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!!
So, I made the mistake of getting Tanner a 16" bike when he turned 4. YES, that is almost 2 years ago. We never really lived on a street that was "bike" worthy, so he never got much practice. A few months ago we decided to make an effort to get the kids out on bikes more and then he'd be comfortable enough to take the training wheels off at least before he turned six! 
Only one thing was missing....confidence! The whole thing just freaked him out and he didn't seem to care that all these 4 yr olds around him could do it. So we made a deal. I told him I'd go buy "Payton" (yes, Kam has a 16" also) a 12 inch bike and he could learn on that one! He was ALL for it. He didn't care if it was purple and pink, it was smaller and that was all that mattered.
Of course he took right off on it with no problem at all:
After about 15 mins of riding around we brought out his bike, and sure enough, NO problem. He even started by himself and never needed pushed off. 
We tried to see how Kamryn would do, and I think we'll give it a few more months!
(don't mind Kamryn sporting the leggings with no skirt in the background...)
A few days after Case left JD came to town. They also had a great time together and JD got to spend the night one night. They had matching DINO's by chance and thought that was the coolest thing ever!
(I love how Tanner changed his dino into a pair of his undies before bedtime)
Payton is slowly but surely making the transition to Kamryn's room....She messes around ans has yet to "go" to bed int here, but she seems to find her way over sometime in the night and has been waking up in her bed in that room! Anyway, it got me thinking about starting to work on the nursery. When Tanner was born I had MADE my own bedding with my high tech skills, and needless to say-it didn't really last. (for example the crib skirt was made out of an old sheet I found in my mother in laws lined closet)
So I decided today to start looking for bedding and that it'd be fun to do the nursery in brown and green. Just for a change since Tanner's room is so blue. As I searched online I was highly disappointed in the selection!! Not only for these colors, but I hardly even found ANY bedding I would settle for....This was one of my favorites....AND the ONLY one I'd go for in these colors. What do you think? Is it too girly/frilly?? Or does that not count with a baby? Should I keep looking???
If I keep looking, any suggestions on where to look??
