A packed weekend with a lot of fun!

We had another busy weekend around here, but having today off gives us a little bit of down time!

Friday evening Robert had weight lifting and then had to play in the pep band at the high school basketball game.  Thomas had an extra basketball practice so we squeezed in a quick dinner of grilled cheese and baked beans before everyone headed their separate ways.  Catherine and I hung out watching TV, although I was little disappointed I couldn't get her to really chat with me...maybe next time!  Shortly after everyone arrived home it was bed time.

Saturday morning was a very early wake up...4:30!  I had to be at the rec center at 6AM for my volunteer shift at the swim/dive meet.  We hosted 33 teams and it is our biggest (and gratefully, only) fundraiser of the year.  It was a very busy morning and I ended up staying longer than scheduled to help out and didn't get home until 11AM.  In the meantime, Andrew had taken the boys to our former town and to Robert's scout meeting.  We all seem to agree that Thomas will be joining this group as well and he needed to check it out.  Shortly after we all made it home, Andrew took Robert to the rec center for his dive warm ups and after grabbing a quick bite to eat, Andrew was out the door with Thomas to his game and I was out with Catherine to her game...divide and conquer time since they both played at the same time in different locations.  Catherine's team played well and they won, but Thomas's team wasn't so lucky.  Following that we met up quickly so that Andrew could take the kids to the local university women's basketball game (they were having dollar days with only $1 admission so we decided to take advantage).  I got back to the dive meet as quickly as I could, but unfortunately it was over and we had missed it all.  I hated that, but I know that Robert understood.  It's just really tough when there are three of them with activities all at the exact same time!  Since he had finished earlier than expected we decided to join the others at the women's game, and by the time we were home for dinner I was pretty worn out.  We enjoyed our evening together with home made pizza and episodes of "Friends".  It really was a fun day.

Yesterday Andrew took the younger two to church while I went back to the rec center for yesterday's volunteer shift.  I took Robert with me because although he wasn't participating, he has a sweet friend-who-is-a-girl-but-isn't-allowed-to-date-so-we-don't-call-her-girlfriend who was swimming so I took him so he could watch her.  When the meet was over we were able to be home for a couple of hours and get some things accomplished before heading out the door to visit my grandmother.  My mom joined us and we brought dinner in, and we just all enjoyed the visit so very much.  We stayed much later than I had anticipated, but I don't regret that one bit.  When we finally made it home we just hung out, and this morning there was sleeping in...which we all enjoyed as well!