A fantastic, wonderful, crazy, so-good, very-awesome week!

(Not to be confused with a "terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad day"!!)

Okay... time for me to fess up about Rob and I's totally hectic week! I shall preface this post by stating that we live on the 2nd floor of a 3 story apartment building, with neighbors to our right, our left, above us and below us. Our particular apartment, #208, has ONLY 2 bedrooms, and was--for some strange reason unknown to us--built with extremely thin walls and floors.

Getting the picture?

Okay, now put 11 people into it for a week.

There were people on the love sac...

people in front of the TV...people on the couch...playing cards on the porch...and eating on the floor...

(There were also sleeping people stuffed into various closets and storage facilities as well, although I failed to document those adequately.)

Needless to say, our little apartment took some abuse. (Luckily there were two bathrooms... although that factor did not solve the lack of hot water problem...) To be fair, the fam ended up getting a hotel after their short jaunt to MO to see church sites, and that did help with the noise control. But it was still hectic!!However, the abuse our poor apartment took was NOTHING compared to the abuse our poor neigh boors suffered. I had to keep reminding my parents that I had to live in the same building as these people after they went home, and eventually the gravity of this situation set in... however not before the whole building was forced to go buy ear plugs in order to sleep through the Wii tournaments that were taking place 24/7.

It was an adventure, to say the least! My dear family decided to take their spring break in Lincoln Nebraska this year! Why Lincoln Nebraska? I have no idea! See when I think spring break, I think sun tan lotion, sand and margaritas... but spring break has many faces. For some its a dreary cold March day in Nebraska... see how cool I am?! I attract people wherever I go! Heehee. Just kidding... of course. This trip was especially fun for me because my little baby brudder Paul even showed up for the spring break road trip...

This is quite a great accomplishment in and of itself since Paul is usually too busy stuck in a musty weight room with a bunch of butt-slapping boys training for football to come on any family vacations.

We had fun going to the zoo, going out to eat, playing card games and sword fighting with Rob's nerf swords. But the undeniable highlight of the trip were the Wii tournaments! Mom won't let David and Scott get their own Wii (can't imagine why!), so they thoroughly gorged themselves in high tech digital gaming for a good chunk of the time. Rob was delighted to have Wii buddies... apparently I don't show enough interest in it for his taste!

Here are a few more pics from the week:

The fearless leader... and his apprentices...Sylvi's closed captioning: "Like what, seriously?"

We love you family! It was a crazy, hectic outta this world kind of week, but the funny memories will last forever, and we're glad you came! ( :