The Lieslands

I have been hearing about geocaching for a while now and this morning we got the whole family out to learn more about it and to try it out. We had a good time and when we got home we were excited to get out and find a cache.

Susan left this morning for another week-long training in Boulder, so it is just me and the kids this week. We started off with a busy Saturday:

1. Dropped Susan off at the airport.
2. Picked up bagels and ate them in the car.
3. Stopped by the Sports Authority to get a new grip for my tennis racquet, which I think I may have put on upside-down but it works.
4. Went to the park where the kids played with the Reagens while Nate and I played tennis.
5. Home for lunch.
6. Hike with Andrew’s Cub Scout den at Walnut Woods State Park, including a fair amount of time playing in the river.
7. At this point the boys went home with Nate and I took Mari and Hope with me to Costco. Elliot is spending the night at Mimi & Papa’s and Andrew is spending the night at the Reagens’.
8. We finally made it home and I threw the girls in the bath while I emptied the car and made dinner.
9. Dinner.
10. Cut the grass.
11. Dessert.
12. Books
13. Bed.

Not too shabby. Hopefully it will slow down a little from here.

Our 2012 NCAA Tournament brackets are ready to go! This is the first year that Andrew filled his out all by himself.

March has never been so kind to us and we are going to do our best to enjoy it!

It has been a busy week in the Liesland house. From Sunday to Tuesday afternoon we were responsible for all 3 Reagen kids and from Monday to Thursday we had Andy staying with us. Monday night we had 7 kids sleeping in our house, with only 2 parents. Overall it was a fun week and I think everyone enjoyed the craziness.

We went to check on Andrew last night before bed and Susan warned me that I had no clue what I was in for. I certainly did not.

I finally got around to uploading the rest of our photos from 2011 – https://liesland.com/photos/2011_II/ .

Tonight at dinner we were sitting around, talking about our house. We were talking about what our house was like when we were first looking at it and when we first moved in. Then we moved on to all of the things we updated and wanted to update. Then, just as the conversation seemed to be moving on, there was a loud boom and the whole house shook. We were all on edge and I walked around the entire house trying to figure out what had happened. We asked some of our neighbors and no one else experienced anything.

The boom seemed as though there was a sonic boom, in our house. It was deeper and more forceful than something like a box or dresser falling. The whole house literally shook and shuttered.