This year Andy turned 21 and chose to go to Vegas to celebrate. Bob, Susie, Ginger and Aaron went along to help him celebrate. I was a little bummed that we didn't get to go but finding someone to watch 4 kids and get them to all of their activities is a bit challenging. Robb also is still having a lot of back pain and I'm not sure that he could even sit that long in a plane right now. Since we decided not to go, we got named the people that were trustworthy enough to watch Brook and AJ. I was a little worried how it would go with an extra 2 kids at our house but it went surprisingly well. It was fun getting to spend time with them and the kids loved it. I had some time off that week and Robb took a day off too. We had a couple activities planned as well as Bryce having a basketball tournament. We swam at the Y, attended basketball games, watched movies and went to Mahoney for the day.
This was our day at Mahoney. We have started going here once during Christmas break. They have a huge indoor play area, a sledding hill and an ice skating arena. We went with a couple of Roper friends and then had Brook and AJ too. AJ told me he had never been ice skating so I told him I would help him and we tried it. We made it around once and he had decided that ice skating was something that he never wanted to try again. Silly kid! Emmy loved ice skating, however, what she considered ice skating just about killed me. She would kick her feet out and move her arms around pretending to "ice dance" while I desperately tried to hold her up while I was also wearing skates. Brook and Abby the graceful ones of the bunch had a great time ice skating and they were both pretty good at it by the end of the day. Bryce and Caleb tried it and could get around if they held on but they decided that it wasn't all that fun. The boys all loved the toboggan hill and the girls opted to sit in the van and eat snacks where it was warm. The sledding hill was crazy steep and ended around a corner where you couldn't see them. Caleb and AJ made me nervous each time because they would try to steer the sled over bumps and ended up flying off each time.
It was really fun having the kids stay and it was humorous to see the boys having to interact with a girl their age that wasn't their sister. They both got tired of her talking about her boyfriend and they thought that they were probably cooler than he was. Abby and Emmy loved having an older girl to look up to and one that was willing to have dance parties and do crafts with them. AJ has the funniest personality ever and he was a pleasure to have at our house. He made us feel like a gourmet cook by loving everything that we made. He wanted all the recipes that we made. He is also just a hilarious kid in general. At one point I thought he was hoover boarding naked and I explained why that was dangerous. Turns out he just had on a really small pair of underwear. Too funny. He also loved to just take his pants off if we were hanging out at home. I'm glad that he felt comfortable with us. Ha Ha!!
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