All good things

This past weekend was the state tournament for wrestling. The short story is that Kyle won his first match, lost the second. Therefore, he pulled out. No need to permanantly damage the shoulder for 5th or 6th place. Last week started out with us looking feverishly for a shoulder brace for Kyle...the one place we talked to ordered it overnight for us...I called on Tuesday, not there, I called on Wednesday morning, not there. Keep in mind I was told it would be in Wednesday morning at the latest. After a few more phone calls and Wayne going directly there...it was back ordered. That is something that they could have told us on MONDAY. Jerks. Thursday morning rolls around, we had found a brace in Scottsdale that I was going to pick up on my way to the tournament. That was good. Small victory. I pack up all the baby stuff that you could think of, get the babies in the car, hit Starbucks (thanks Cari for the gift card) and off we went to pick up Wayne at work...this was 9am. Our day was a long one. We were in the gym watching wrestling, making friends with the people around us and eventually headed home. Long day but the babies were great. They just took it all in, hung out and were happy to be home doing nothing the following day.

We also found out this week that Kyle made it to next level for one of his scholarship applications...Yippee. That is great news. The scholarship is the Elks Lodge one and it goes from city, regional, state and then national. He is at the state level now...

Taylor is getting her first tooth!! I can feel it and see a little speck of white. Unfortunately, she is rather miserable right now. She has a cold with a cough combined with the teething pain...she is an unhappy girl. She has had a hard time sleeping but overall in an ok mood.

Went to Jessi's volleyball game last week. She served about 4-5 points for her team. The level of play is so much better than last year. She is on a team with mostly 8th graders and a few 7th graders. They actually volleyed the ball, it was great and fun to watch. We have two games this week and next then it's the playoffs...short season.

We are also looking forward to Uncle Tom, cousins Abbey and Kelsey coming for a visit on Saturday. They have never been to Arizona and will be making the trek up to the Grand Canyon. We'll take the boat out, do some hiking, enjoy the beautiful 70+ degree weather!! Can't wait.

Wayne has been working hard installing a bathroom/shower in our trailer. We hope to have most of it completed by our sand dune trip on the 29th...Why is he installing this you ask...the answer: 4 girls! We firured it was a must especially with two little ones who will be getting absolutely filthy on camp trips and will need to get cleaned up.

Lauren has reached a whole new level of "mine" these days. Everything is "mine", especially if it's something that Taylor is holding...I am trying to be patient but it's starting to drive me batty. If there were two words I would remove from the toddler vocabulary it would be "mine" and "no".

Ok folks, no pictures today but will put some on soon...hope everyone has a "love"ly Valentines Day...