UNC Girl Fun

Savannah has been busy lately with the Intervarsity semiformal and a joint birthday party for her friends, Reagan and Bailey.  I love that they find ways to get dressed up and have fun together!

 

Marvin Invitational ~ Running with the Seniors

 

This week Preston was invited to run in an invitational track meet with the "varsity" track team at Marvin Ridge.  We are still track newbies and really aren't sure how all of the meets and teams work, but we do know that not everyone gets to run in the invitational meets and that the senior guys invited Preston to be on their 4x100 relay team.  So that meant he couldn't run on Thursday in the regular school meet.  Anyway, it was a bit chaotic with the details, but he did fantastic today!  He was so excited and a bit anxious to run with the big boys, but it went well!

This and That . . . . on Break

Isn't this where YOU would hang a soccer jacket to dry?!

Life has been so crazy lately.  I feel like I am literally running a taxi service between school and soccer and that I am literally living in my car, but I'm trying to stay positive and enjoy time with the kids en route.  Savannah came home for Spring break Thursday and lucky for her it was also the week of her two favorite consignment sales!  We both have done a little work, a lot of mystery shops (including dinner at Texas Roadhouse), and of course, spent time on the soccer field.  Savannah was also able to spend three days at the lake with Mrs. Poats and her church friends so she is living the grand life these last few days of break.  Thankfully the weather has been pretty amazing and we have enjoyed the warmer temperatures for sure.  

 It was also jammie night at Bruster's so that was a huge treat for us all!

Soccer Tourney & UNC!

This weekend Preston had a soccer tournament in the Greensboro/Burlington area.  It was quite the mess with several day/time/field changes (due to crazy rain and bad weather) and we ended up missing a game morning update and our team showed up at the wrong field!  By game time coach asked why our field had players on it and it was then we found out we were at the wrong soccer COMPLEX!  The game we were playing was 20 minutes away.  OOPS! Thankfully they waited for our team to arrive to start the game and the boys pulled out a win!  We then raced to UNC to pick up Savannah so she could watch the second game and enjoy dinner out too.

I headed back to Charlotte and the boys drove Savannah back to school and stayed overnight in the hotel for the Sunday game.  It was quite the crazy weekend but oh so good to have all my people in one place!
 

Long Weekends Rock

 

Savannah does not have Friday classes this semester and since Monday was another wonderful mental health day at UNC, classes were canceled . . . so she came home Thursday and didn't have to go back until Monday afternoon. :)  We ran a zillion errands and enjoyed a lot of downtime at home, nothing fancy, but it was just fabulous to all be together.  One of the exciting things she wanted to do was try out this new store Reclectic.  The grand opening was on Friday at noon.  We showed up at around 11:45 to find no less than 1000 people in line waiting to get in!!!  It was INSANE!!!  She smartly said "no way, I'm hungry" so we headed home instead of waiting in the insane line that probably would have taken 2+ hours to just get into the store!  But on Sunday once it had calmed down (and had been completely picked over) we walked right in.  It was a bit of a bust, but probably because everyone had already bought the good stuff. LOL  We will definitely have to try it again soon.  Never the less, we all had a super fun low-key weekend.

Eagles are Back on the Field

 

Preston's club soccer team started their season with a local tournament this weekend.  It's a relatively new team (with a new coach) and attendance at practice has been rough for most of the team since we had to practice so far away . . but they played hard and really worked well together!  They did win one of their games so hopefully they can work on finishing at practice to get more points on the board!

Last Winter Track Meet

Winter track is a super short season . . and being injured for the first part of the season really shortens it even more!  Nevertheless, Preston was excited to be able to compete at the meet today. It was at the local high school that is brand new so their facilities are quite nice.  He ran well, but there was a small collision with the relay team in the lane next to him (they were DQed for being in his lane) but they still did great.  I was reminded how much I dislike meets that are SOOO long, but thankfully we were able to leave before 5pm because his events were earlier.  Now he just has to focus on healing and being ready for spring outdoor track and soccer which is approaching game time fast.