Chicago & Volleyball

 

It has been BUSY! Over the last two weeks we have had lots of volleyball, travel for Chris, and travel for me to Chicago! 

First - love the random pictures from school! Lucy also got invited to be on the school's science competition team! My understanding is she will practice with her team and eventually there is a science event. We are excited to see how to works out. 

Lucy put in the work and tried out for several volleyball teams  - we knew it was going to be tough but she made it! I do not love the volleyball tryout process and it is so hard as a parent when you have a kid who wants to do something, but can't just join a team. It literally was 30-40 girls at each club trying out for less than 10 spots. Lucy is beyond thrilled and we are excited to join a new volleyball club!

Val and I jetted off to Chicago for our annual girls trip. We lucked out with beautiful weather, which meant lots of walking and hanging out. 

Chicago trip would not be complete without a stop at the Oven and Pizza Grinder. This place never disappoints! 

I was excited!

I'm so glad we keep our little trips going and it is always fun to get away!

I found out Lucy got offered a contract while she was at school - so I had to decorate a little for her!

Lucy signing her contract! 

Now it is onto Halloween! Maybe we will slow down, but life is busy but good! 

Lucy

 

I realized the very few photos I have from this weekend - are all Lucy. :) Above is Lucy racing out of the car for her last CYO volleyball practice. Now it is open gyms and tryouts this week! This is a very tough age to get on a JO volleyball team, so the competition will be high, but Lucy is focused and we hope it works out!

Also, nothing better than when Lucy makes the school social media posts being Lucy. I think this is science class.

Saturday was Truck-o-Treating at the school and Lucy met up with her friend and had a lot of fun. They are very cute!

Lucy is loving it right now and very excited to get through tryouts and on to Halloween! Heidi has been extremely busy - she has been working, of course school, and lots of Senior stuff. October is just moving along and we are all looking forward to the holidays.

Eventual Week & Weekend

 

We had an eventful week and weekend! First, Lucy was picked of one of 9 girls to attend a special women in STEM event for school. They LOVED it! Basically it was all about the heart and they learned CPR to held a pigs heart. Plus Lucy won a raffle prize including legos, Guardian jerseys and tshirts, Amazon gift card and more. She came home with so much stuff and loved it!

The boys being the boys. 

Heidi frequents the Holy Name Instagram pages:

Friday night was EC vs Holy Name football game and it was EC's homecoming. We decided as a crew to attend the game and it was fun having a mini-St. Jude reunion!

The theme for Holy Name was white out

We stayed on the EC side to watch Izzy cheer!

We finished the evening watching all 15 innings of the Detroit baseball game (Jim is a huge fan) and also trying out Lucy's new CPR dummy she received from the STEM event. 

Saturday - was pumpkins day! We didn't want to wait until the last minute to grab and decorate pumpkins. Plus, it was absolutely gorgeous out - so out on the patio to paint it was! 

Jason joined us to catch up on some volleyball games.

I think the pumpkins turned out cute! We found inspiration on the internet, so we can't claim these as originals, but we still think they are fun and cute!

Then Sunday was Lucy's final game for the season! They played very hard and went to three sets before losing. But runner-up in their division is still pretty darn good! They got to play in the high school EC gym, which was pretty fun. 

Busy weekend but fun!