Snippets of life . . . .

when visiting my parents and everyone* comes home

Their 9 kids
with their 7 spouses
with their 21 children!
Yes, it does get crazy, but it is FUN! :-)

*(there were 2 spouses and 3 grandchildren who didn't make it)

Violet (Bekah's) Isaac and Eli (Levi's)

Madison and Abby (Bekah's) with a dog that was visiting temporarily. Such a pretty dog!

Cori (my oldest sister) and Julie (my brother Jesse's wife)

My dad watching a funny you tube video with all the kids. He still laughs and laughs even though he has seen it many times! The explosion (literal explosion and his explosion of laughter) scared poor Violet right off his lap :-) Click here to watch it for yourself :-)

One of our many game nights. We stayed up late each night and usually played Apples to Apples or just talked and laughed. From Back: Bekah, Cori, Karmen, Laura (and Lyrik), Nicole, Julie, Jesse, Rachel (my brother Levi's wife), Josh (my cousin) and Joey (Laura's husband)

Lily (Laura's) and Madison coloring during their sleepover

Eli and Isaac had a sleepover also. They took forever to fall asleep and eventually Eli decided a sleepover wasn't all it was cracked up to be and went home :-) Luckily his parents were still upstairs visiting :-)

Chloe (Levi's) and Madison getting tucked in for a night in the camper. My parents borrowed one from a friend to have enough sleeping space :-)