Watching the cousins!

Saturday morning we were officially in charge of our nieces and nephews. Brandon took Ethan to his basketball game that morning and then afterwards I took the girls out for some girl time. I wanted to get my nails done for mine and Brandon's upcoming trip so I decided to take the girls out with me and let them get their nails done too.

I think getting toes done is probably more fun. Especially since we would have been able to sit next to each other. Instead me and Kemry were next to each other and Piper was behind us. They both seemed pretty shy. Piper looked almost nervous and I felt bad. She was also super tired so that didn't help. It was still fun and I enjoyed having to girly time with my nieces. 

Plus our nails just looked so cute!!! :-) 

On our way home I decided to stop at 7 eleven and grab a soda for me and decided to get the girls a slurpee to end our fun. As we arrived at 7 eleven Piper looked like she was going to cry. When I asked her what was wrong she said she had to go potty really bad. I felt so bad and yet she had not said a word until that moment that she had to go to the bathroom. So thankfully I had stopped so she could go. Then we grabbed our drinks and went to pay and leave. When I went in my purse to get some money for the drinks I couldn't find my wallet. I started to frantically look as I realized that it was not in there. The cashier was nice enough and said it was on the house. She told me good luck finding my wallet and that we all have those days. So we thanked her and I got back in the car and called the nail salon. Thankfully they had it and it had not been taken. That was the last place I had it out. I must have put it on the counter when I had the lady take our picture and then spaced it. I was so glad I decided to stop and get drinks or I would not have known possibly for days that my wallet was missing. So I was so grateful for my soda craving! 😜 haha 

While us girls were off getting our nails done Brandon braved taking all of the boys to Scheels to play for a bit. 

Brandon said that they actually did a good job at sticking together. 

He said that Wyatt and Ethan were really good with Beckham and helped out a lot with him. 

After we all were back at the house I took Wyatt out for some one on one time. The previous week I had been super stressed and grumpy and the kids were getting the brunt of it. Wyatt asked me one day, "Mom, Why are you so mad all the time?" The next day he asked, "Mom, do you like being a Mom?" That one hit me hard. I explained to him that of course I liked being a Mom. I cried a little that evening when I took Ethan to basketball practice. I sat in the car for a few extra minutes and prayed to Heavenly Father to help me be in a better mood and to know how to handle the stresses that I was going through better so that my kids know how much I love them and I can be a good, happy and fun Mom again. So after talking with Brandon about it we decided it would be good for me to have some one on one time with Wyatt before we took off on our trip. Wyatt has always been more emotional than his brothers and I didn't want to leave for a week with him possibly still thinking that I didn't like being a Mom. So I took him out for some ice cream at Chick-Fil-A. 

It was a lot of fun. I addressed the issue and his question a little bit more and explained how much was going on and why I was feeling so stressed. I told him how Emmett had been being so out of control and then they got the flu and I was trying to keep Kayden from getting it because of his test coming up that I was already nervous about. Plus the fact that we were going to be watching the cousins that weekend and our trip was coming up. There was so much going on that it was hard to not feel stressed out. So after explaining to him everything we were able to just talk for a bit. We enjoyed our ice cream and I talked to him a little bit more about school and his friends and everything. It was a great time. At one point he told me how it was funny that we were eating food on our one on one. I then told him that most of my dates I do with Dad are going and eating food and talking and then maybe doing something after. He was kind of blown away by that. It was pretty funny! After finishing up some ice cream we headed back to the house and all the chaos. 

I took this picture to show Wyatt that he had a little bit of a black eye. He had gotten hit in the nose that week at school. He didn't make too much of a fuss about it but the nurse had told me he had come in because of it. I didn't think he was hit that hard but he had a little bit of a black eye. Pretty crazy! 

The rest of the day was spent managing chaos. haha The kids were able to play outside a bit and they played in the basement a lot. 

I even brought Kayden outside for a little bit of fresh air. 

He seemed to enjoy it! :-) 

The kids had fun playing outside when it wasn't too cold. 

Other wise they played games inside.

And attacking Brandon is always a fun thing to do. 

The kids were pretty good at playing with each other. They had some fights every now and then. Mostly Beckham and Emmett would fight. There was a constant yell of "Emmett!!!" in our house from Beckham.

Video chatting on Sunday with the crew!! 

Getting some wiggles out with Go Noodle. 

And there is always a Talent show performance when we have Kemry around. haha 

The kids enjoy showing off their awesome talents. haha It is pretty fun to watch! 

Look at that model pose! haha

Beckham must have been feeling tired because I found him cuddling with the trash can one afternoon. haha 

We ended the last night with pizza and a movie in the basement. The kids were so excited and we almost ate 2 Costco pizzas!! These kids can pound it!! haha After some pizza the kids went downstairs to have popcorn and watch a movie! Then it was bed time and Brandon and I signed a breath of relief. Our crazy 4 days was ending. Everything went pretty well for the most part. Beckham and Emmett were the hardest part of the week. They just cannot seem to get along. Beckham yelled at Emmett like every 5 minuets and it got old really quick. I was mostly ready for that part of the week to be over. haha Plus after all of that Emmett always seems to act worse than normal. In fact that Tuesday when he went back to school his teacher Jamie Bohn told me that he was more defiant than normal. She would ask him to do something and he would just tell her no. She said that it wasn't like him to be like that. She also told me that he wasn't being bad he just wasn't wanting to listen and do what she said. I told her we had just had cousins over for the past 5 days and that always takes a toll of him. She understood and was just so glad that I was going to get a break and be on a beach soon. haha Brandon's parents arrived Wednesday night to watch the kiddos. So we had basically 2 days to get laundry and shopping done and have things cleaned up for them to arrive. It was a really bonkers week.