When parents are away, the kids will play!

Today, we started watching Jeff's little sisters while his parents are away at youth conference. For dinner I wanted to do something super fun. SO we had a no hands meal! I cooked a BIG pot of spaghetti. And then we bought two plastic table cloths from the dollar tree and covered a picnic table in the backyard. 

 About to serve the meal!

 Clean faces

 The only rule is: NO hands on the table. And there they go..

 Dirty faces haha

 Lauren

 Kallie

 Sydney

 Jeff ( He was trying to stay clean)

 Dessert time: Ice Cream sundaes a la picnic table

 I got to get in on the action!

 Lauren had sprinkles, chocolate syrup and cherries! No hands did not affect her sundae!

 After Jeff pushed my face into my ice cream

 Then things got a little crazy

 Ice cream war victim

 Battle scars

Sometimes it's good to play with our food, we had so much fun.

Then they sprayed each other down with the water hose and took showers. Easiest clean up for dinner ever. All we had to do is switch the table cloth and throw away whatever was left on them. I'm definitely their favorite right now ;)

TH turns 22!

 A few weeks ago I asked J what he wanted for his birthday. The whole time we had dated he never wanted me to get him anything for any holiday, so I expected his to say " nothing." He told me "a big surprise " Whatttt? I was definitely NOT expecting that and he wasn't kidding!   So I thought about it  A LOT and I came up with a quick weekend trip to Palm Springs. I made all the arrangements and even secretly invited our friends to come up and enjoy a BBQ with us. I was very excited that I was able to put things together. Then a week before our trip (the day of his actual birthday) I asked him       "Do you want your cake tonight or when we go to Palm Springs?" He smiled and started laughing at me and it took me a second before I realized what I did. I was so disappointed. However, he was so happy and the trip was SO much fun. The weekend was just what we needed to relax and enjoy each others company. Here are some highlights of our weekend:



It was very, very, very hot!

 The funfetti cake J requested

We had fun and totally mature games, like who could blow the biggest bubble 

and I won! Yay! 

We also had the oreo game. Who could wiggle an oreo from their forehead to their mouth

David won!

 We also went to the movies, ate a bunch of food and were in the pool most of the time! Such a great weekend.