How we love a long weekend!

It was so nice to have a long weekend. Kenny was pretty much busy and gone all weekend but the kids and I got to relax (except for the several hours I spent at the mall with Hayli shopping. Fun..but not relaxing). We picked up my niece Allie for the weekend; her and Kayla are like two peas in a pod. My family came over Monday morning to hang out and through out the day it was shifts of people, as usual. It is always so nice to have my parents down to hang out. It is so enjoyable! We love it. All the teens decided that the party was at our house on Labor Day and at about 4:00 pm the real entertainment began. It is so fun when these young people get together because they are so hilarious! I took some really great pictures, few of which I am going to post today. They are such good kids and really enjoy being together. What I love the most is they never leave anyone out. My younger kids were swimming and so where my neighbors' little kids and what ever they were doing, they included them. Not in a annoyed way or like they had to, they just did it automatically. I think it is because most of these kids come from large families and have either young siblings or much older siblings with little kids. And did I say they are GOOD kids! I am glad these are the kind of people my girls are friends with (and there are actually one or two Hayli wants to date). They stayed probably much later than their parents would have liked for a school night but I think it was a fun day. I know Kenny and I played volleyball with them for about an hour and we were exhausted by about 9:30pm...we're getting old!

I am having a hard time uploading my photos, for some reason. They are so cute. I will have to try again later.

The girls all had volleyball games last night. Megan and Kayla's team won all of their matches. I think they have won against every school they have played but one. Hayli's team won all of their matches (they played two different schools). They are also doing incredible this year! They are a brand new school where there is no senior class (Hayli's junior class will be the first graduating class). They are a very solid varsity team, with a lot of talent. Tomorrow is two BIG games. Hayli's team is playing her old high school where half of her team mates, Hayli included, played last year. Obviously, a big rival! And if that is not enough, they are also playing the team that their current coach coached previously for years before coming to head up Hayli's varsity team! So, the girls want to win against one school for themselves and the other school for their coach. It is going to be super intense but exciting. I will definitely post (hopefully with pictures) about it.

P.S. GO JANELLE!!!