Another CRAZY weekend.....

Well, It's Monday.... and we had a very fun, exciting, busy, surprisingly smooth weekend! Mark got the boys Friday afternoon and everyone settled in... we all sat in the living room and just watched some tv- in the new house, there's so much more room- we all fit comfortably! We took about 50 pictures of everyone wrestling, Tyler doing push-ups with V on his back- break dancing, and laughing til we cried!! Saturday, we all went to Boyd to watch the girls run barrels- Sofie and V did great! Sofie actually kind-of trotted around her barrels- all alone- no lead- V was lead by Mad's horse and made a perfect pattern! We got it all on video- they both got 1st place ribbons- all the novice riders do- so cool.... and then Mad- 1st place in the 2D- which is right where she needed to be- AMAZING run!!! The boys were pretty much bored to tears- but it didn't last long- then we took the whole family to dinner at Taco Bell- the only place we could ever go as a group- we all ate for under 30 bucks!! We went to Joe's Crabshack ONCE and it was $250.00!!! Then I took the girls on home and Mark took the boys shopping and Chance picked out his birthday gift. Sunday we made ribs- Chance's favorite food, for his birthday dinner- we cheered on the Cowboys- we are all football lover's- had hot apple-pie with ice cream for dessert- screamed the happy birthday song to Chance- which he hated- then took the boys back to Callisburg at 8 last night. Whew!!!! I'm actually glad it's Monday! ~wink~
P.S. I forgot the best part- I have been wanting a pic of all 9 of us- almost impossible I know- but we talked them all into it- told them it was for our Christmas card- I set the 10 second timer on the camera- ran to my position- counted down- yelled 'smile' - and a miracle happened!!!! One shot was all it took!!! We got our first family portrait!!!! So ecstatic!!! Will post when I get home today!!!