Emma and Anni were hanging out front in Emma's jeep for a while and finally I made them come inside. I'm in my phone goes off alerting me that there is activity out front, but I just thought it was Emma and Anni going back outside again. Jared is sitting on the couch also not paying attention to his alert either and the boys are all back in their room and as it turns out - Emma and Anni are in Emma's room. I finally check the alert and realize there is someone outside my house and it's not the girls - I watch the video and I realize at this very moment we are being tee peed! I haul buns to emma's room and throw open the door and shout - "we're being tee peed right now by boys!" I race back to the the front door, and I am 2 steps from the front door when the door bell rings - I open it as fast and I can and Anni and Emma and then my boys go chasing them down the greenbelt! Anni almost caught them. We start cleaning it up and I tell the girls to go watch the video and figure out who it is. They are determined it's Nate's friend. They do some investing work and sure enough - Nate is out with his friends. They gather all the toilet paper up and go and tee pee his room as revenge! I go and text his mom letting her know what's going on and she gets a message from Nate that he promises he didn't tee pee our house - so I make Emma go back and clean it up. Long story short - it was Nate and his friends and the next day he came over with "I'm sorry cupcakes!" We all had a good laugh and it made for a very entertaining Saturday night!
Emma sits with the Bishop Cardon's family every Sunday to help out Sara so she can try and listen and have a break. If the girls need to go out - Emma will do that for them. She loves it! She also pretty much only babysits for them too. Well Charly had a birthday so Emma took her time and money and took the two girls out to McDonalds for a special birthday treat! I thought that was so sweet of her!
The twins finished off another soccer season. For the first time ever we weren't the Flash. Kids moved, didn't play, etc. So we had a new team and they also played for the first time ever for Legacy. They did great! We love watching them be so aggressive with soccer! They do NOT back down! They scored goals, got to be with their friends, played on the bigger fields and had daddy and Coach Rommie as their coaches still! It was a good season!
Jared was able to go with Eli on his 11 year old scout 5 mile hike! Poor kid had to race home and then go play in three 7v7 football games! He's a beast! That is all.
Brady Szymanski has enlisted into the Airforce and he had a going away party. This was the first time one of Tiffany's kids were leaving and it was super hard on her. We wanted to get Brady a gift that was meaningful and Emma's cheer coach Markham told me that Challenge Coins were very special to military people. I couldn't order one in time online, I tried Luke AFB, and the two military surplus stores around here, but I kept coming up short. I put it out there on facebook what I was looking for and someone private messaged me that her husband was in the air force and he had duplicate coins and should love to give them to the Brady and she included a special note with them. I told Tiffany what all had happened and so she made sure when we were leaving their party with real fireworks, dinner, cornhole, jenga, etc that Brady opened the gift while we were there. As soon as he saw what they were he started bawling and hugged us over and over. It meant the world to him. But what I loved more about that was that the boys got to witness that, It's important they see things like this and we got to tell the boys the whole story of it. Then he was supposed to take off for the Air force on Monday the day after Easter, but I knew his whole family was getting together on Easter to spend it with him so we got our kids up early that morning, skipped the Easter basket and eggs and we ran over to their house and "flagged" their yard! We hung up the air force flag and put 25 small flags in their ground. They were very touched by it, but again, better than that, was our kids getting to participate and feel good about doing kind things for other people and learning to respect the military!
My cousins all came out to visit Grandma one Friday night - so of course I had to meet up with them and hang out - always a good time!!
On Easter Sunday we started a fun family challenge. We split up into two teams "Winners" (pronounced weee-ners) and "Twinners" (pronounced tweeeeners) and we did a bunch of different competitions against each other, puzzle contest, "STOP" contest, lego building contest, etc. We have continued it on for a couple of weeks too. Luckily right now both teams are tied, but it's been fun to compete against each other!
