Vacation! Or. . . sort of

I am sure some of you moms out there will understand my questioning the reality of a vacation being an actual vacation. It really feels like a whole lot more work than just staying at home. . . and for a week after the "vacation", you are trying to get the kids back on schedule and well rested and well fed and get rid of their "give-me" additude and do all the laundry from the week as well as the laundry of this week and take care of all the stuff that wasn't taken care of. . . I think I need a vacation!!! ;0)

Okay, but for all the work after the vacation-- it is still fun during the vacation. And, lucky for me, the vacation came to my town so it was a little bit easier on me (thanks, family!!!).

My mom, my sister Lexie and her baby Jaxon and my sister Lacey all came to visit from Tuesday to Friday. We had a lot of fun, even though with two babies and two toddlers we spent a lot of time taking naps, feeding kids and doing homework. And the weather was bad, so we didn't do anything outside. But here are some of the things we did manage to do.

We ate LOTS of chocolate! Wow! Coldstone cakes are awesome!

We played games. Settlers-- Lexie's favorite and a new game-- Ticket to Ride. Very fun! I definetly recommend both.

We perused Twin Falls limited shopping. And we even went swimming at the hotel pool. If you ever want to visit Twin Falls, I recommend the Shilo Inn. Great, clean rooms and very good price.

Aunt Lacey and Grandma spoiled the girls and Aunt Lacey put up with crying babies all night and played with the big girls. It was a great girlie week (poor Jaxon!). Here is a pic of the big girls and the grandbabies.

Us Mays are electronically challenged and can not seem to get everyone in the picture at once, so Grandma is missing. Oh, and Jaxon was sleeping. Here are the May grandbabies. What cuties!

And yes, Jaxon is six weeks YOUNGER than Kendi. He outweighs her by 6+ pounds and outdoes her in every other way possible. But this didn't stop Kendi from stealing his binky every chance she got. In her defense, they were exactly like hers. And she is not used to sharing (yet).

Funny little story. Aunt Lacey plays music in her car (Mom does not-- three kids is enough noise!). Kira and Kamber rode in Lacey's car a couple of times and were excited to listen to "Her Music." They apparently don't like Boy music (male singers). Their favorite happened to be "All the Single Ladies" by Beyonce. I don't even really know the song, but the girls ran around the rest of the week singing the chorus. But they made up their own words. Kamber would sing, "All the singlex, all the singlex!" Then Kira quickly corrected her. "No, it is not 'sss', it is 'th'. All the thinglex, all the thinglex!" Sounds good to me!

Thanks Lexie, Lacey and Mom for the fun weekend! We love you!