player with his name on the back. I should have a picture up-it is too funny.