Birthday Visit Continued
Josh and Jenna stayed overnight for their birthday visit and were awake early Saturday morning for their visit to Chuck E. Cheeses. We always go there first thing in the morning (doors open at 9:00 AM) because most people don’t come until 10:00 or 10:30 AM. That way we have the place to ourselves for the first hour. The older children usually talk me into staying two hours!
Skee-ball is one of Josh and Jenna’s favorite games.
Their brunch consisted of cinnamon sticks and pizza.
Josh, Great-Grandma Hershey, Jana
After a few hours of shopping (Five Below, Education Station, Build-A-Bear, Dollar Store, CVS, and a few other stores whose names I don’t remember), we visited their Great-Grandma Hershey (my stepmother) and enjoyed a game of Golf. The children beat the grandmas!
Jere and Ivan
Lest you think Cerwin was idle all day – he was on call at Ferrellgas and needed to stay close to home, consequently it was a good time for him to help her youngest son, Jere, and son-in-law Ivan work on the remodeling project in Jere and Kristen’s basement – one mile from our house. They are transforming it into a family room. Cerwin was pleased to get through the whole day without any calls.
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Our two sons and their wives decided that it was time for a “double-date-night” and were sure that grandpa and grandma would much rather have nine grandchildren then spend a quiet Saturday night at home!
Back: Jana, Diana, Jared, and Jordan. Front: Gloria, Ian, Jenna, Josh, and Nathan.
This is when Cerwin and I know that one of the best things we ever did with our house in recent years was turn a bedroom into a “grandchild room”, where all the toys, books, DVD’s, videos, and Nintendo games are stored.
Of course nine children never stay in one room, and this many children in one place always turns into lots of noise. Boys always figure out how to scare girls or younger children. We should have known something like that was up when all the girls came and asked where we keep our flashlights. (The one time all the flashlights you ever got for Christmas come in handy!)
In between the noise and excitement going on in our house, Cerwin and I and a few older children managed to watch the first recap of the Iditarod on OLN. It was fun seeing the faces and hearing the voices of the mushers who raced this year.
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