Christmas visitors!

We had a great evening, I highly recommend this! We got to steal 4 of my most favorite children in the world and spend a few hours with them last night! Our friends Scott and Joy have 3 incredibly beautiful and bright girls and one busy "all boy" son. Scott and Joy are great friends, Scott is the bishop in the Eastvale Ward and served as a counselor to Russell when he served there as bishop. Joy so funny and darling and is a dynamic and talented momma of her sweet brood, with a business she does from home. So I decided to endulge myself and have these 4 children come over for the evening. We got to have tacos, Carly(7) said she doesn't always like tacos that other people make, but....she loved ours. She told us she liked the shells that Russell cooked up. Carly and Taylor enjoyed our version called "supercrisp", corn tortillas fried crispy with some salt...homemade giant tortilla chips!as well as the meat and the cheese. Taylor (10)also enjoyed the dinner with that great smile on her face! She in an amazing big sister! I made the mistake of telling Sydney (5)that we had a candy game to play later, and she ate a good bit of taco, and wanted the games to begin! Brody sat in the high chair and enjoyed his dinner as well. Whilst trying to wiggle out of the chair as often as he could. Sweet baby! It took me back a few years.

Clearing the table, and an offer from Carly to do dishes, so sweet, and then it was a game of Pete! With a choice of Skittles or M&M's for thier turns.

They were awfully good at this game! Even Skyler had to get in on this action! We realized that we are sorrowfully short of children's games, so a trip to Target solved that, as the girls picked out "Trouble", "Sorry", and Sydney, picked out a few puzzles. Because she is "really good at the 100 piece ones", and she wasn't kidding! Russell and Skyler were doing the guy thing, chasing Brody around, and playing toys with him, as Jackson's stash came in handy. I had to steal kisses and and hugs, which he so freely gave, in between our girl activities of the evening. Truly the fun ended all too soon, and we decided we are going to do this again. Sydney asked what I was doing tomorrow. So sweet. Thank you Joy for sharing your beautiful brood, it did my heart so much good to hang with the younger set again!