Vacation Sunday: pool day

Since we had all gotten to the house semi-late after having driven a long time, no one wanted to figure out what we were doing on Sunday.  So we made it a pool day.

First Doug got us donuts and we semi-relaxed as people woke up.

It was a nice pool, although the shade was lacking.  They had two nice big shade umbrellas...that were broken.  However, they did have a nice splash pad that my kids loved.  It was kind of sprinklers and had no big amounts of water that would dump on your head.

In the afternoon we took some naps.  The kids were pretending to play pool until Ben and Dusty changed it to air hockey, which felt significantly less dangerous.

We started figuring out groceries for the week.  This was more of an ordeal than I expected.  Not because anyone was fussy, but because we needed to feed fifteen people for a week and since everyone has different backgrounds, every food item needed to be talked about.  For example, bagels.  What flavor?  Refrigerator or not?  Is cream cheese on the list?  Then it needed to be put into the computer for pick-up the next day.  It was probably my most annoying time of the trip, but that's a good thing since it wasn't that annoying and was important to do.  You can tell how thrilled we were below.

Laura had made some delicious chicken for dinner, but the kids weren't eating.  However, they were there was going to be delicious pie too.  One kid put all her green beans under her chair, and two kids, including Joshua, got feed by parents.  Well, I guess three kids got fed by parents if you include the baby.  :D  The pie was wonderful.

Some games were played before dinner too.  Isaac and Heather played tons of games throughout the week, with other people periodically joining in.