Sleep over at Maama's!

One weekend (April 12-13th) Zach was going out of town with the young men to stay at a cabin for the weekend and DJ was also gone for the week. SO Kristi and I decided to have a sleepover at Maama's.  Cindy had track and a date and Dad was at work most of the night so Why not? :)

   But, I didn't tell my kids anything about it until we were driving there and they were wondering what was going on- they didn't know I had a suitcase packed in the back of the car and everything... It was fun- and sneaky.  But, we got to Mom's and had dinner  and the kids were happy to be there.  Then, there was an urgent call from Maama who had just gone in the back yard "An alien UFO crashed back here!"  The kids were set out to look for all the little aliens who were scattered all around the yard and they found that some of them had clues, well, blank papers stuck on them.  

 Hyrum figured out they probably had to be decoded by using a hot lamp so they spent the next twenty minutes standing over lamps trying to read what the aliens had written.

  Once they got the clues figured out it said "Look in the old chest in the living room" and low and behold, a tray of alien cupcakes were hiding in there!  Oh, so clever...

 After eating and playing they settled in to the ultimate sleep over pile with six kids all lined up in the living room on a giant blankie bed and watched "George of the Jungle" until they fell asleep.
 And good times were had by all!