Some of our Beeswax: Tending Nieces and Nephews in Utah

Hyriam and Sunny went to Costa Rica and needed someone to tend their kiddos for a few days. Luckily they asked me to do it - it was wonderful to have the cousins together again and it snowed plenty for snowballs fights and snowman building. But mostly it was under 20 degrees the entire time and enjoyed ourselves indoors with Wii games, pictionary, charades, and all that each of their imaginations could come up with.

McKenna and Livia were out of school, so I took both Max and Elise with me. Jared went to stay with his father for the time I was there and the two littler boys got to hang out with us too. Kenna, Livvy and Ethan all had activities and Sunny's family took the two younger boys a few times so I could take the older 4 to do other fun things.

Outdoors we spent time driving to pre-school, soccer, basketball, piano lessons, dance and activity day girls (which I missed completely) we went to an aquarium, to Grandpa Alan's and Ikea plus other stores - oh and wonder of wonders, we found a Daylight Donuts! That was a happy Monday when we each were able to have delicious, and still warm, donuts from Daylight! Yum!

We each took turns dancing to the Wii.

Elise making snow angel

basketball wasn't working too well for Ethan in the deep snow

Jevan making a snowball

McKenna

The beginning of the snowball fight.

Jevan licking the snowman.

Livia's gigantic snowball.

Playing Dance, Dance on the Wii.

Just before his soccer game (indoor of course).

Snow gathered for ice cream.

Enjoying the snow ice cream - complete with major ice cream headaches and lots of seconds.

Ethan woke early often to help with breakfast - here we're making chocolate chip muffins (that actually wouldn't come out of the tin...we ate the tops anyway).