"Daddy, this is the BEST.DAY.EVER!!"

We're back and we're busy.  Busy un-packing, catching up on laundry, catching a stomach virus, re-organizing the house, sorting through 24 G worth of photos, deciding how to incorporate that many photos into one blog post, decorating, crafting, spray painting, getting Leonidas ready for preschool, trying to detox our children from all of the sweets and rotten attitudes they acquired while we were on vacation, hunting down decorations for Oliver's room (we're changing the theme of it), finding the right fabrics for Oliver's bedding, making a practice sheet for his bed, thinking of Christmas gifts for the kids, (yes I am thinking of Christmas gifts already!), ideas for their birthday gifts, figuring out when we can get away to the beach again this summer and so so SO much more.  

We have hardly had any time to catch a breath while the kids are awake.  

I was just itching to do something fun and spontaneous with the kids because we've just been so busy.  

Jared and I scheduled a pajama party on our calendar and let the kids know when it would be.  

Wednesday morning Oliver and Leonidas both woke up and said "Is it popcorn pajama night yet?"

We declared Wednesday afternoon/night a popcorn, pajama, tent party kinda night.  The boys picked out their pajama party pj's.  Nidas chose an angry birds t-shirt with fleece sonic pants and Oliver chose an angry birds t-shirt with paul frank flannel monkey pants.  <3

I grabbed some of these awesome afghans and quilts that I acquired while we were in Missouri, almost all of the kids' blankets and quilts and I threw them downstairs and turned our living room into a magical tented wonderland for the kids (and the adults!).

 As soon as I had the tent all ready to go the sky turned grey, the sun hid behind some clouds and next thing I knew we were setting sail on a ship (the sofa) through the ocean to find pirates.  As soon as we set sail it started to rain (really, it was raining outside).  Nidas was the captain, on the look-out, making sure there weren't any pirates or ocean monsters coming our way. 

  

 Leonidas was giving directions to his shipmates, telling Oliver to go take pictures of scary things in the water.

  

 After the we finished playing pirates everyone snuggled up underneath the tent and laid there,

waiting for daddy to come home from work so we could start our movie!

 Aveline was piddling with my phone and I heard her saying "BaPa .. BaPa" and she had called my dad and was talking to him .. I guess she saw his face by his number (how she was able to get into my contacts amazes me) and touched my dads photo icon which caused my phone to call him and she was just jabbering away with CatPa on the phone.  :)

 Daddy came home, everyone greeted him at the door with open arms, dancing feet and excited stories to tell him.  

Daddy brought home some peanut m&m's to toss into the kids' popcorn, they thought that was awesome!

 Daddy put on his pj's and under the tent he went.

 Set the camera to auto picture taker mode and slid under there as fast as I could .. here's a few "family photos" from last night.

At one point during the movie we were all dog piled on top of each other and everyone just stayed where they were, squished, cramped, feet in our faces but the kids didn't care at all .. they were happy and when they kids are happy, we're happy.

 Leonidas was laying on Jared's back like this for quite a while and Leonidas said "Daddy, this is the BEST.DAY.EVER!" :)

Sometimes all the kids need is just a bit of imagination, a couple blankets and a big rain storm.

 If you're looking for pictures from our trip to Missouri, don't worry, there will be a post with them but I don't know when, a few weeks I suppose.  For now, I might just go make another tent and take a nap inside of it while the kids are napping in their beds. 


My husband, my children, my family make me so happy.  I.am.beyond.blessed. :)