a family slumber party!

We started a new tradition (at least, I hope it will become a tradition!) on Friday night.

Halle has been begging me to have a slumber party with her.  I thought it sounded really fun, but I knew her other sibs would love it as well!  

So I proposed an idea to Nathan--why don't we have a family slumber party?

He loved the idea!

So on Friday night, I got some good "kid-friendly food" (aka Totino's pizza rolls, dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggest, tater tots and rainbow sherbet) and we had a fun supper:

And then we watched a movie, which we pretty rarely do.  We rented "The Crood's", which we LOVED!  It was such a funny, cute movie.  Our kids laughed hysterically at it, and it was just really fun.

Nathan was in multitasking mode, so while I snuggled with the kids on the couch, Nathan painstakingly folded and stuffed envelopes with our Christmas cards/newsletters.  Thank you, baby!!

Daisy is a little young to enjoy a full-length movie, so a lot of the time she just carried around her babies.  She is just too cute:)

After the movie, Nathan brought down our queen-size mattress for the kids to sleep on, and they had a blast jumping on it for awhile...

Then he settled them down by reading them a couple of chapters in the Thanksgiving novel that we have been reading to them.

Nathan and I slept on the couches while our kids slept on the mattress, and we all had such a fun time! The next night, Daisy wanted to sleep in the living room again :)  Although our slumber party was a lot of fun, I still prefer to sleep next to my hubby!  So maybe this will be a once or twice a year thing.  

Love doing things like this with our kiddos!