Last two weeks...another long one, but what did you expect

Ok, the last two weeks... how crazy, only getting us ready for the next couple... It started off with 2 weekends ago going to play paintball with a couple of the guys from our Bible Bowl team. We borrowed supplies from one of the ones who wasn't able to play due to harvest. (thanks Paul, the gun was great)

Then that Thursday, we headed off to Indianapolis for the national Bible Bowl tournament. We had lots of fun and got to see numerous things around Indianapolis. First of all the Speedway...

We stayed downtown Indianapolis at the Embassy Suites. We were about 2 blocks from the War Memorail. It was pretty amazing. Here is a far away shot.

Then Dan, myself, and another sponsor Susannah decided to pull a prank on the lead sponsor and got these hair clips to make her think we dyed our hair... it took about 5 days for her to figure out they were fake.

Here is Dan and I the first day of competition.

One night, we took the whole crew (35 of us minus 1) to a WNBA game. Everyone had a great time!

Dan, Susannah and me...

At halftime they had a 1 armed juggler, it was pretty amazing...

One night, we took all the kids out to the old spaghetti factory. It was fun and most had never been to one. (which I just somehow deleted the picture, so you just have to imagine it...)

Then on the way home, we (Dan, Susannah, and I) decided to play another prank on the sponsor. It was histarical. We go the other two female sponsors in on it and had a great laugh. The kids were dying to know what was going on. It was fun.

On the last day, a couple of us were walking to where we had the vans parked, and I saw these smokestacks. I thought they were cool, especially with the stairs wrapped around them.

We got back from Indianapolis on Wednesday night. Went to work for the rest of the week. Then on Saturday, Dan worked and I went to the nephews Trevor and Brendan's swim meet. It was a lot of fun, but extremely hot. It was like 103 degrees at 10:45 a.m. It was hot!!! They took a break and let everyone get into the pool if they wanted to, clothed and all. So, in went our niece Macy, nephew Grant, and myself. It felt good, sopping wet, fully clothed.

The boys were having their names put across their back, and Grant was feeling left out and kept grabbing the marker and trying to write on himself. So, I did it for him, and let me tell you, he thouht he was big stuff!

Here is Trever getting ready to race and also him doing the butterfly. They have district meet next week, which Trevor qualified for in every stroke he races and Brendan (who is in an older age group) qualified in 2 or 3 of his strokes. Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures of Brendan because I timed races the whole time he raced. Sorry...