Just the Weekend...

It was a normal weekend for us. Some errands, some volleyball, watched sports, and just relaxed. Heidi sent us some photos from school, well those of her nighttime activities. ha. She is doing really well. She loves her classes, has figured out her schedule and when to study etc and then also making lots of friends too. We are so happy she is loving college and settling in. 

This week was back to school, where we met all the teachers and the school reminds us of all the rules and processes for things. We have figured out that this is our 14th year at this school and we mainly went to it to show support and hang out with the other parents. For the students that have been at the school for the entire time, they had their old Kindergarten random picture up, which was adorable!

Saturday, Lucy had to use her Target gift card from her birthday (thanks Uncle Bob & Aunt Lauren) and bought some more fun things as well as we decided to all get a lego set to complete. On a funny note, Lucy and I stayed together shopping while Chris ran to another part of the store to get what he wanted. I guess he proceeded to make a couple laps of the store trying to find us, so much that a Target worker asked is he needed help. hahahahaha. Yes - we all had our phones on us and he just didn't try calling or texting yet. They all had a good laugh once I claimed him again in the aisle. He was disapppinted in himself for not playing into it more and getting them to make an annoucement about a lost adult. I would have killed him. 

For Lego, I bought the cute Lotso Hugging Bear, Lucy got this great Tree/Flower set and Chris got the car from Back to the Future, the Delorean. 

Rizzo helping me sort laundry. 

Reminder Chris being excited about the pottery he painted? Well, I finally picked it up and he was even more excited. The worker remembered Chris when she picked up the little smore and goes: "Oh yeah, I remember you guys, he was REALLY proud of this" hahahahahaha

We ended our weekend with a little CYO volleyball. The team played...hot and cold. Lucy did well but sometimes its really hard to motivate an 8th grade team through it. We have a few players, like Lucy who want to play, keep their energy up, chase after the ball, lots of saves, play scrappy if needed, yes make mistakes, but WANT to do better and try hard... theeeeennnn we have a group of 8th graders that could not be motivated by anything and their attitude is poopy. Their feet might actually be glued to the floor. Lucy is still having fun and learning. I'm going to try to make these last few weeks of CYO volleyball fun and hope we end on a high note!

First Day of School, Volleyball, & Fantasy Football

Lucy finally started school! 8th grade! Top of the school and she is excited. She isn't excited for homework of course, but I can tell she is happy to be back around her friends. 

We also had another volleyball game and Lucy got to play all around since we were down a few teammates. She did GREAT. She made some serves over and she handled the front row well. We won! There are more photos below that Chris took since I was coaching again. 

We had to get Fiesta to celebrate afterwards. :) 

Saturday was our draft party. One couple had to drop out last minute, but the core group was ready to go. Jenn set the theme as wrong party. Chris and I dressed for a Highschool Muscial watch party. Jenn and Jim were for a Hawaii Luau, Frank and Bryan swimming pool and Jackie & Jeremy Taco Tuesday. I don't know what was funnier, when everyone would walk in or the fact, everyone kept dressed up the entire night. 

We started off the party with a WWE Royal Rumble to pick the draft order. Basically, we all chose a wrestler and then we do a computer generated royal rumble and based on when you are throw out of the ring is your draft order. It ended up being a lot of fun to watch. 

We were locked in for the draft!

Sunday, we ended up stopping by the St Jude Festival to support it. We played Bingo, bought some raffle tickets and tried to win a cake. For the first time, in ever, we actually didn't win a cake! Lucy did win Bingo though!

Like probably many others, we tried to watch the Husker/Missouri volleyball game at Wrigley, but the slippery court cancelled the game. Honestly, it was still fun to watch the players all dance and have fun. They may not have played a full match, but we still loved it. 

More photos from Lucy playing...

More draft photos...

And Look! A couple of Heidi photos too!