6 kids for 12 Days

For the last 12 days we have been extra busy because we have been watching our 6 nieces and nephews while Janelle and Garth went on a trip to Peru where Garth served his mission. Many people thought that taking care of six kids would make us not want kids, but it actually makes us want kids more : ) The kids were great and we did a lot of fun things with them like, go to the park, go to the IMAX theatre, watch the water show at Viejas, play baseball, hide-and-seek, and clean. Well, I don't think the kids thought that cleaning was that much fun, but Casey and I really enjoyed helping out Janelle and Garth. They are home now and brought us cool presents and took great pictures (look on Janelle's site), and we were just glad that we were able to spend some extra special time with the kids before we head back to Provo.

Every day the kids got to open a present from Garth and Janelle that had to do with their trip. This was Day 1's present: games.

1/2 Day. Garth and Janelle had been gone 6 of the 12 days, so we celebrated with a special half day dinner and a package from Mama and Papa (my parents). We had 1/2 cheese and 1/2 pepperoni french bread pizza, peach halves, 1/2 gallon of juice, and the treats from the package for dessert.
After dinner fun. Watching sea animals grow to more than 1/2 their size : )

Hide-and-Seek. It took a while for the kids to find Casey.

Trevon doesn't like what he just ate. Can you tell? : ) They were dried Inca berries and they can be a little sour.

The kids in their BYU shirts. I have owed Casey this picture for four months, and we finally found Starlee's shirt, so here it is.

The kids were so good while we went grocery shopping that I treated them to TWO rides on the carousel. They think this ride is like the best thing ever. You can tell by their faces how happy they are : )