Talkative Tuesday A Week with My Sisters

My sisters have always been my best friends. I have not seen my sisters for two years and let's just say I get homesick for their company. This week my sister and her four kids came to visit me. My own children had the week off from school and so it was perfect timing. We had such a blast and managed to keep the kids busy. We talked and laughed and reminisced. It was good crazy times. I think my kids had 30 seconds of boredom total. And that my friends is a miracle in itself.




Our Week started out with a trip to the Washington Community Swimming Pool where the kids completely wore themselves out with 2 1/2 hours of play.


I had the kids all by myself one day and we made pretzels and candles. Crazy Aunt Rachelle decided it was OK to have a marshmallow cookout in the kitchen over Isaac's homemade candle.





Saturday we were joined by Tom and my brother Jake and we made a long adventure of it in Zion Park. Isaac and Jacob are standing in front of their namesakes at the Court of the Patriarchs. We visited the weeping wall and took the river walk. I have been to Zion numerous times and this is the first time I have done these trails. They were smile inducing beautiful.

On Sunday, Tom cooked us a great dinner and did the dishes, always a good Mother's day gift. I also got a long nap and the much needed game of sister Boggle.

Monday we decided to explore Fiddlers Canyon, the actual Canyon up the road from my home. We set off on our grand adventure where we found a fun little water hole, a charming creek, dragonflies, lizards, a few scraped knees. Colette slid down a small incline and Isaac kept disappearing, only to reappear on some giant rock above us. We came back with pockets full of rocks and thirsty hungry kids. I can't wait to hike back there again.





The older kids finished out the entire rest of the day playing games. Here they are enjoying the spring weather on the front porch. OK sometimes I just had to send them all outside.


We saw them off Tuesday morning and Isaac was literally holding back tears. My sweet almost 11, can barely get more than a grunt for a response child, just could not bear to see them go. I have to admit it was hard. Now I am going to be playing catch up all week so it is possible this will be my only post.