Our favorite game

Ok this is the last new post for the day and I will be totally caught up! What a slacker I've been! Our family has a new favorite game that is actually one that my family played when we were little. It's called "Wild Willy". My mom has fancy cards that she uses, but we just use some Old Maid cards to play. You lay out 8 different Old Maid cards and then send one person out of the room. While that person is gone you pick a card to be "Wild Willy". When the person comes back, there is a small treat (chocolate chips or m&m's work best in our opinion) on each card and that person starts picking treats off the cards one at a time. When they eat the treat off "Wild Willy" then everyone screams "Wild Willy" and that person's turn is over. The kids love this game and we love watching them play.

We love the keeper!

So Friday night was Aunt Jenny and Aunt Sarah's last soccer game of the regular season and since it was the last home game it was also Senior Night. Mike and I stayed up late Thursday night making t-shirts for the kids to wear in support of Aunt Jenny (we'll make some for Aunt Sarah next year). I thought they turned out pretty cute. They say "We love the keeper" on the front and "Burkinshaw" with Jenny's number (0) on the back. We got lots of comments on them. They won their game so they play in the first round of play-offs next week and you better believe we will be there watching, t-shirts and all. We love Aunt Jenny and Aunt Sarah!

Matchy, Matchy

I couldn't resist the chance to have cute matching Sunday outfits. Now I just need to find Mike a tie and we can take family pictures.

Spencer, Spencer

I should title this post, the visit of Aunt Kathleen, Spencer, and Aunt Chelsea but since I didn't take a single picture of my beautiful sisters while they were here, I will devote this to Spencer who was the most important visitor anyways (just kidding Leen and Chels!).
We had a fun weekend in Bartlesville. The kids really enjoyed playing with and helping to take care of (read: hanging all over) Spencer. Especially Sabrina. She really wanted him to have his binky in his mouth at all times. We of course went to Aunt Jenny and Aunt Sarah's soccer game on Friday night and had fun on Saturday helping them get ready for Prom. Saturday night, Mike kept our kids and Spencer so we could have a girl's night. My cousin Nikki was also in town so Kathleen, Chelsea, Nikki, and I went out to dinner. When we got home Uncle Mike was thoroughly enjoying rocking Spencer in the rocking chair and he was very happy, so cute!
I really do feel bad about the lack of pictures, but here are some cute ones that I did take!

The perfect day

The Wednesday after Easter was a beautiful day. Mike let me sleep in a little later than usual that morning because I hadn't been feeling well the night before. While I was laying in bed, I hatched a plan to try and convince Mike to take the day off work because a)it was going to be a nice day, b)the kids and I were going to Bartlesville for the rest of the week and weekend, c)he was way ahead of the game at work for this month, and d)his Wednesday night class was cancelled so I knew we would get him for the whole day. Very convincing arguments, don't you think? And it worked! And I'm sure it will never happen again. It took me a while to convince him, but he finally consented and then suggested that we take the kids to the zoo. We had a great time. This was the first time that we had been to the zoo as a family.




After the zoo we headed home for the girls to take naps and Mike and Benson headed out to the garage to put up some new organizer stuff. We had dinner and then I got to go to Mutual by myself while Mike stayed home and put the kid's to bed. Since Mike has class on Wednesday night I usually have to take all 3 of them with me, which is a little stressful.

So there you have it, the perfect day!