Stay At Home Saturday Fun

It was so nice to sleep in this morning & wake up naturally instead of having to get up b/c of an alarm. We had breakfast and then put the kids to work doing Saturday chores. They swept, vacuumed, and loaded the dishwasher.

After helping & supervising w/ all of that, I laid down on the couch for a moment and within 30 seconds I had Jackson jumping on my stomach, Autumn sitting on my bladder, and Adam trying to get in the middle of it all. LOL! I love being an aunt to boys.

We were trying to decide what to do for the day, and the thought of having to pack everyone up to go to a water park just made all us adults tired. So, we decided to just have some fun at home. Jon set up this slip-n-slide for the kids w/ the sprinkler on it and they played on that thing for at least an hour! I think it’s so good for kids to get time outside to be screen free and learn to use their imaginations and entertain themselves. After that, they moved the sprinkler under the trampoline and played for another 30 minutes on the trampoline.

The natives were getting hungry, so we threw together a quick lunch of “cleaning out the fridge leftovers.” They loved it and were so happy they got to eat outside at the patio table.

After all the fun and sun and excitement, it was quiet/relaxation time. We put Adam down for a nap and Lexie got out her Jamberry stuff. She’s hosting an online Facebook party and wanted to show me how easy they are. She put some blue & white stripped ones on Jackson’s big toes and he loved it! Then she put some purple ones w/ silver dots on hers, mine, and Autumn’s big toes so we’d match.

Jon got home from some Scout training he had to go to, and Adam hadn’t woken up from his nap yet so Lexie & I took the older kids to their community pool to swim. I’ve only been swimming a few times this year (so unlike me), so it felt great to be in the water and swim around and have fun playing w/ the kids.

We finally packed up and headed home when some dark storm clouds came rolling in and it got really windy. Jon grilled some hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner, which hit the spot. After dinner Lexie said she had a fun game to play w/ the kids. She got out this bag of flavored marshmallows and the kids came running. They pretend to be puppies and she feeds them marshmallows just like you would feed a dog a doggie treat! I couldn’t believe how excited the kids were to do this!

They played this game for over an hour! Lexie had them do different tricks like balancing a treat on their forehead and then trying to catch it in their mouth. She also had them “roll over,” “play dead,” “shake hands,” etc. The kids were eating it up (pun intended).

Miss Donna came over and we had family game night. We paired one each of the kids w/ an adult so we had 4 teams.

We decided to play a fun game called “Quelf.” Andrew & I got to be Queen Spatula. Jon said I look like her, but I think she looks like a drag queen. This game is so random & quirky and we were laughing so hard at some of the stuff we had to do. For example, anytime someone rolled a 4 Jon & Jackson had to stand up and pretend to be a weeping willow and hum music to a sad song of their choosing. Andrew & I ended up winning. We put Adam & Jackson to bed and let Andrew & Autumn stay up to play a few rounds of Apples to Apples. Then we put them to bed and just stayed up and talked for a while before calling it a night.