Sleepover

Last Friday, my good friend Jen Lundquist and I planned to spend the day together with all our kiddos. My kids are constantly asking when they can see Kael and Elli (and Blake is now asking when he can see Beckham!) so Jen and I have been trying to plan ahead and get a few dates on the calendar since we live about an hour and half away from each other. I think my kids are going through Lundquist withdrawal also because we didn't go on a vacation with them this year and my kids, even after a week together, could not get enough of their friends (which I am so thankful for!) Elli and Sadie have been bugging Jen and I about having a sleepover and thankfully Jen and I are on the same page about sleepovers--neither of us are crazy about them and have never let our kids have one (for several reasons). But these two precious girlies wore us down and we caved in--on several conditions!! We both talked to the kids about it and my kids were ecstatic, but Wyatt only wanted to do it if Kael could stay at our house. (I am thankful that he realizes he wouldn't like sleeping at someone else's house without his parents there, or else Jen or I could have been driving late at night across the cities to exchange kids!) But the kids thought it would be fun to have the boys and girls separate (as opposed to all at our house). So after we all hung out that morning, Jen took the girls back to their house and I took Kael and Wyatt to our house. When we were leaving each other after lunch, Jen looked at me and said, "I think you may have gotten the easier end of this deal!" And she was right! But she had a great time with the girls and they obviously had a lot of fun!!

As Jen wrote on her blog:These girls are about as silly as come be. They've dressed up in a princess and monkey costume, then switched costumes, played baby upstairs, played baby downstairs, put together a princess puzzle, asked for a snack (despite eating lunch approximately two hours prior), played chutes and ladders,and of course posed for my pictures to capture the darling girls' FIRST sleepover. It takes a lot of ideas to keep these girls occupied! 

After some Slip 'N Slide fun, dinner, and a quick shower, Jen put the girls to bed and let them watch a movie in bed!! Sadie is still talking about this! And they watched The Bee Movie, which we had not seen but Jen and I are both pretty particular about what we let our kids watch, so I knew it had to be good! And we watched it as a family yesterday and boy was it funny!

Beckham wants to join in!

Back at our house, the boys played every sport imaginable from the time we got home until dinner. Knee hockey, football, baseball, tennis, street hockey and a few others that I didn't recognize as real sports but involved some type of ball! I had to take this picture and send it to Jen since they are big Viking fans (Kael put it on himself without any prompting from us--I think he just wants to know what it's like to cheer for a SuperBowl Champion!)

The boys were so busy playing that I couldn't take many pictures....I took this one because I was so impressed with the game they came up with. The pitchback was located off to the right and they pretended it was the hitter. Kael was the pitcher and Wyatt was 1st base (they took turns between the two). Kael would pitch it to the pitchback and then they would play it like a live ball and try and get the guy out at 1st---they had such a great time and made me wish Wyatt had someone to play like this with him more often. Guess we will just have to have Kael sleepover more often. After dinner, Matt took the boys to get some ice cream down by the river and then came home to watch the Twins game on TV. They had so much fun, everyone slept great and we are excited for the possibility of another sleepover sometime in the future!

Breakfast in the morning out on the deck....fresh, hot croissants from Williams Sonoma (ok, these were for me but I had to share and they lived up to the hype!!) and some waffles.