We had a great weekend with my family!  Doug and Larissa blessed their little Tommy in the Hatch ward and spoke.  They did a great job!  It was great just to get together. 
     After dinner my mom decided that the kids needed to go with her to the church to practice a song to sing along with Doug and Larissa's speeches.  Somehow Oak kept setting off a car alarm.  He did it three different times before she finally just drove away with the horn blaring every few seconds.  She stopped at my Uncle Ben's house to borrow a ball.  He had a few huge balls for the kids to play with.  They were having so much fun rolling around and bouncing them that we had a really hard time pulling them away to practice.  They did practice though and they sounded just fine.

 

     Jamie accompanied them on her violin and she is sounding great!  I was so happy with all of them.  When it was time for us to leave, Oak and Kyler were not ok with leaving.  They wanted to stay and play with the big balls for hours.  When I got counting heads, Oaks and Kylers were nowhere to be seen.  They decided to hide in the coat racks thinking that they would be forgotten and left behind.  Ha ha.  Little do they know that I would never just leave one of them behind.  Anyhow, we left, I believe with mom honking on the way.  (Huxti, Larissa, and I were too cool to be in the car and we walked!) 
     Church was good and the blessing went well.  When it came time to sing the song, Chlo and Lyvia just stood up front and smiled for awhile.  They didn't know the song at all.  Then Lyvia started running around and around the pulpit area.  Huxti grabbed her before she played the organ, but she did shimmy under the piano to get to her mom.  Chlo just continued to stand on her perch and smile. 
     After the meeting, we had a nice lunch with the family.  Jazzerz talked Ben's ear off, and Lyvia giggle goofed under the serving table.  She is cute!  Chlo hung out in the bathroom for most of the dinner and I kept sending the girls in to check on her.  I am still unsure what she was doing, avoiding the pressure to eat her lunch perhaps.  She finally did fix herself a plate of different varieties of chips...and a roll. 
    Back at Mom's Jazzerz was being kind of naughty because she kept trying to start a block fight.  No one really engaged, but she kept toppling towers and hurling blocks...stop Jazz!

     Ryan went right out on the lawn, and had a nap.  He even used Kyler's mitt for a pillow which looked kinda clompy.  I was surprised because he slept that way for hours.  Kids were running to and fro and Kyler and Kaden kept begging him to take them shooting.  He must have needed the rest.  He did finally take the boys and Wamer shooting.  I heard Kyler quickly asking him if he should bring the .22 longs (bullets)  I love Kyler's enthusiastic manner.
     Chlo and Lyvia became great little secret friends.  They ran around and around playing with this and that.  They weren't very good at badminton, and I had to remind Chlo not to hit Grandma's windows with the croquet mallet, but all in all they were just great buddies.  Lyvi called Chloee, Toee.  It was cute!

     Oak and Kyler had a great time too.  When it came time to go home for Kyler, he and Oak hid under the bed thinking that Barry might forget and leave him behind.  Not so, but nice try again.  Later when my mom couldn't find her laptop, it was under the bed, because they took it with them when they hid.  My mom also misplaced her phone thanks to my children.  It was later found in the button box.  All in all just a great weekend.