Sleep over with the nephews :)

We've been talking about having a sleep over with our young nephews (all 5 and younger) for a while now and have been excited about doing it, so we planned the date and the kids were so excited! Then Matt and I started talking and we realized, we have NO idea what to do for a whole evening, night and morning with these kids. We have absolutely no toys and no experience entertaining children. So what was excitement, at first, for the whole experience turned quickly into anxiety. We didn't want this to be "cool Uncle Matt and Aunt Shauna's" "cool" suicide. So we had to think fast...

So we put our brainpower together and this is what we came up with....

• a dance off to Crazy frog, we called it the "silly song"
• mac and cheese for dinner
• playing our cosmic catch game, (we adapted it a little and had everyone just sit in a circle and hit the ball when it said their color)
• story time in the fort
• building a fort and watching Jimmy Neutron in the fort, with popcorn of course!

Everything was a big hit! The kids kept saying "lets listen to that silly song again", they ate all that mac and cheese up like it was gourmet and we had a ton of fun playing the games, building the fort, and watching the movie!

What we didn't plan on was 2 bloody lips and 1 bloody nose; Corbin slipped on our kitchen floor in his slippery pj's and busted his lip open and Gabe ran into the back of Carson's head and got a bloody nose and a bloody lip. Then Carson says, very seriously: "Maybe we should stop rough housing now!" Ha ha ha!!! What wise advice from a 4 year old :) Corbin and Gabe were fine after a couple minutes!

We also had story time in the fort and we turned out all the lights and the kids took turns holding the flashlight and telling stories. One of the stories was "one time we had a sleep over, and built a cool fort, and told stories in it." :) I love that story!!! We also had an adorable snoring contest that lasted at least 30 minutes before going to bed :)
Here they are, our cute slumber party nephews... (from left to right) Corbin, Levi, Gabe, Carson

Dance off.... Matt totally got into this one!!!

We taught Corbin how to do the sprinkler...check him out, it looks pretty good :)
After we took pictures of the kids, Gabe wanted to take some pictures as well. He did a dang good job for a 4 year old!!!
We don't have a picture of our fort but it covered the whole living room and entertainment center so that we could watch the movie inside of it. :)

I think we were able to pull off the continuation of our "cool" status... :) Thank heavens!!!