Happy Birthday to Me

I had a lovely birthday weekend - filled with some fun, relaxing, friends, and family. On Saturday we even finally was able to hang out with our friends as Jackie and I share a birthday. We had a great time.

Not a ton of pictures as I was OFF from mom duty this weekend... The gifts were funny - Heidi used Apple Pay (so I bought) my gift and then she asked for some of it back - it was pretty funny. Then Lucy has been excited for her gift and she wrote little sayings or thank you and put them in a jar - but she realized how many she would have to write - so she instead - filled the jar with items she had stolen from me over the last couple of months and I had been asking about. This kid. 

We had a few tequilas and drinks at my birthday dinner - so Heidi driver was a must! This was a big deal as this was the first time she drove Chris' car. She had fun with it and liked how sporty it was. 

And completely random. Chris was looking for a manual to our ice machine and instead found his DECA project and medals he won in high school. hahaha

 

MEQ Indy - Volleyball

 

Why not go to a 1000-team tournament at a National level in Indy for the weekend... that's what we did. Is our team at that level? Nope. We maybe could have been when they originally made the schedule and didn't lose 3 key players...just maybe we could have been more competitive. We were committed and we went - we knew it was going to be really really tough but we were there for some fun and hopefully some good moments of volleyball. Also, some teammates of Heidi haven't ever seen a true National level tournament. I think they were in shock :) 

We had fun with it - PLUS after the 1st set of the very 1st game - the coaches called an audible and made Heidi the libero. Heidi earned it and continued to be the Libero through the whole 3-day tournament. She owned that position this weekend.

Heidi had a blast - she honestly did great. Yeah - they really didn't win and they had great moments of going neck and neck  - even with several teams that ended up 3rd and 5th in the tournament. Heidi had some great saves.

The coaches did the joke of finding a really old picture and made each player sign it. It was too funny. 

We did some team bonding and went to an arcade game place. Even Lucy did the scary dark ride and axe throwing!

We had some time to kill before we had to return to the tournament and Heidi begged for Waffle House... I'm glad they enjoyed it... me... not so much.

Day 2!

And finally Day 3

We have one more tournament in a couple of weeks and then Heidi's club career is OVER. She could play next year, but doesn't think she will want to make that commitment. I wonder if Heidi will be sad next tournament or not! We will see...