The day after Christmas Jacob’s family began to arrive. By Saturday, the 28th, everyone was here. We had a blast with everyone here. Thankfully our new house is big enough to fit everyone—there’s no way we could have pulled this off in our old house. Every one at least had a door to close out the sound of our early-rising children. Each family unit got their own room, the single girls got the playroom, and Jesse got relegated to the laundry room. But at least it was big enough to lay out the couch cushions and provided a little bit of privacy when needed.
The first order of business when Grandma arrived was painting nails. Rachel and Annie got some nail polish in their stockings and Grandma was happy to sport some green and orange polish herself.
Grandma, Grandpa, Andrew & Heidi, and Mark & Ashley arrived Thursday night and got settled in with the kids and went to bed. But first thing the next morning the kids were outside enjoying the Arizona weather. For the whole time they were here we enjoyed highs in the 60s or low 70s. The mornings and evenings were a little crisp, but after Utah and Idaho weather it was a breath of fresh air for them. And we spent a lot of time out in the fresh air.
Beverly certainly enjoyed herself. She’s a little daredevil and was not happy that the monkey bars were not considered an activity for a one-year-old to attempt on her own.
After a short time the kids realized our old swingset was on the other side of the yard and had a bucket swing, which was easier for the smaller ones to swing on. That realization doubled the number of available swings so all the kids could swing at the same time. Thankfully Justin waited until the Campbells were gone to come haul this away to his yard for his girls to enjoy.
Movies were a popular pastime, especially at nap time for the younger kids, as it kept the older kids occupied and quiet. The closing credits to Wreck It Ralph has some awesome dance music that inspired the girls to bust a move.
Here’s Ryan taking advantage of Grandma’s willingness to read to him.
With only one boy out of all the Campbell grandkids so far, there was a good amount of princess dress up going on among the girls.
Bevy must like Cinderella. :)
If you were looking for Bevy, chances are she was out here, or standing at the back door wanting to be out here:
The kids occasionally noticed baby Miriam. She's a cutie!
Saturday we planned to go down to the park, and after waiting for Grandma and Grandpa Campbell to get back from picking up Cari in Mesa, then waiting some more, we heard that I-10 was shut down from a big accident and they wouldn't be home any time soon, so we just went without them. I'm sure we enjoyed ourselves a lot more than they did stuck at a standstill on the freeway for a couple of hours.
Andrew brought his radio controlled helicopter and they got it to go super high before it lost contact with the remote. The kids just enjoyed running around in lots of open space.
I got some cute pictures of Ryan and Annie when they were running back to the slides.
Lena was a little monkey and she and Rachel had fun climbing all over the place at the park.
Finally we decided to head home to eat dinner and hopefully see the new arrivals.
Cari (and Grandma and Grandpa) finally got there much later than anticipated. That was our last arrival and officially put our count at 19 people staying in the house. We enjoyed some funny videos all crammed onto one couch after the kids were in bed.
More to come...
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