by teresa

The weather around here is so wonderful.

70's , breezy, sunny.

Chris and I were talking about how we were out enjoying our yard the entire weekend.

Well...him mowing, weeding and shoveling the two truck fulls of mulch we got dumped.....and us us enjoying the yard from our lawn chairs.

We had everyone over (all the cousins and both sets of grandparents) both nights of the weekend.

Saturday for Nick's birthday and Sunday for a cookout.

Nick grilled chicken and made bbq chicken sandwiches. mmmmmmm

But the hit of the weekend was the bocce ball set g'pa George brought over.

That is a really fun game.

And it sure brought out the crazy competitive side in some of the family....I won't say who...I'll just say the name rhymes with Maty.

One funny thing that happened during the games is that KiKi the dog kept fetching the bocce balls after they were thrown.

We also had a dunking contest...which I will not post pictures of since most of them are of the guys with their shirts up around their neck or their pants coming down.

Chris would not be happy with me. :)

This week is our soccer tournament.

It is our first experience in it, as you had to be in the higher league to compete.

We were a little down going into it because the team has been "asleep at the wheel" the last week or so. I think that's what made last nights win that much sweeter. Yippe! We played a very good team...and we won 1 to 0. Phew! Ben scored the 1 goal. Go Ben!

We made posters and signs and screamed and cheered and really got the kids excited. Tonight we travel to another field to try and move up. I think we need more posters!

Here's some of my favorite photos of the weekend (sorry there are so many).