Weekend With the Boys

This weekend was a busy weekend for us.  Ben's mission homecoming talk was on Sunday and Sofia (our niece) had her 2nd birthday on Saturday.  For the next few weeks Andrew and I are house sitting at the Day Treatment house so we've had three teenage boys that we live with.  We ended up bringing them along to Sofia's birthday party and we had alot of fun.  We made a stop in the mountains, ate some pizza, watched football, had cake and ice cream and then played some backyard football with all of the siblings.   It was really fun having the boys with us and they did great around our family.
After football we went to the church to practice the song that all of the Vera siblings were planning on singing at Ben's homecoming.  I was the only sibling who wasn't going to sing (I don't think I've ever sang seriously in front of a group of people).  The boys and I sat there and listened to them practice and by the time we left we all had it memorized.  Over the past few weeks Andrew's family had been teasing me about singing with them, but it was always kind of a joke.  Then, on the way home Andrew asked me if I would sing with them and he seemed really sincere.  I tried coming up with an excuse, saying that I couldn't remember the words and then all the boys started belting it and convinced me that I should try.  I contemplated it the rest of the night and even the morning of.  As we were getting in the car to head to Grantsville Sunday morning I told Andrew that if the CD the song was on would play in my car then it was a sign and I would have to sing.  (My CD player hasn't worked in over 4 years)  Well guess what! It decided to work that day and I couldn't go back on my word, so I sang.  It really wasn't that bad, other than forgetting the words for a second.

We took some pictures while we were up in the mountains.  We couldn't post any of the boys because of confidentiality reasons, but they were there.