Here's a summary of last week....
Hanging at the car wash:
SWIMMING!:
ZOO:
First Football Game:
And this week so far??:
Pretty much NOTHING! and LOVING IT! We may hit a park tomorrow and swimming again on Friday, but I have loved my empty week so far and the kids have been playing great together!
Doesn't look too bad right?? But check out the other views!
Brian "thought" they'd just pump the concrete back....I guess no one told the driver that pavers and heavy cement trucks don't work well together!
UPDATE:
So, it's hard to tell, but as they tried pulling it out, it would sink a little more with each pull. I even ran inside and didn't want to watch because I was 90% sure the thing was about to tip over! 
In the end, THEY got it out! The damage to the driveway is hardly noticeable-you think?
MEANWHILE, the concrete guys had called in another truck and were still able to pour in the backyard via our neighbors unlandscaped side yard (of course, by pumping it in this time!)....
Well, it's spring break down here, and we're having fun so far doing nothing! Until today that is...seems like everything fell on the same day for Tanner. He has had football practice on Wednesday nights getting ready for their first game on Saturday. And then we signed him up for a fun 2 hour basketball camp this morning, and to top off the busy day, he had his make-up day at gymnastics! I'm glad gymnastics is ending just in time for football to start, because I'm not a fan of TOO much-that's for sure!
He LOVED playing basketball for the first time and was excited to see some of his friends there!
Gymnastics has been his ALL-time favorite thing to do...so I'm sad that he only has one class left. If football wasn't taking up two days a week, then we'd for sure keep him in-but we'll be back!!!
He has enjoyed learning the game of football more than I would have ever imagined!! I'm SO anxious to see how this game of 5/6 yr olds plays out this weekend...it should be pretty fun/funny to watch! Check out the kids with mouth guards even! Tanner reminds me daily that we've "Gotta" get him one by Saturday morning...
The hand off.....
Running through the crowd.....
Made it past them!!!! (TOO bad he was totally out of bounds by then!!!)
Needless to say-he's already zonked for the night and hopefully he'll be able to wake up before noon tomorrow! (4.5 total hours of sports in one day!! What a trooper! At least we spaced it out over an 8 hour span....)
Brian and I took a quick trip back home to Palm Desert to attend a funeral on Monday morning. Even though we left at 1 on Sunday and were back just in town by 6 on Monday-it was well worth our time. It was a great service for a truly great person. She battled breast cancer for 13 or so years and her time had come. I just wanted to always remember something that was put into words so well by some of the speakers at the funeral. I hope I can say it as good as they did! She was someone everyone loved and looked up to. I hadn't realized this until the funeral, but now I know what part of her made her as wonderful as she was. She had the ability to make everyone she knew feel like they were special to her. You knew that you had a place in her heart, and everyone seemed to claim her as "theirs." So many people looked at her as their second mom and thought THEY were her favorite. I know that's not making as much since as the way I heard it, but it hit me as SO true!! I just hope to be able to try harder over the years to build stronger friendships with those around me and to show half as much love and acceptance as she did to every life she touched.
Well, like most of my posts....this happened last week! We got to celebrate and took her to dinner Saturday night. Heidi and Dave came too and we had a fun time! Oh, and Sandra also found time to squeeze us in on her busy weekend. 
And thank goodness for a patient babysitter! 6 kids (five girls) with Tanner being the oldest. It was crazy, but at least it was only 2 hours of ciaos for her.
The three older kids(4 and 5yr olds):
The three younger ones (1 and 2 yr olds):
(Hey, give us 4 more months and we'll add two infants to the mix and there will be 8 between the two of us!!)
Wow, this week flew by over here! I was able to fly up to Utah for a day...(just a quick "mom" break!) Besides getting to see Shannon's new house all finished and visit with the kids, we took time to go find some fabric for the baby bedding! I saw stuff I liked at the first store, and decided to go with that to avoid finding more and not being able to decide!!! Now I need to find some time to sit down and see if I remember how to sew because I'm going to try and do most of it myself. I did however decide that I don't want to sew the bumper this time, so I'll have someone else do that part for me....Here's what I came up with: 
(give me a few months and I'll take a final product picture once it's all done)
I wanted to take lots of pictures to come home and show my kids, but this one of Lucy sleeping was all I ended up with!!
