Babysitters

I love having kids old enough to babysit the twins. I pay Eric or Erin $5 for babysitting when we go out for fun. I figure they can do service when we go out for church or school functions. Five dollars doesn't buy much though, they do a good job of keeping the kids safe, but they don't clean up like the rest of our babysitters have done in the past. I guess we get what we pay for though since we paid the others much more than a flat $5. The kids love when we go out because I usually let them watch tv or play video games for as long as they want and they eat lots of snacks. Eric and Erin both like earning the $5, so I am thinking of holding a contest to see who does a better job babysitting (cleaning up) so I can hire that babysitter more often. If they were smart, they would pay Zach $1 and he would clean up the whole house. Zach is the hardest worker I have ever met. He is awesome. Nathan is content to sit back and watch Zach work. He's going to make a great supervisor one day.

Today Mario and I took advantage of our wonderful sitters and we left this morning for a trip to Gila Valley to the new Temple. They took the boys to Sister Park's house at 7:30 so she could take them to school. Leaving early allowed us to make the 9:30 session and be back in time to pick the boys up from school. We would have made it back an hour early but we got behind a truck carrying an oversize load that took up the entire highway. To make sure no crazy person tried to pass, there were 4 state troopers escorting the truck. They finally pulled over and let all of the cars pass. We were really excited to finally get around the truck until a few minutes later we came up behind another truck with four more police officers. There were times we were going about 25 miles an hour on the interstate. Fortunately, we were only a few miles away from our exit the second time or we probably wouldn't have made it in time.

Hopefully we can do these Temple trips more often. It was so pleasant having a quiet drive with just Mario and not have four kids constantly asking, "Are we almost there yet?"