You Can't Pick Your Neighbors....But I'm Going to Try!

After years of struggling with some very interesting renters next door...

(Remember this?)

http://drescherchaos.blogspot.com/2009/06/reason-i-keep-mace-by-pool.html

We finally had a nice family next door. We were so happy. They came out during daylight hours. They did not have a pit bull that wanted to eat our children. There was no domestic violence. There was not a cop parked at the end of the street monitoring the drug dealing. No SWAT team shootouts. No suspected Coyote house.

Yes, our street has been quiet for 6 months. Loved the family. We will miss them.

They just got evicted cuz the stupid house owner wasn't making the house payment and the house got foreclosed.


Anyone know a nice family looking for a house?
It comes with great neighbors! And a colorful past.

Soccer Star

Zach has had a fun season playing soccer. He has really enjoyed having his Daddy as his coach and our friend Ms. Jenny as the Asst. Coach! It has been an awesome season! They must be AWESOME coaches...the team is undefeated! They are really very good! As an added bonus, Zach also gets to play with some of his best friends.

Good job little buddy! I wish I coulda made it to more of your games. Unfortunatly, the soccer games are mostly in the middle of my sleep time on Saturdays! I got to make it to a few of them, and I got to see some really awesome goals!

Love you Zachy.

P.S. Zachary is on this kick lately where he is always saying "I am allergic to _______." He fills in the blank with things he doesn't like. So last week he says to me "Mom, you know what. I am Allergic to when OTHER people fart."

He gets that from me. I am allergic to that too.

PROM? FINALLY!

I FINALLY got to go to PROM!

Such a fun group!
(Some people I don't know, Shavonne's sista , US!, The Wallace's, The Crandell's, The Mikos', The Cunningham's, The Chou's, and The Updike's)

We all met up at the church. We drove around to a couple of houses to pick up camera's. We drove past our house and HONKED at Liv and Zach. Then we all went to dinner at Claim Jumper. We then went to the PROM (!) and hung out, visited and danced (just a little, I am not much of a dancer.) After the dance we went to Yogurtland for dessert. What great memories! I think we should make this an annual tradition!

So funny, we had just eaten at the real Lombardi's the week before!

Some of my favorite Peeps!

That SWATCH sign is awesome, huh! Yah, I made it!

I was painting like MAD right before I left for New York!

Just being silly with my BESTIE! :)
Thanks for babysitting Livi Lu!

I had to make it authentic! If you know what my first job was in High School, you will know why this is so funny!

Mamma Mia

Just a few of the girls that came to Mamma Mia! What a great night. I had found out I can get a discount if I bought 20 or more tickets to Mamma Mia. I was already going to buy 10 of my own tickets...so I thought I would just sent out a little e-mail to a few of my besties to see if I could round up 10 more people. I rounded up like 30 more people. Seriously a fun evening. So many fun family members and friends...I was in heaven!

For The Record...

For New beginnings Olivia had a darling poster made for her by her friend Emma. It had all of her favorite things on it! The green part is hard to read so FOR THE RECORD it says "My idol My Mom".

I am still smiling!

The Phoenix Zoo

We had a fun day discovering the Phoenix Zoo with our preschool friends! We love hanging our with these fun Moms and kiddos! What a fun day!

Zane's Ragnar Del Sol Race

Love the ? by sleep. I am pretty sure it was appropriate.

Zane and his metal!

Jenny...next stop...Boston Marathon!

The whole entire team. Together they ran almost 200 miles in about 28 hours!

Halfof these peeps rode in a seperate car.

Run Forest, Run!

Aww. Super Cute. Our friends Amy and Leon.

Had to get a picture of Zane's name on the car!

Zane and his carmates! A special kind of exaustion called delerium. I am quite familiar with the feeling!

The sleeping quarters. This explains the ? next to sleep!

Zane's first tat. No worries Mom, it is not real :)

Zane had a great time! He is already talking about next year!