Mike made French toast and I woke the kids up so we could make it to 9:00 church. Jorja was not happy about that, but she knew it was coming. The 9:00 ward is the closest, and we figured it would be better to start the day with church than have it break up the day. Mike took people down on 4-wheelers. We were the last family to leave the parking lot. Mike rolled down the window so he could see better as he was backing up. The problem was, the window got stuck. Yes, that's right. It was STUCK open. We drove in the freezing cold with the drivers side window rolled down the entire way to church. It was so cold! We were laughing so hard. The wind started blowing snow into our car. Then we passed a skunk! It just kept getting better and better. I had tears streaming down my face, it was so funny. Luckily Mike was able to get it back up after we arrived at church. I was not looking forward to driving home with the window down.
The rest of the day was spent eating and playing games. We had such a great time. Stockton felt better today. He went to church with us and managed to do some homework. He still slept most of the day, but at least he stopped throwing up. That's progress. We played many, many games. Cover Your Assets was fun. Mike did awesome the first round and got almost half of the points he needed to win. It was a crazy good hand for him. Too bad Nathan and Steve declared it a practice round and started over. Nathan had said it was a practice round when he wasn't doing well, but it was obvious he was kidding. I argued that there was no way Nathan would have restarted the game if he had done as well as Mike. (I also had a great round, but nothing close to Mike.) Anyways, we started over. Mike would have won the entire game if we didn't start over. Instead Preston ended up winning. We had ten people playing, so that was impressive. Another game we like was Code Word, or something like that. Taylor also taught us this weird train robbery game. Steve (and Jacob) and I destroyed Nathan and Lisa in Canasta, or as they like to call it, 'Hand and Foot'. One game we didn't play was Dominion, that was weird. Matt would find that unacceptable.
Taylor, Jorja
Shannon, Sherry, Miah
Cover Your Assets
Matt, Steve, Lisa, Nathan
Xander, Mike, Preston
(Connor, Jacob and I also played)
Jorja painted Lisa's nails ~ butterfly wings
Jorja being a Porge playing Code Word
Sherry's family left a little before dinner. Matt has to work tomorrow, they need to feed their horses, Connor is going skiing with his friends and Tage was coming home. All those reasons. I'm so glad they came up here. I think Miah and Jorja had a lot of fun together. Everyone seemed to have fun together. We don't have many opportunities to hang out together. We have quick dinners and things once in awhile. We were trying to think of the last time we went on a vacation together. Steve thought it was the Disney Cruise when Maysen was a baby. It wasn't. There were several winters we went to Daniels Summit. That was fun. The great thing about the cabin though is there is a meeting place where we can hang out together. Seriously, we played games all day long today. It went by so fast. I hope we can do this more often. We missed Maysen, Tage, Spencer, Michael, Aimee and Jessica. They were definitely not forgotten.
Jorja, Preston and Weston were the last kids standing. They were playing a game, but I can't remember what one. Maybe Exploding Kittens? Anyways, I finally had to tell them they needed to go to bed. It was about 12:30. I had a hard time sending them to bed because they were having so much fun. I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.
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