So, I'm in the Primary Presidency now, which is a super sweet calling now that church is only 2 hours long. I have to say, though, that I'm thankful I'm not the President. There are a lot of meetings involved with that calling. But as the first counselor, I have it pretty easy.
Anyway, I'm bringing that up because I should have known when I scheduled the boys' birthday party that it would interfere with the Stake Primary Camp. The camp was from 9 to 3:30. But the drive was 1:40. I knew they'd come back super dirty and tired, and I couldn't send them to their own birthday party like that. In reality, I wasn't even sure they'd be back by 5:30, which is the time that their birthday party was starting.
That morning, I woke up at 6 and got Kendall and Alexis ready to meet at the church building for a 7 AM departure. Kendall had had a movie night (Descendants 3) with a few of her friends the night before, so she didn't get to bed until 10:30 the previous night. She was exhausted, that poor girl. We'd invited, Katelyn, Vivian, Brookie, McKinley, Olivia, and Berkley.
Anyway, since I was in the presidency, I figured I should pull my weight and I offered to drive up. I told the President about the birthday party situation, and that I couldn't stay and chaperone. Still, some people had camped there overnight, so those people could bring back the kids that I would drive up. We had it all figured out. So I drove nearly 2 hours there and 2 hours back. I had left the boys home alone, but they knew they could call me if anything happened. They knew they could also call William, who was a lot closer. William had decided to go golfing that morning. So, he couldn't watch the boys and Alexis. So Alexis got to stay with me for 4 hours in the car, 2 of those with Kendall, Layla, Brookie, Charlotte, and Grace in the car. Thanks, honey.
Anyway, so the boys had decided to do their birthday party at Main Event. Everyone who they invited made it, except their church friends. The guests included: Kai, Luke, and Eli. Then Taylor had invited Dylan and Zander, and Logan had invited Lilian, Ishaan, and Trenton. LeiLani and Lilian's mom stayed. Dylan's parents hung out at the bar. And everyone else just dropped off their kid.
The kids started at the gravity course. They'd had the option of the gravity course, bowling, or laser tag, and they'd both picked the gravity course. I would have picked that one, too. Only Eli was too small to do it. And Luke got too scared. The boys rocked it!
We then went to our table for pizza, ice cream cake, and presents. Then the kids got some cash cards to play arcade games. And that was it. 2 hours of babysitting, and no one got lost. That was a great group of kids. Everyone got along great. And I got to meet their parents, too, which was nice.
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