Crazy Days

It's been a while since I've posted - lots of happenings around the house. Soccer season has started again - two nights a week. The kids are good sports about it - the others will play while they wait for their brother's game to finish. Randy and I were impromptu coaches for Tyler's game last Tuesday night. I coached the first half and Randy coached the second half. All the parents went up to Randy afterward and asked if he was coaching next week - was I not good at it? :) We'll see what happens this week. Our coach became MIA. Don't ask because I don't know what happened. All I know is that we now have the goal in the back of the van. Tyler's coach is a very nice man, but he doesn't communicate well and he came down to the game in a hurry, dropped off snacks, and took off.


We had Austin's 7th birthday on Sunday - Easter Sunday. It turned into a birthday weekend. We went to Benihana's on Friday night and had dinner, Randy took the kids bowling on Saturday afternoon and we followed it up with "Horton hears a Who". It was really cute - Randy and I did, however, fall asleep in the movie - we do this every kid's movie we go to. What I saw of it, I thought was cute. We then had a big dinner yesterday for Easter - Austin chose the menu - we had deep fried turkey, and all the fixings we usually have for Thanksgiving. McKell and Tyler LOVED the turkey and had two plates full. We had cousins come over - Jodi, Kevin and their kids, Mary and Jake, and Vic. Autumn said dinner was delicious - I think she only ate Monkey bread - when I saw her she had so much in her mouth Tyler said, "Autumn, I think you may choke" . Maybe her mom never feeds her rolls :) Just kidding, Jodi! Safari joined in the festivities and drank about 4 cups of oil (the deep fried turkey oil). She is now re-thinking her decision as she is banished from the house for the next five days.

Today we are at home, watching men dig up our front yard looking for a water leak. We got a call on Friday night, from the city, saying that since November 2007 we've been using over a MILLION gallons of water. They shut off our water (since we weren't home and they couldn't get a hold of us) and wanted to come out and try to find the problem. So, Friday night, we had a man from the city over for three hours trying to pinpoint where the leak in the pipes is. He wasn't quite sure, so we had another company come out on Saturday and he told us most leaks are in the first 10 feet of the pipes coming out of the house to the street. So, his work crew came out this morning and started digging in the area 90% of the leaks occur - our leak wasn't there, so he is now having his crew dig up the side of the house where the pipe goes into the house, in hopes the pipe connection that is faulty is there. If not, they will have to bring out another specialist to start pinpointing and mapping through all the areas of where the pipe is and start trying to find the leak - I hope it's not under the concrete patio courtyard we have in the front. That could be a nightmare.

Anyway, Randy and I were very, very sad on Friday night when we thought through what could be wrong. Initially we were upset at the outrageously expensive water bill, then our thoughts turned to where a MILLION gallons of water has gone to - we were thinking foundation damage, etc. It was a somber night. We don't think there is foundation damage. The professional said if there was, we'd see water in the basement, bubbling water by the house and we haven't seen any of that. We are still going to get the foundation tested, and I hope the water pipe is an easy fix. Then, we'll have to still deal with a water bill that is crazy. Life... But, in the grand scheme of things, this is nothing. I'd take water leaks any day compared to trials of others we know.