What would it be like to have 10 kids?

....Well if they were always as good at getting school work done, helping each other kindly  I think I could handle it...but, alas, life isn't always so easy. 
We had the Mattson (monkey's--Barry's kindly pet name for them) over for three days and two nights...and there was no problems what so ever. (Chris and Jen were in Mexico)  Our six kids, plus their four...that's ten kids total.  School work was completed.  Meals were eaten and cleaned up after well.  Therapies were attended to.  Tutoring sessions were accomplished  (and we got there on time too for Ryan and Connor's math and Clarissa's reading)  AND....play practice, Young Men, Achievement girls, dance class, flute lessons...check, check, check...we got it all done.  Whew, what few days of whirling activity.  To boot, Delaney had her birthday.  She had her party later, at the end of the week, but we did have her birthday breakfast on her special day.  She wanted homemade doughnuts, sausage and fresh fruit.--pineapple was on sale, so that's what we had.  Yum!  She became the pineapple queen of the day--alas, she still had to do school work, which she'd rather not do--but she had a good day nonetheless.

In the afternoon, after school work was complete, I required the kids to create something...it didn't matter what they just had to create.  Cailin and Clarissa decided to make a dress for one of her stuffed animals. (the first day).  They didn't complete them, but had fun cutting and sewing anyway.

This picture is out of sequence, but here are the sleeping beauties ready for the night.  The littler ones decided to have a 'good old fashioned' sleep over in the living room.

busy, busy...at school work!

On the second day they chose to make and sell lemonade.  It was a hot beautiful March day and they were thirsty for some lemonade...and felt sure that others would want some too.  (I called and told Barry to send some of his fellow deputies over their way, but it was a busy, busy day for them and they could make it :(   But they did have fun making posters and singing and dancing for fellow citizens as they passed by on the road.

In, fact it was so warm that they begged me to allow them to get in their swimming suits and get wet!  and this was MARCH!   (our weather has been wild and crazy this year...just a week or so later, there were snow flurries)

Lots of water fun...

As for the boys, you need not ask what they created....anything with LEGOS!!  here they show off their DaVinci inspired cross bow.