Wilkinsons come to visit!

 My cousin Rachelle Wilkinson from Texas braved a 2 1/2 week road trip with her 7 kids Riley, Kaiya, Kassidy, Kyndall, Rustin, Kaydence, and Ryder. Well they didn't come just for us, they had lots of places to go and people to see in Utah, but they did get to stay at our home, which was awesome! So glad we have room for them all. Rachelle is so funny and smart, and her kids are adorable and well behaved. Fiora totally bonded with Kaiya and Savanna loved getting to know Riley and playing with and herding the quints.  These guys have a lot of stamina, they didn't need much sleep and packed in a lot of activities in the 5 days they were here. First picture is Wilkinson kids enjoying their first breakfast at the "Schauers Bed and Breakfast." The kids were very polite about trying all my food. The following is an account of what we got to do with them. We had a really fun week.

They arrived late Monday night, so we just hustled to bed, I snapped this "arrival" picture the next morning.

Sav took a head-fan selfie with the girls

 

Kaydence and Ryder waiting to open their gifts

Fiora and Savanna crashed their bowling at BYU party, which was awesome because that's when Sav, Riley, Kaiya, and Fiora really got to know each other.

Jamin' to "Hey Soul Sister" on the ukulele

 Friday was Pioneer day and the Wilkinsons reserved the day to hang with us! Since it was a holdiay I didn't have to work so we got to party all day. We took them to the Battle Creek waterfall in the morning, to swim at our neighbors pool, Savanna did manicures for all the girls, and we had a family dinner/party in the evening with the Barretts. At the party we sung Happy Birthday to the quints, they kept blowing out the candles before the cantata was done! We played badminton, red rover, watched fireworks, and had homemade ice cream with peach cobler. It was really a perfect day!

Friday hike to the waterfall in PG

little kid big kid pose

Love a good bridge picture

Quints at Steve Barsh's pool, he got a kick out of them.

 

Singing the birthday cantata to the quints

Dad photo bombing the girl pic

Have to take a picture with all the kids, such a novelty!

Sav with all her manicures

 Saturday morning we took the quints with us to our Stake Pioneer Day breakfast. They had some pioneer crafts, twister, and other games there. They got a lot of attention, I can't imagine how Rachelle feels going places and getting inquiries and exclamations all the time! We all went to the Rappleye reunion that afternoon and said goodbye. Hopefully we can take a road trip to Texas next year, we loved hanging with these guys!!!

Pioneer paper dolls

Jared took the kids on a quick 4 wheeler ride before they left