This is a funny story about how desperate sports fans can get... Carl had optometry meetings in Indianapolis in September, so we turned it into a "couple's" getaway. The Indianapolis Colts (Super Bowl winners) have just built a brand new stadium. We were dying to see what it looked like, but their first game in the stadium was Sunday night. We flew out Sunday morning, so how could we get in? There were no tours or ways to see inside. Then, we heard through the grapevine, that there were two high school football games being played in the Colts stadium Friday night. The tickets were $20 each (we've never paid THAT much for a H.S. game) but we were determined to see what this stadium looked like. We were not disappointed. The retractable roof was amazing, and the stadium was ENORMOUS. It seats 65,000 and is over 1.8 million square feet. It has the only moveable window in the NFL. We spent Friday night watching H.S. football inside this stadium and had a great time! Oh the things sports nuts will do for fun?! Carl and I make a great couple, huh?! :)

One of the girls' favorite activities is to create Polly Pocket houses out of old shoeboxes. By getting scrapbook paper and cutting out pictures of furniture from magazines and gluing them on, they can get really cute and creative! Here's a sample of Mackenzie's rooms and her change of Polly Pocket clothes. We store all the rooms under the girls' beds.

I needed to take this picture as this was our life this past spring. Morgan and Carly played AAU (club) volleyball while Mackenzie and Caitlin were on different soccer teams. Maren, of course... was our little cheerleader and tagged along to all the different games. During this time, I think I spent my days sitting in a corner in a straightjacket rocking back and forth and mumbling as I could hardly keep up with all the girls and their activities!

Welcome home Elder Kruger from your mission in Nova Scotia, Canada! We are proud of you!

Just a couple of beach BUMS!

Out on the Salt Flats, a bunch of weird "statues" could be found posing for tourists driving by the Interstate. The statues were rewarded by numerous honks!

At Fisherman's Wharf, we discovered a piece of home when we saw a boat with the name of NEWCASTLE! Yeah!

Walking up famous Lombard street, a.k.a. the "crookedest street in the world" was quite memorable as we witnessed an old man on a moped crash into some bushes as he maneuvered his way down the street. AHHH!

The Golden Gate Bridge was so exciting for the Cottrell girls to experience!