Happy Birthday & Spirit Week

Another week done and this one was filled with funny school spirit day costumes and my birthday! 

Trying to get photos of Heidi in the morning is an olympic event. She had her last spirit week for school and it was very entertaining. Each class had a different theme each day. My favorite may have been dressing like the elderly. I ordered her the long PJs and for the record - she has worn them every night since - including asking to have them cleaned prior to bed. She loves them! 

 

The Rhyme day was was hilarious because I didn't know what she was doing. I came in the morning to check on her, and found her drawing her own beard. So funny.

They are Maternity, Paternity (I think) and Fraternity - something like that - it's called Rhyme without a Reason.

Remy turned 7 this week! 

She was Rapunzel another day - but we didn't get a photo of the whole costume. 

Onto my birthday! We had a lovely weekend - including going to the movies, eating out, and hanging out with our good friends. Plus, Jackie and I share a birthday and it always seems to work out to hang out for it. 

I told them to pretend to like each other...

Hanging out at the Belciks

Momochos (which is an amazing higher-end Mexican place here) - never disappoints and was amazing! Once again, we failed to take pictures of the food!

This week is busy, but short for all! Heidi and Lucy only have 3 days of school and we are ready to head off to spring break on Friday. Bring on vacation!

Quick Hello

A quick hello... I do not have a ton of pictures from the week/weekend as we were all busy getting things done! Lucy, her coaches, and her teammates all decided to cut practice short for some team bonding. They took advantage of a free ice cream cone day from Dairy Queen, which is about a 2 minute walk from their practice facilities. We are so happy Lucy is enjoying volleyball and her coaches are perfect for her, especially Avery (pictured here) who has really helped Lucy improve!

Clean Rizzo...

While Lucy and I ran errands to purchase items needed for our upcoming Spring Break trip, Chris, Noah, and Heidi went off to find a prom suit! Chris didn't take any pictures during the suit try-on but did manage to capture these lovely lunch pictures. I love that they all wear goggles all the time. It is pretty funny to see. 

And we were just trying to get more items off our list done - including designing and printing graduation announcements. So many things on the "to do" for graduation, but we are trying to chip away at it. Just a couple months to go! 

Busy Week...

We had a very busy but great week. First we received some photos from pucks & paws. I was bribing the dogs with popcorn to try to look towards the camera :)

Heidi had a random day off school and she decided to clean her car. I find it funny as she is wearing a pool floaty because it is still senior assassin and she doesn't want to get out!  As long as they are wearing goggles or a pool floaty - they can't get out and Heidi wants the money! 

Chris was in Houston all week for work enjoying BBQ, the rodeo, a concert and more - he said while it was fun - too little of sleep!

Heidi and I are trying to find the right shoes for her prom dress and she forgot her goggles and pool floaty at home - so we made a quick stop at 5 below to pick up some protection. She was using my phone as a mirror and I had to take some pictures - ha. 

Remy after his weekly bath. It keeps his skin looking great but he hates them. Treats help.

Heidi making the school instagram again.

Then the weekend was kind of crazy... We have had crazy winds the last few days and it even knocked out power around here. We were up at 4am to drive to Pennsylvania for a volleyball tournament and we forced Heidi to come too! 

Driving there, there were lots of signs of wind damage and power out. Some spots were so dark, it was eerie and then other places it is like the power outage caused weird pulsing of the lights. It was hard to drive through with the strobe lights. After we made it to the place (University of Pennsylvania - Edinboro) - we parked and waited...and waited...and waited. Finally we were able to find someone from the University and it turns out they lost power and the place we were going to play (a giant dome) didn't have heat and was 40 degrees inside with ice patches on the courts. Even with the power turned back on - the facility guy knew this dome wouldn't be a reasonable temp that day. We waited around as the coaches and the university were trying to figure out how to still have this tournament.  

After about 2 hours and some teams volunteered to leave the tournament - they found random courts around the campus. We were in some Physical Education building on campus, some were in the basement of the student union and some other places. It was kind of crazy, but honestly, the gym was very spacious that we were in. It was just our pool teams and it turned out ok. It kind of felt like playing at a high school, but we survived. I personally will always prefer the ability to bring our own chairs vs. being in bleachers. 

Lucy's team played okay. It was probably the roughest tournament we have been to for the team. They were just kind of off, not communicating, and lots of mistakes. It happens. I swear any March tournament is just jinxed for volleyball.  I was proud of Lucy as she also started a little rough, but reset and ended up playing well at the end. That's the most we can ask for - how you handle it when it goes not as expected. The team ended with some real close sets but I think everyone was happy to leave after such a crazy start.

We were waiting for all the other pools to finish before finding out if we had to switch courts etc. We got lucky and didn't have to leave PLUS it gave them a much needed break - complete with a long volleyball peppering session with Heidi. We could watch these two pass the ball back and forth for a long time. Heidi won't be able to come to any more tournaments for Lucy, so we wanted to make sure she came to one more. 

Another busy week this week and before we know it, it will be Spring Break!