Sultan Trip November 2012

I was a very lucky girl this past weekend because I got to go back home for a few days to visit my family!  Jeff stayed home with Max and Ivy, and Scarlet and I took off for a long weekend in the woods.  I desperately wanted my Grandma to meet Scarlet, and I needed to visit with her again...and lucky me, 2 of my siblings live close to my parents, now...and the other one flew in for the week at the same time.  It was a perfect weekend!

Scarlet got some time with Mar Mar (my cute mom)

 and some cute cousins (Clara, Adee and Scarlet)

 and some more cute cousins (Clara, Sydney,Scarlet, Carson, Carter and Samantha)

and even more cute cousins: (Carter/Batman, Carson, Sydney, Adee, Scarlet, Clara, Baker, Kimball and Samantha)  We were only missing Max and Ivy...sad!  and they were missed by all!

 We spent some time with Boo Boo (my amazing Grandma)

 and took a few important pictures:

 and of course, no trip to my parents house would be complete without doing Chores with Paw Paw.

All the kids LOVE to do Chores!  No one can wait until Paw Paw gets home from work to take all the Grandkids out to feed the animals...3 Llamas, 2 Cows, 1 Dog, 1 Cat, 4 Chickens.  Scarlet got alone time with Paw Paw on Sunday after everyone had left to do chores on her own...no other kids has been this lucky!  I bundled her up, and she got to watch the llamas eat

Pet OllieBurger the cow

and talk to Chones the llama

 lucky girl!

I'm so grateful I got to go and spend time with some of my most favorite people in the world!  I only wished the rest of my kiddos and Jeff could have come, too!

I love my family!  I'm a pretty lucky girl.

Official Milestone alert: Cucumbers

If you know my kids...you know they love cucumbers!

Scarlet was inducted into the Mousser Cucumber Eater Hall of Fame last week...

 and she loved it!  

Just thought we'd share with the world this official milestone!

Park Hoppers 11/12

A couple of weekends ago, we had a long weekend...

For Jillonnie and I, Saturdays are sort of a dreaded day.  Neither of us have a husband on Saturdays, you definitely DON'T go to the beach on Saturdays {everyone else and their dog goes on Satuday} and we pretty much have all the kids home all day = not-our-favorite-day-of-the-week!

So, Saturday, we Park Hopped!

So fun!

We drew a map: {so they knew what our next stop was...and so they could guess on the way there}

 When we arrived, we set the timer for 20 minutes.  We jumped out of the car, and played like crazy at the park for 20 minutes.  When the timer went off, we all jumped in the car as fast as we could...some of us are slower than others...and sped off to the next park on our map.  

GENIUS!

We Played...

 ...and played...

 ...and played...

 ...and played...

 ...and played...

 ...and played...

 ...until well past the normal dinner time!  

I loved this Saturday!

ps...there are a jillion parks to choose from around our house, so, it only took a few minutes in between each park.  Next time, we'll hit different parks!

We saw friends from school along the way, and picked up some more hoppers at a few parks that wanted to play with us longer!