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We had a hot weekend in St. Goerge for the Duel in the Desert Tennis Tournament. I picked the kids up Thursday after school and we headed down south for the weekend. We made great time and got down there in time to eat dinner and then head over to Erin's parent's condo to unpack for the weekend.

We got to the condo and the girls were inside checking it out while I was going to back the car into the empty garage so we could unpack. I was backing in when all of a sudden I heard a huge BAM. I couldn't figure out what I had hit since the garage was empty. I then saw the luggage box on top of the box go flying off the top and land in the driveway. Apparently it is a very low garage and I couldn't go in with the box on the top. It wouldn't be a problem now that the box was off. Not only was the box off the mirror on the side of my car was off (still hanging to the wires) and there was a dent in the front hood of my car where the box hit on the way down. The best part was getting to call Joey and tell him what I had done. He was very understanding, it is hard not to be when I am near tears.

We make lots of attempts to tape the mirror up rather than have it bouncing around. It works a little but eventually falls down and has to be redone. Joey drove up from Las Vegas from a conference on Friday night so he was able to help us. On Sunday morning Joey decides that he is going to do a really good job with the tape and the mirror. He does such a good job when he goes to open the door he realizes that it is taped shut. We then decide to tape with the door open and wrap the tape around to the inside knowing that we won't be able to use the window. Once he can get into the car we decide that we should get some drinks on the way to the tennis matches- McDonalds is right across the street. Supper easy and fast with a drive-thru window. We pull up ready to order and realize that the window won't roll down, at that point Joey just pulled away and put a piece of tape over the window controls. I needed some humor in my life- I was laughing so hard that I had tears rolling down my check.

From there everything went up. We had lots of great tennis matches. Maia, Nicholas and Addison were all playing singles and Nicholas & Addie were playing in doubles. We watched tennis- ate pasta- watched more tennis- ate more pasta- watched more tennis. It was fun to be down there with all of their friends. It didn't matter what tennis courts you were at there were always people around we know that the kids love to run around with. All the kids played great in the tournament but Addie was able to have the best results and placed 4th place overall in the tournament which had players from about five different states.

The kids did get coupons to the Pasta House for playing in the tournament so we went there for pasta but apparently ate upstairs at the Pizza House so didn't get to use them. The waitress didn't even notice the difference on the coupons but the cashier did. They have the same logo and same building and everything, we thought we were being so good to use the coupons. Needless to say we went back the next day and went downstairs for the Pasta House.


As soon as we got down we rushed to pick up Macy and make sure she was okay. We realize now she is not the brightest dog when she came back inside after being home and had porcupine quills in her mouth again. Apparently she killed the porcupine the other day and went back to eat it. This time rather than take her to the vet Joey sat on Macy, Nikko held her paws down and Maia held a bone in her mouth so I could pull the quills out of her gums and tongue. There were only a few, unlike the other day, so it wasn't that bad and only took about 30 minutes.