Saturday was filled with all sorts of activities. Because we were all up late the night before everyone including the 3 year old's decided that they would sleep in. I finally had a day off of work to enjoy a full day of activities. I think that it wasn't until 10 am that the entire house was finally awake.
After breakfast Dallin had the 2 dad's going through a workout routine that left us rather winded and my brother Dan rather sore for the next few days. He was left taking Ibuprofen to manage the after-effects.
We whipped the house into shape with all but the two 3 year olds divided into cleaning teams. We had our 8 year old's vacuuming the floors, the 11 year old's cleaning off counters and sweeping floors, the teenagers tackling the kitchen and neglected laundry room. It wasn't until we promised the kids a trip to the swimming pool that we really got complete efforts from the kids. With mention of swimming they were working fast and furious to clean up the last bits and pieces of the house.
It took us longer than we had expected to complete the cleaning tasks but we finally finished and had all of the kids darting to the vans with their towels and swimsuits in tow. Teyauna my 3 year old was about to run out of the door when I realized that she was already wearing her swimsuit. Quickly I called her back as we went to the laundry room to make sure that she would have some clothes to change into after swimming. Otherwise she would have to return home in her swimsuit.
The swimming pool is an exciting place for kids. Not as exciting for a parent who is tied to a 3 year old. Dallin was kind enough to let me have a turn in the wave pool with the older kids and then have a run down the waterslide before I took my Dad duty following my little girl as she darted between the kiddy pool, wave pool and hot tub. Unfortunately she did not enjoy the hot tub as much as I did so I had the warming and cooling sensation as I bounced around from the warm kiddy pool to the much cooler wave pool. As I got used to one pool she was off in another direction with her 3 year old cousin following her as well.
After a little over an hour the pool was closing and so we all headed out to the showers and were ready for dinner. With no other ideas on what to do we decided that we would opt for a chance to redeem our Halloween McDonalds and a chance to wear out the kids at a McDonalds Playplace. With the little playground the younger kids were kept well occupied. The older teenagers were happy enough to eat ice cream and goof around. I think that the kids must have filled up their free pop refills so many times. This was quite obvious by the time we got home because Eli was commenting on how there were lineups at the washroom when we got back home. That only lasted a short while however until we started our Movie night complete with some great snacks and a late night show prior to the end of our day.
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