How many Gardner kids are coming to dinner?

Here are a few pictures from our past week. We got home from our reunion late Sunday night, and then Monday around noon Ryan and Kathryn (from Heber) brought their 5 kids to stay with us until Saturday. Ryan was the session director for the EFY in Provo. I will admit that it was definitely crazy, but we had a lot of fun! Really, it only got crazy at meal times. The rest of the time the kids seemed happy and occupied. Here is Seth picking on the girls. Poor kid was the only boy, but he never seemed to care. However, when Matt would come home at night Seth would attach to him pretty good.




Poor Jordan got a little too sunburned. The pictures below were taken with Matt's cell phone so you really can't see her swollen eyes. I guess that's good, 'cause then there isn't any proof of how horrible I am to let her get burned so bad. She was fun to have around. We enjoyed singing songs at the piano. It was fun having the older girls to hang out with. Family Home Evening and scriptures are a lot more fun when you have good readers. My girls sure had a blast with their cousins!









BASEMENT UPDATE: This sheetrock was dropped off on Wednesday and was supposed to be put up and mud and taped by the weekend so I could start painting. Well, they called Thursday morning and said they wouldn't get to it until Monday. I guess I should be greatful, because the finished play room (where the kids' computer is) is on the left and with 5 extra kids in the house I didn't know how we would keep everyone out of this part of the basement. Hopefully tomorrow I will have new pictures for you with a little progress. We did purchase carpet on Saturday! We're getting there!





And then last but not least the 2nd tooth (on top) finally came out! The first 2 pictures DJ took at the family reunion. She had a huge audience cheering her on to pull the first one and as you can see they paid her well. She had a bit of a snaggletooth for a couple of days until I could talk her into pulling the 2nd one. She is so cute without her two front teeth. I LOVE listening to her talk!





Oh...and Kierra is crawling up the stairs. If she could just figure out how to go down a little softer I would be much happier.