The Hayes family, with 10 children, is not the normal family; their daily routine of six loads of laundry and needing a 15-passenger van as their family car, is anything but ordinary.

Eric sends Betty to a spa for her birthday, then tries to maintain order over their 10 children as they bake a cake and create a giant card for their mother.

Since the children have the week off from school, Eric and Betty take them on a trip to an aquarium to see tropical fish, sharks and seals.

Eric and Betty bring their daughter Rebecca, who has cerebral palsy, to a horse farm that focuses on special needs children.

There is a Hayes for each of the 12 days of Christmas; the sextuplets get to meet Santa Claus at a school party; Betty and Eric's orderly plan for opening gifts Christmas morning quickly goes out the window.

Now that the 4-year-old sextuplets are sturdy on their feet, Eric and Betty decide it's time for all 10 children to give ice skating a try.