Joplin

A couple weeks ago, the kids and I went to Joplin to meet up with some of my college friends.  It was SOOOOO much fun!! Four moms, nine kiddos five and under.  At times it was mass chaos, but still so fun. 

Jamie hosted at her house.  The kids all played really well together (for the most part).

The big girls had a slumber party and watched movies.

Jamie, Kristen, Megan, and I stayed up late talking after all the kids went to sleep. It was probably around 1 a.m. when we finally went to bed. I slept in the bedroom off of the playroom, where the girls were sleeping. While it was still dark outside, I hear Kate, Emery, and Arden giggling and just chatting away with each other. I looked at my phone and it was 4:30 in the morning!!! I went out there and threatened them within an inch of their lives that they better not wake up the other girls or Jack, and to GO BACK TO SLEEP. Well, apparently, that didn't happen because Jamie said her girls were up in her room around 5:30. I asked Kate if they went back to sleep or if they just stayed up until the sun came up. She said, "Oh, we just stayed up til the sun came up." !!!! Crazy girls! I'm sure you can imagine the exhaustion that happened later in the day.

Jamie made some AMAZING homemade cinnamon rolls in the morning. I think that was the only time not one kid was making noise. They chowed down!

We let them run wild for awhile and then decided to take them to Chick-fil-a to eat lunch and play. I'm sure we were quite the spectacle. It was so crowded, so we just got a big table for all nine kids, ordered a big nugget platter with some fruit and fries. We slapped some placemats down in front of them and just doled out food. We all just stood around while they ate and made sure everyone was taken care of! ha!

I kept trying to get a picture to capture the craziness of lunch, but it didn't go so well. I'm sure you can imagine.

After they ate, we sent them all to the play place, moved to a smaller table, and had time to sit and talk.

The kids all got ice cream when they were done playing.

Exhaustion took over when we got back to the house.

We had such a blast with everyone. We HAVE to do this more often!! Kate and I were so sad when we left.

 

None of the pictures of us turned out super great, so I don't have any to post.  But I guess that's what happens when you have a four year old standing on a chair take your picture. haha!