Catch up...... (Blogger is making me underline everything AGAIN!)

Well Cabo was AWSOME! All I can say is .... "Hurricane!?..... What Hurricane!?"

This is a picture I took as soon as we got to our hotel room. As you can see, it is hazy and a little windy. I'll take that over totally blowing and raining like I thought.

Here's what it looked like the rest of the time we were there. This is a picture of the marina/Pier.

Another picture from the hotel pools. The only residual effect of the hurricane was the huge waves. Don't swim in this ocean. This is from the 7th floor.........

which has this bridge to get across to the restaurant on site The pictures below are from the view standing on the bridge.

This was from our balcony the last day we were there.

Here was what our schedule was......

1st day- Left Denver at 7:30 AM. Land in LAX around 9am. More than half our party got on the next plane to Cabo, while the rest of us didn't leave until around 2:30PM. So, Dan's boss bought the 11 of us that were left a day pass to the Admirals Club (The nice club that you get to walk through the cool frosted glass doors. Or like the Tina Fey commercial for American Express). We watched the Texas/OU game and ate alot of Chex mix, cookies and little muffins that were FREE. Dan's boss smuggled in a couple orders of nachos from On-The -Border. I got to start reading the books I brought. (i jumped on the twilight band wagon. Discussion Later) Left LAX.Our only detour because of the hurricane was instead of flying down the coast to Cabo, we had to fly like we were going to Arizona and then come across Mexico into Cabo. We landed. Got our stuff to the hotel. Had to get FOOD! We ate at a place called the Shrimp Factory. So we ate lobster and lots of shrimp. Met everyone else at Cabo Wabo (Sammy Hagar's Club) It was sooo busy because he was there that weekend, because it was his birthday and he was going to perform on the Mon. night we were there. So we went across the street to Hemingways. We watched everyone enjoy themselves and then called it a night.

2nd Day- Got up, when we wanted to. Ate breakfast, when we wanted to. Hung out at the pool, for as long as we wanted to. Do you see a pattern? At the pool we played some water volleyball with the "Farmers" people that were there. Dan is such a trooper because I know that laying out in the hot sun is NOT his favorite thing to do. But he does it for me. I love him for that! The pool side bar did have some football games on, so every once in a while he would go sit under the shaded bar and watch some of the games. And, of course, I read. I finished twilight that day and started "New Moon". That night we had reservations at Lorenzillo's. I had steak and lobster, YUM! One thing about Cabo is that everyone is so layed back. It took us 3 hours to have dinner and then they don't bring you a check unless you ask for it. On the way back to the hotel, we eyed a DQ so of course we had to stop and get some ice cream. I know.... not very "mexican".

Day 3- Dan had to be up and out of the hotel room by about 6:30AM so he could meet up with everyone that was deep sea fishing that day. So I slept. Then I just repeated the day before. I did hang out with a wife of a District Manager that I knew, even before Dan started working for Farmers. Like I said before... repeat of the day before. Suntan, pool, volleyball, read. Dan didn't get back until about 4:30/5Pm. Out of the 7 guys that went, Dan and 2 other guys were the only ones that didn't puke most the day on the boat. They did catch a bunch of fish! One 165 lb. yellow fin tuna, one 80 lb yellow fin tuna, a Marlin (Catch and release, but the guy that caught it has an official certificate that he caught it) and a bunch of Mahi-Mahi. I will post a picture of that later. When you catch fish there, the hotel will prepare it and cook it for you. So that night at the "Farmers" dinner. We had some tuna and mahi-mahi. It was SO DELICIOUS! I am not a fish eater, but when it is so fresh from the water it is yummy. That night after dinner, we went with most of the group to hang out in town.

Day 4 - Got up and had to leave.

I had a great time! Especially because I got to hang out with my hubby almost the whole time! (We missed the kids, but really...... it was nice to have a little vacation)

Bummed.... VERY bummed

Dan and I are going to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico this weekend (Thanks Farmers). He came home yesterday and asked me if I knew that a hurricane was headed right for there. It's right on the tip of the peninsula. So I have been frantically looking at the weather forecasts to see how that is going to affect our get-a-way. Not looking so good. I was hoping to come home all bronzed and beautiful, but I don't think that rain and wind help me with that dream.

WHY NOW NORBERT! (what a stupid name for a storm. It's a stupid storm anyway cuz its ruining my vacation.) Keep you updated.

More Trauma...... ( I don't know why blogger is making me underline everything, sorry)

Well, Dan has been out of town since Sun. (he got back late last night). So our/my week has been very tiring. Me, and kids were getting on each others nerves throughout the week. Well the day finally comes when Dad is coming home, and just hours before our missed and loved dad/husband gets home, I end up in Urgent care with #3 ( I have decided to not name kids, I am in a paranoid state. So the are numbered by birth order). I was too nervous to go to the ER again (that would be 2x in 2 weeks) because I didn't want a "file" to be started about , "Why have there been so many accidents in the Lewis household".

Here's what happened...... #4 and #3 are jumping off the half wall onto the couches. I put an end to that, so they have to go find something else to do that's CRAZY. They start racing around through the kitchen, around the stairs into the dining room, back into the kitchen. That is the loop. #3 and #4 are very competitive and start pushing each other to get ahead, #3 starts taking #4's beloved blanket and teasing #4 to come get it. According to #3 he was just running SO fast and bonked his face into the dining room chair.
I was trying bake some cookies and make dinner, so all I heard was a big thud and a blood curdling scream. #3 ran into the kitchen to get sympathy. At first I started giving him the lecture about how silliness spoils, but as I was watching him cry his cheek started to literally blow up like a balloon! So in my exhausted state I started freaking out. I have seen swelling before, but never that quickly and to watch the color change in his cheek within seconds! I called Aunt that lives close by on my way to urgent care, to check on the kids I left at home. I called #1 to get the cookies out of the oven and to turn it off.
To shorten this down...... #3 was checked out and x-rayed. No fractures to be seen, but wake him in the middle of the night to make sure he doesn't have a concussion. Ice often and give ibuprofen for swelling and pain.
The pics below don't do him justice. He looks like he is trying to smuggle food in his cheek for later.

If you look to your left you can compare cheeks and see some of the swelling. He wouldn't take the cookie out of his mouth.

#4 had to have his picture taken too. His "trauma" is healing nicely.( posted before)

#3 is so funny while getting examined. He was happy to tell everyone what happened and to check out the x-ray machine. NO MORE TRAUMA AT OUR HOUSE, PLEASE!

Football Homecoming.....

So here are the sashes and ribbons I made for the cheerleaders. (The picture is on it's side) All the girls were the homecoming queen.

Here's another pic of them hanging on a hanger. I put Velcro at the bottoms of the sashes in hopes they will stay on.

This is just SOME of the banners I made for each of the boys.

Here's what they looked like all rolled up. I was going to drive around to they boys houses during practice and hang them on their doors, but I came to my senses and just gave them to their parents at practice.

This is what they looked like with the boys names and their number.

This is right before the game. Getting all FIRED UP!

Some random practice shots.

Cheerleaders holding the banner for the boys to run through.

The game was GREAT! We beat the other team by a bunch ( I can't remember the exact score). Everything went well until after the game, when the head coach from the other team tried to pick fights with our coaches. It was a good lesson for our kids to see what a sore looser looks like and to never act like one, EVER!