Crazy Week

I do not know what happened, but this week has been so crazy.  Half the things we did were spontaneous and I didn't even realize how busy I was until I downloaded my pictures from the week.  No wonder I haven't posted since trek.  It wore me right out.  Here's a brief recap.  Monday we had Anthony at our house.  It's been a busy few weeks and we haven't had him around as much so we really made the most of it and played all day.  Tuesday I decided to get out of my hot house and go to the Treehouse Museum.  The kids loved it!  That afternoon I took the kids to my mom's house so Marcos and I could go hike the mountain since the race is next week (YIKES!)  We didn't get home until 10:30 p.m.  Luckily my mom brought the kids here and tucked them in for us.  What an awesome grandma my kids have!  As a side note, that climb up the mountain was so dang hard.  I'm going to need some prayers and luck going into this crazy race.  I did not think I was going to make it.  I was actually further along than I thought I was but at the time I didn't think I could find that last bit of will-power I needed (stupid mind games).  I was pretty nervous...the last thing I wanted was life flight coming to rescue me.  Wednesday, my mom called and said they were going to Cherry Hill.  I hired a babysitter to sit at home while Preston took a nap so I could take Dylan to tumbling and then we headed off to Cherry Hill.  What a long, fun day.  It was bedtime before we came home.  Thursday was Pioneer Day.  We watched the parade at home and then went to the park.  We ended up stopping to visit with family at Esteban and Amy's house before we headed up to my mom's for a bbq and fireworks.  Friday night we ended up going with Marcos' cousin, Joel and his wife Sydney, Tomi (Marcos' sister), Esteban and Amy to dinner.  We met up with a couple of friends Tomi knew from Florida.  We left all the kids at Amy and Esteban's with a babysitter.  Poor girl!  She made bank though so I'm sure it was worth it to her.  Today (Saturday), my sister, Melissa, called to see if we wanted to go swimming.  Marcos went to play tennis and met up with us later.  We were there all afternoon.  Then we had to run home, shower and get to a birthday party.  It was the quinceanera for one of the girls in our trek family.  Her family is from Costa Rica and she's the cutest thing ever.  It is latin culture to throw a big birthday bash for girls when they turn 15.  It's kind of a coming of age party.  So we spent the evening there with some of our new friends who we consider family now.  Wow, what a week!  It's been fun but exhausting.  It's Saturday night and my house hasn't really been cleaned this whole week.  I haven't done any grocery shopping and the laundry is piling up.  It's going to be nothin' but work this coming week.  Maybe we can try to spread the fun out a little bit next time.  The next few posts will be my attempt to document these fun events with some pictures.