A fun-filled weekend and with only one fatality

Denise and Mark were gracious, I mean brave, to let our family invade their home for the weekend. On Friday night, Denise had two girls from her church come over to watch the 8 kids while we went to the BBQ. They walked away with a nice amount of cash for their babysitting services that night. The kids had a super time playing together and my kids were enthralled with the number of pets that live at the Schuler house ~~ a lizard, a guinea pig, some frogs, a turtle, a fish, and a dog. Speaking of fish, here's a little picture puzzle for you. What happens when you add:

Timothy

+ 1/2 jar of fish food= A dead goldfish

Brylee had called Denise at the dance very worried that Timothy had overfed her fish named Cutie and that he might not make it. Mark and Phil quickly cleaned out the tank, but apparently not before little Cutie had gorged himself to the point of no return. When we checked on him on Sunday morning, the fatality was confirmed. We were consoled by the fact that he died fat and happy!!

Timothy also tried to kill off the lizard by feeding it a jar of turtle food. Thankfully, the lizard only likes to eat live prey. If we are not invited back soon, we'll know why.

Here are some other pictures of our fun time together. Check out Denise's post here for some more pictures.

Brylee and Savannah - pretty in pink

Trampoline gymnastics

We don't look 38 - do we?

This is where the wrinkles have come from:

Sarah (9), Timothy (2), Josh (9), Zac (11), Allie (11), Lindsay (7), Brylee (7), Savannah (7 mo.)

This just didn't work as well as we thought, but it sure made us giggle.

Lindsay, Brylee and Denise and I hung out at the Froggy pool while the big kids went swimming at the high school pool.