Father's Day

i know i am posting this a week late but this past week i have not been my computer at all, i have been just crazy busy. on father's day we had laura and janell and there families over for dinner and we hung out and played games. it was a lot of fun. normally we have dinner at my mom and dad's but they were out of town. 

here is the wonderful father of my children with our beautiful kids.

you know i had to jump in for a picture because how often do we get a family photo... not much.

two weeks ago i told john that on monday the 22nd he needed to be completely free and make no plans. monday are john's saturdays so i had planned a special fun day for him. he had no clue what we were doing. on sunday i gave him his fathers day card and in it told him to be ready in the morning at 8:30. he was hoping to sleep in but didn't get too. 

monday morn i got up at 6 and got ready and then woke the kids up and got them ready. we left at 7:30 and john was still asleep. i took the kids to my sister's and then was home by 8:20 to pick john up. we left and started driving. we drove to arlington (about 2 hours) and went to six flags for the day. john was impressed that i planned this but i felt we needed a day alone together. the timing was perfect after a rough previous week and we had a blast. it was an awesome day.

so here we are right when we get there and wanted to take a picture with batman. the other character was aquaman. not a huge fan of whoever he is. all i can say about him is his ride is the first one we went on and we got soaked from head to toe. 

this ride was the titan, the monster roller coaster. this was the end of our day. we pretty much went on all the big rides and that was good for us.

after we left,  john wanted pf changs for dinner. i was not a huge fan of there even though i love chinese food but i am now because it was excellent. and i tried something new i have never had, chicken lettuce wraps, they were amazing.

john is my amazing husband and i love him more every day!!

Lisa Turtle

john was driving home from work and saw this turtle passing the road. he brought it home and even though the kids wont hold it, they like to watch it roam around. 

p.s. her name comes from a famous tv show... i know you all have seen it :)

The Zoo

we also went to the zoo this week and had so much fun. the weather was great and the kids enjoyed looking at all the animals.

the white tiger was very active and fun to watch.

kelton was very good and is such a cutie

mikenna and maegan watching the leopard

andon and sawyer always tried to hold hands while strolling along the way

all the kids in front of the lions

here are the kids looking at the rhino

andon and mason watching the penguins

mikenna, treston, kaden, and jared in front of something, i just don't know what animal.

andon and sawyer getting a break from their strollers

mikenna and elephants

andon and giraffes

kelton and glasses:)

treston and sawyer

laura and her 5 kids

me and the kids

The Lake

Earlier this week we went to the lake. it was so much fun. there was a sand area and out a little ways into the water there was a floating wood platform to jump off. this kids had a blast.

john and andon

my sister janell and her nanny caressa

troy, laura,  and mason... he didn't like the water

me and kelton... i think part of the reason we had so much fun was that our kids were really good.

janell, laura, and me... just laying out 

out on the platform, we played 500. basically john and troy were on shore and threw the football out to us and we raced to get it. we had so much fun and we probably looked like dorks out there but oh well.

john and the kids

mikenna

kelton

andon

andon and saywer laying in a puddle of water

"John and Kim + 10"

last night was a crazy night while john and i were on babysitting duty for laura's 5 kids and janell's 2 boys. add our 3 kids and we had a total of 10 kids all night. i was expecting a mad house but it turned out pretty smoothly... most of the time. so i started taking pictures and decided to keep record of the night. but the pictures are posted a little out of order.

here are the groups of kids that stayed together most of the time..

tatum, andon, and sawyer were a clan of 3... 

treston and jared hung out and played ball with john...

mason and kelton just hung around...

and kaden, mikenna, and maegan were all girly

bedtime was pajamas, snack, and a movie after i put the two baby boys down. and i must add that 7 of the 10 kids got baths before bed. that was nutty

okay so before the indoor fun and bed, the kids played outside.

here are the boys being cool...

and being normal...

here are the girls being silly...

and then lovable...

laura's crazy kids (she was mad i didn't get a good picture of them)

janell's silly boys...

and my triple scoop of cuties...

now i wound normally say here are all the grandkids, but we are missing one. braxton is in arizona and we miss him. so here are 10 of the 11 grandkids... having funny faces

what a great group of kids!!!