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While the Rice's are away... the kids will play!

LOOK AT THIS CUTIE!!!



Ok.... now onto the real post...

My Pastor and his wife are gone on a much needed vacation and we are staying with their kids! (well at least 7 of them....) The Rice's have 9 kids... Jason, the oldest, is married to my sister Naomi... and Jackson the youngest went on the trip with his parents.

Soooo... we've been trying to keep things fun for those left behind... On Friday we loaded up the van and headed to Borders Books... just for a change of scenery...

(Tyler)The little kids had never been to Borders so it was kinda a fun change...
(Noah) different kinds of books than the library!
(Caleb)

The kids were engrossed!
(Abbi)

(Jonathan)Even the older kids/young adults kept themselves entertained!

They actually got a little bit of a much-need-break~
(below Kenz) ~ (Josiah not pictured!) The hardest park was keeping Natalee entertained! She just wanted to pull all the books off the shelf!
After we wore out our welcome there, we headed to the library to check out some books and books on tape. Here we are as we arrived back home in the "beast" as I have so lovingly entitled their van:

Saturday we went on outreach and then headed to the dollar tree to spend our "allowance"! The boys all bought guns which came in handy at the park where they played cowboys. Of course I forgot my camera ):

Then on to science experiments...



Dinner Friday was Spaghetti and Natalee ate leftovers tonight... Kenz made a yummy chicken/mashed potato/green bean dinner that was scrumptious! But it didnt' make for good red-nose pictures of Natalee... so there's no picture proof of just how much we all liked dinner...



I baked a cake today for Naomi's birthday tomorrow.... I had extra batter so I made a cake for us too! Look closely and you'll see a checker-board-chocolate-vanilla-cake... YUM!!

Natalee has spent the last 2 days terrified of the dogs (especially Lady).... so this picture is especially sweet!

To finish off our evening... Natalee, Noah, & Abbi in the tub.... too cute!

And thus ends our Saturday night. The kids are all in bed (or close...) and I'm ready to turn in for the night. Tune in Monday for more of a day-in-the-life-of-a-Rice!

Which really isn't like a day in the life of a Rice... because they don't go out and constantly g0-go-go and do 6 million things on a regular basis.... so it's kinda like a day in the life of Danielle... but with a few more kids! ha!

Comments

Patti said…
oh I miss my babies so much!! Thank you Danielle for taking such great care of them, and making their time away from us so much fun! :) Hoping you're not tooo worn out...we are getting a lot of rest, I can't tell you what a blessing it is to know my kids are in good hands. Thanks to you and Johnny, lots of love, Patti
September 21, 2008 at 12:34 AM
Virginia Revoir said…
I know how that is! I took care of the Chambers kids while they were away at conference plus one of their friends. So, total at the house was 10 all week! ha ha! It was great though. I have some really great pics on my blog if you go back into the archives for last July. So, so cute.
September 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Stephanie said…
I LOVE your blog Danielle and appreciate how adventurous you are! So full of different ideas - I think I need to chat with you more!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Hope it's a good one for you!
September 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM
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