Chaos?

Last night was a MUCH better night of sleep.  Thank goodness!  

While Ron was out doing his typical Saturday Forest Gump impression (running an insane amount of miles), I picked up my friend Katie Beadle and we took the girls to Eagle Point Park to play.  It's a gorgeous park over looking the Mississippi river - if you haven't been there, you must!  It was a bit cold, but even though the girls' fingers and faces were bright red, we had to pry them off of the play set.

The rest of the afternoon we just hung out and had a wonderful feast for dinner (Surprise!  Feast at Jan's house?  Now that never happens!).  My Mom is such a wonderful cook!  We all gain a few pounds each time we go home!  

Four kids under the age of 4 plus two giant dogs = chaos?  No!  ;-)  Just a fun family day at the Stoffel Hotel.

Clara is getting her nails painted by Auntie.  "Pretty" she says :-)

Silly Sophia and Uncle Will - when Sophia smiled she had blueberries on her teeth making it look like she had a missing tooth (takes after her Mommy w/ getting stuff stuck in her teeth!), so Will joined in on the fun :-)

Sophia and Grace making nests on the floor reading books.  And Clara?  Well, she's IN the toy bin!  LOL.  She found that more entertaining than the actual toys!

Now that can't be comfortable.  But she sure enjoyed it!

Quite the little Beethoven, Clara!  Looks like she's really getting into it!

Sophia is a little hidden, but all four little ones are banging on the keys at once.  Lovely sound, I might add ;-)

Grace, Clara and Sophia - Grammy won't clean the piano (or the windows & doors) for weeks just so she can see all the little finger prints left all over her house ;-)