A Beautiful Saturday in Arizona

We had stayed up until 2am talking before going to bed. Angie did not get the memo to sleep in and woke up at 6am to eat and would not go to sleep. Thankfully Karen and Joe let us sleep on their king size bed so there was plenty of room for Angie to play between us while we tried to sleep in. Finally at 8am she fell back asleep. This is what I found when I got up at 9am so cute.

Grandma Kathy and Uncle Joe had to work so myself, Andy, Aunt Kendra, Uncle Brian and Aunt Karen rounded up all 6 kids and went to the outlet mall so the kids could play and we could do a little shopping. We also met Brian and Kendra's friends there who had thrown the party for Brian the night before.

Angie hanging with Daddy.

After the outlet mall the boys (meaning Andy, Brian and Eric) decided they wanted to go off shooting and doing big boy stuff instead of going to the Baskin Robins opening celebration with us. We said we would be okay without them, what were we thinking. So us four adults headed to Baskin Robins with 8 kids!!!!!!!!

Everyone got a balloon. Her is Zoey with hers. You can still see the temporary tattoos on Zoey from the night before.

Abbie got a blue one too.

They actually stood still for a moment to watch the balloon making.

Ryan showed his balloon sword to Angie who wanted to explore it with her #1 finger.

Zoey was also so kind as to show Angie her balloon.

Renee got an orange balloon.

Kaylee got a blue balloon.

Then it was time for ICE CREAM!

Ryan enjoying his florescent colored ice cream with his friend.

The twins trying to figure out how many times they can drop their ice cream on the floor.

Kaylee showing off her ice cream. Needless to say after trying to keep everyone from getting into everything, not running into the parking lot, steal the clowns tip jar, cut in line for face painting, dropping their ice cream, or getting kidnapped we were exhausted. It was fun but seriously I don't know how you guys do it? Thankfully Ryan went to his friends house to play, Kendra went home with Abbie and Zoey for some quiet time, and Karen & I took the twins home for a nap. Karen went down for a nap but unfortunately Angie was not ready for a nap at that moment so no nap for me. At least I was able to sit down for a little while before the next big party.

Then we had a casual family get together at Karen's with Grandma and Grandpa Ray. I lament the fact that I was too exhausted at the moment to get out the camera and did not get any pictures with Grandma and Grandpa Ray. I would love copies if anyone has any. Joe brought home some Robin's Eggs and Karen and I used them as lipstick.

Angie was super happy to play with her cousins once she woke up from her nap.

Is it spiderman?

No it is Kaylee dressed up.


Ring around the Rosie.

After a long day we had some very dirty children so we threw them all in the tub. This is when many melt downs happened as you can see from the pictures. They as well as we were exhausted.

Rub a dub dub how many kids can fit in a tub? Six!

Angie go a bit overwhelmed by the end. Maybe it had to to with the kids being obsessed with dumping water on her head. They all were very concerned about her crying though.

Grandma Kathy came by after work and the kids were in bed. We wrangled her into staying up late and playing a game with us.

Really an elephant???

Once Grandma Kathy got worn out and went home we broke out the trusty Rock Band of coarse. I have more videos to upload from this day but I am having a difficult time getting it to work. So stay tuned for any updates.