Heart of Hunter

This post is about kids (our's and other's). I love that Triniti is always at my house and goes everywhere with us. She has been friends with Cassie since kindergarten and we are lucky to live next to her grandparents who babysit her and her sister, cute Marlie. So on the night of Heart of hunter (school choirs perform a few songs and display art from the different schools in the area and serve a hot dog dinner) We ended up with 3 extra kids. Triniti, who is a regular with us, Andy(8) who thinks he should move in, and another girl, Rylie (8) who likes to come over also. Andy and Rylies parents weren't going and they wanted to, so they came with us. Triniti did also, but her family met her there. So here are pictures of us with our 9 kids eating our hot dog dinner. Of course there was not enough chairs so most of us stood.
I am just so thankful for a husband who is patient and loving with kids. Maybe there are lots out there like him, but I don't know very many of them. I am very blessed for someone who puts up with all the kids we have put up with. (Like the 76 foster kids we have had!!!) plus all the neighborhood kids around. The kids are constantly having sleep overs and friends over after school. (I guess this could be an ode to my bus. I am so glad for my 12 passenger bus sometimes, not all the times. I am thankful that we can take all these kids places.) But the thing is, having that many kids around, doesn't even faze us. I will be babysitting for kim and realize that I had like 7 kids under 5 and that was just our kids plus foster. and it didn't freak me out. Maybe there is something wrong with John and me. Sometimes I am mean. Like tonight, I took the kids to the fitness center (My 6 plus 3 friends) and when we got home, I hopped in the shower while John ran to get bread to go with my crockpot dinner. Andy came over. When I got out, James asked if he could stay and play I said no, dinner was on and some kids still had homework. As he was leaving, he asked if he could eat over and I said no. I felt so bad. I have a hard time turning kids away. So now I spend my night feeling guilty and mean. There was no reason he couldn't eat over but he has a perfectly good home to go to. I guess I will say yes to him tomorrow. Maybe that will make me feel better.
John and I have always wanted our house to be somewhere that kids want to be and hang out. There is alot of bad things for kids to get involved in and we want a safe place for them to go instead, so we decided we needed to start early. If one day when we have high school kids and we say "Okay, this is now the fun house, bring everyone over" we didn't think that would work very well. So I just have to remind myself that and say yes to the andys of the world. Oh well, enough of my ranting and raving. Hope you enjoy these pictures. You will have to enjoy them without becca. She was there singing, but I never had a good shot of her. I was going to when they were finished, but we ran out of there fast. It was too long for our short attention spans. Sorry becca.
P.S. I guess there is one bad thing about that many kids, I had too much going on to redo their hair. I shouldn't be so vain, but I like their hair a certain way, and it just didn't happen with all the stuff going on. But if that is the only bad thing, I guess our night went pretty well. :)