Since Dad was Away it was Time to Play

I will have to admit that hunting season is one of my least favorite times of year. I know that this is something Chris loves to do but it means another weekend without dad around and kids bouncing of the walls because they know mom is tired and dad is not coming home anytime soon. So this weekend I decided to take a different approach and have a little fun with the kids. It was so much better then sitting at the house thinking about how much I hated hunting season. On Friday Kelly and I took the kids to the zoo it was the best day the weather was perfect and the kids had the best time looking at all the animals. After the zoo we ended up at Kelly's mother in laws house where we ate dinner and then ended up staying the night. The kids loved it altogether there were 11 kids and 5 adults they had so much fun playing and watching movies. On Saturday we packed up and headed down to Payson to stay at Robert and Lisa's for the night. We had a couple craft projects for the kids to do and then they just spent the rest of the time running around having fun together.



Payton would not go anywhere near the animals to take a picture. She loves to look at the animals but she wants nothing else to do with them and it doesn't matter if they are real or not.




Aubrey was laying on the floor and Jaxson was tickling her tummy and talking to her she was giggling at him so loud it was so cute to watch them interact.



These are the button flowers that the kids made this kept them busy for awhile they had fun picking out which buttons they wanted to use and then putting them on the wire. When they were done Lisa had a little vase for each of them to put their flowers in.


The things in the back of the flowers are the ghosts that we tried to make with the kids this project did not go as well as we had hoped. Once we got the mixture of glue and water and set it in front of the kids it turned into a total disaster we ended up having to quit that project and move on to something else. Lisa finished them while the kids worked on something different and they actually turned out pretty good.



This is what happens when Payton decides she does not like what you have given her to eat she either plays in it on her tray or just throws it directly onto the floor she is so fun. I guess it is her way of telling us to stick to the things that she likes.



It was a fun weekend with the kids and we have decided that we are going to have to do this every year from now on it makes the time go by so much faster.