Thinkin' of Delayin'

We forgot to mention our woohoo last week...our exchange student is finally gone! He begged his exchange program and his parents and left five days early, last Friday. Our entire family is relieved to have him gone, to finally have just us and be able to focus on us as a family. Friday night, we went out to see Bridge to Terabithia, which was a fantastic movie, definitely a tearjerker.

Then, as previously mentioned, we went to the Families Rock! concert on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. On Sunday, Aurora and Karma decided that we need a family newspaper which will keep our family updated on what is going with ourselves. We're going to try to include some of their content here on our site, to tell it from the children's perspectives. They published their first paper today and we will try to get it scanned in and posted on here as a picture. If it doesn't come through, we'll just type out some of the content.

As for the title of this post, this has to do with our vacation. We still haven't gotten Sam's license back yet and we'd really like to have two drivers before we hit the road. Also, our good friends at Families Rock! are producing a concert with the legendary Vallejo on April 14th and we would really like to attend. The subject has been broached to 4/5 of the family (Caed is always the last to know) and we will be taking a group vote sometime this week or weekend. So far though, we all feel torn in two because we love our friends, would love to be there to support them in their most awesome venture yet, plus catch a kick-butt concert, but on the flip-side, we're really feeling the need for the road trip. We think we're coming to the conclusion that putting off the road trip a week and a half won't really hurt and we'll also be able to make sure we get Sam's license.

Well, in the infamous words of Porky Pig, "That's all Folks!"

Rockin' Concert!!

We attended a rockin' concert today! Put on by our very good friends at Families Rock (www.familiesrock.com), it featured Farmer Jason and Matt the Electrician. We showed up a bit early because we had made some decorations for the show. Farmer Jason was on first and the guy was cool. His music was awesome, child appropriate, but fun for adults. Someone accidentally pulled the fire alarm during his portion of the show, so we all poured out of Antone's onto the sidewalk and partly into the street. He was such a good sport and a talented musician, he kept the show going right out there on the sidewalk! We got his autograph and bought his new CD. He thanked us for helping keep the energy going outside.

Matt the Electrician rocked. His music rocked a little harder than Jason's, and was more for the older set. It was definitely very dance-able. Families Rock decided to have a family dance contest, so of course the Dharma Family had to participate. We didn't want to win, just wanted to dance. It was a little hard for Andrea because of her foot, but she hobbled through some country type dancin'. All-in-all, four-fifths of the Dharma Family had a great time (Sam couldn't make it to the show) and we left just feeling the energy!