First Sleepover

When I first thought of taking Shane out of town, I called Jennifer and ran the idea past her.  Without hesitation, and without even checking her calendar, she said she would love to watch the girls over night.  In fact she called me back and told me we should stay 2 nights because she wanted to take the girls to church to show them off.  I told her she could take them to church anytime she wants to.  She totally took me up on that offer and took them that Sunday.  Single mom of 4 kids and she volunteers to take 2 more!

I told Shane our plans a few days before by giving him a letter from the girls.

Dear Dad:
Guess what? We get to have our first sleepover this weekend.  We're having a sleep over at Aunt Jennifer's house.  Mom has planned a little one night get away for just you and her on Friday night.  Although it would be fun to be in Park City, we are so excited to have our first sleep over.  Aunt Jennifer is so excited and has been talking to us about it for weeks.  Aren't we good at keeping secrets?

Make sure you get all your work done by Friday morning so you and mom can have a fun, relaxing night away from us.  We hope you get to sleep in really late.  We promise to be good for Jennifer.  We will miss you but know you will have fun spending time with just mom.

We love you!
Love, Siena and Aria

So the girls were so excited for their first sleepover, as you can see from this picture with Jennifer.  In fact her daughter Kali was so mad she had to go to her dad's Friday night and wanted to stay home to help watch the girls. 

I was so busy this week that I didn't have time, nor did I think Jennifer reallly needed it, but I didn't write down one instruction for her.  I just handed everything over, verbally kind of told her how much to feed them and that was it.  Of course they had a great time and Jennifer is always so good to them.

They went to a track meet to cheer on Cameron.  Jennifer's girls gave them 'horseback' lessons on Abbey's huge stuffed horse.  They played with their cat Sox and loved all the attention they got.

We of course called and checked up on them and everything went so smooth that I didn't have to worry at all and knew they were in good hands having a great time.  She always remembers to tell me every cute thing they do and funny things that happen. 

When I called to tell Jennifer we were on our way over to pick the girls up, she was so funny.  She said 'I was just packing their stuff up and I kind of am getting a lump in my throat.  I have just loved having them this weekend.'  How can you not love that when whoever is watching your girls says that?

A huge THANK YOU to Jennifer for not only watching the girls, but loving every minute, and taking such good care of the girls. I love you and the girls love you and LOVE being with you.