Friday the 13th

This Easter weekend the Utah Whites came down to stay the week. It was their spring break, and they stayed at Angela and Jody's house.

The kids have a blast together! I feel like I hardly saw them all week.

Of course my children still had school so we made it over to play on Monday afternoon, but had things going on Tuesday and Wednesday. I took the little kids out of school Thursday and Friday. It only happens once a year!

Thursday morning we packed up and headed over to Angela's to play all day. The little girls each took a turn in Aunt Dawn's hair salon. They all wanted the same hair do.

Thursday night some of the kids came to my house to "sleep over".

Friday (the 13th) Greta brought her children over to see the puppies and play in the morning and we planned to meet up with Angela in the afternoon at the park.

We played and visited, and had lunch. Then it was time to head out. Greta started looking for her keys, they seemed to have disappeared....

We then tried to think of anywhere they could have gone (the spare was in Utah!)

Couches were taken apart several times, we checked every toy bin, cabinet, bookshelf, backyard, under beds, I even looked in the fridge! 2 hours later we were still looking! Three of us had even emptied Greta's purse at different times just to make sure.

Finally we decided to call a dealership to have a new key made. It would be $50.00, but we could not begin to imagine where the keys had gone. With Registration and i.d. in hand the men went to get the key.

When they returned they told us it would take 30 minutes to reprogram the new key, so Greta and I ran to the store for some gatorade because the baby had started throwing up while all this was going on.

The programing was started and we were all enjoying some ice cream out front when the battery on the car died! Yes, I said it died!

Well time to hook up the charger and wait a while to start the process again. Greta and I decided to load up the 12 kiddos in my truck and suburban and take them to Angela's house so they could all be together the last day. Andrew and Adam would come when they had the car working.

15 minutes later almost to Angela's, Greta calls me to say they just found the keys in her purse!!!! Are you kidding?! We checked there several times!

She quickly called the guys to stop the reprogram! We pulled in to Angela's and Jody took my truck back with the long lost keys so we could go out.

It was decided divine intervention was in play and we just were not meant to travel at the time we intended.

The park was cancelled as it was now dinner time. I picked up some Taco Bell for the children and we headed for Oreganos.

All was well.

IT is such a joy to watch the kids interact. We stood at one point and watched as 15 year old Conner and some of the little kids played a game of crack the eggs on the trampoline all blissfully happy. This makes me blissfully happy.

What a blessing to have so many built in friends.
I love to watch them interact and enjoy each other! It was a great week. Now back to real life I guess. No more canceling my responsibilities to have fun.