Aunty Joye's FUN Chaos

Last weekend Jocelyn and I took a trip to Connecticut to visit Aunty Joye and the clan.  As always, the trip was a lot of fun, but so exhausting!!  Joye and I always stay up way too late talking, and Jocelyn is always up late hanging out with the kids, but true to form, she doesn't want to miss anything, so when the kids start moving around in the morning, she's up and ready too.  So late nights and early mornings for all...   not a good combination.  But there's no way we would give up a minute of the fun.

Every kid Jocelyn turned to, and there are five of them by the way, jumped at the chance to play with her -- snowball fights, legos, Nerf guns, ponies, didn't matter what it was.  We pretty much walked through the front door and I didn't see her the whole weekend, unless I went looking for her.  She had a blast!

Looks like she fits right in!

Top row:  Alex and Abbie
Middle:  DJ and Hannah
Bottom: Ben and my happy camper

Abbie is working on an agricultural project in school and she is raising baby chicks in the basement.  The family lives out in the country, by the way.  These 33 chicks will be added to the already 20 something outside, along with the 9 ducks...

Not surprisingly, 33 fuzzy, cute baby chicks were quite the draw.  Jocelyn loved petting them and feeding them.

Throwing snowballs and shooting Nerf guns!

Mommy and Jocelyn are still trying to recover from our lack of sleep, but our trip to Aunty Joye's was so much fun!  The kids want us to come back next week.  Oh how we wish we could!!