Fun With Cousins (Final Entry!)

On Thursday, our final full day with the family, we took it a little easier. I was so worn out on Wednesday that I never got around to having the kids do their homework or make their lunches or get their clothes out for school. Needless to say, I just kept them home again. What a slacker mom!

We played around the house and then Grandpa and I took the older kids bowling. It was quite the time! Emma, Lizzie, Hannah, and Grandpa were the winners for the two games (we were on two teams...overall for each game, Grandpa one the first and Lizzie won the second).

Eldest children are often very concerned with score keeping!Lizzie(6) relaxes before her next turnBrielle(4) was very patient and sweet!Ammon (10) and Grandpa check out Karl's form!Emma(4) lines up her shotOh, dear! Not her best shot of the day...Hannah (8) looks onAmmon (10) approves of the day!

Nana stayed home with Caleb, Josh, and Bekah. She also decided to tackle the most impossible job of the Boyer household...LAUNDRY! For all of you who have seen the horror we call a laundry room, you will be happy to hear that Nana couldn't put up with that for another minute! She worked diligently for the last day and a half and I was only left with eight more batches! :) I took a few pictures after she had worked to get some of the mess taken care of (Heidi and Rachel...these are mainly for you...)

Mom's organized piles and the six new laundry baskets she got for me! Yes, ladies, that IS floor you can see!

More laundryThere are even hanging clothes! Hooray!

I now have nice neat baskets for the kids to sort their own laundry into each day when they do their daily chores. Each basket is labelled so that the kids know where to put their stuff...whites, girl's colors, girl's dark, boy's colors, boy's darks, Bekah's stuff, towels, grown-up clothes, etc. I'm hoping this will help! And, yes, Mom, I did work on it a bit more today. :)