Soccer & Quiz Bowl

Today was one of those days where Dave and I had to divide and conquer!  We were sort of hoping soccer would be rained out (although they have missed 3 games in a row due to rain) because Savannah had an out of town quiz bowl event today too.  As it turned out, we got an e-mail at the last minute that soccer was on so Dave and Savannah left at 7:40 this morning to head to quiz bowl, leaving me and Preston home for soccer.

It turned out to be a beautiful day, but boy was the field muddy!  There were two huge puddles of mud in the middle, which was comical seeing boys kick and run through.  Although they lost pretty bad, Preston played a great game and wore the team captain band pretty well. :)

Meanwhile, Dave and Savannah were at podunkville with regional quiz bowl competition. Savannah said that her team won two matches, so that is good.  They are still traveling back so I don't have all of the details yet.  I do know it's been a crazy busy Saturday, with an even busier Sunday ahead as I shipt shop, mystery shop, and prepare for a lot of sub days next week.

3rd Grade Musical ~ Land of Liberty

Tonight was the long awaited third grade musical at PSE!

Preston was so excited to be chosen from his class to have one of the speaking parts introducing his class song.

The kids all did a great job celebrating our freedom.

Pitiful Preston

What started as congestion and cold symptoms turned into full-blown crud by Sunday night.  Preston woke me up shortly after midnight and was on fire.  He had a fever of 102.1 and was just miserable.  I gave him Motrin and tried to get him back to sleep, but it was a challenge.  Being that the flu is going around like crazy at school I took him first thing Monday morning to the doctor.  He still had a high fever, but thankfully it responded quickly to Motrin.  She opted not to test for flu as even it was confirmed they would treat it the same, with liquids and Motrin and rest.  So we went home and settled in for a day of rest.  The poor guy felt so bad that he barely moved from the sofa all day.  His nose running and sore throat were the worst symptoms, but the fever was pretty scary.  By dinner, he at least wanted to eat some applesauce so that was an improvement.

Thankfully he woke up this morning feeling much better.  He slept through the night, didn't have a fever all day and was back to his normal inquisitive, bubbly, active self.  He ate a bit less, but still was back to eating and even did some online work that his class was doing at school.  Needless to say, after two days at home we are BOTH ready to be back at school tomorrow.  :)

Savannah's Stacked Sunday

After a low key Saturday (since soccer was rained out) today has been crazy!  After church and Sunday school Savannah headed to lunch with some friends for Anna Kate's birthday.  They had a yummy lunch at Chuy's and then went out for ice-cream too.  She came home, changed and went straight to basketball.  Unfortunately, her team lost in the first round of playoffs, but they still had a super fun season!

We are home to wrap up homework, have dinner, and then head back out for her NAV Bible study.  It's a crazy day to start off a crazy week with Dave travelling out of town most of the week.

Clemson Basketball!!

Dave received tickets to a Clemson basketball game for Christmas and today was finally game day!  It was a beautiful day in SC and even better to see the Tigers pull out a close win over Virginia Tech. :)

Super Bowl Weekend

Preston had a blast at Ben's birthday party

This has been a super busy and fun weekend!  In between mystery shops, Shipt shops, errands, church, Dave's 10-mile race, a birthday party Preston went to, basketball for Savannah, and dinner out last night we have enjoyed having Ashley spend the weekend with us!  Alyssa had a volleyball tournament all weekend so we had the pleasure of having Ashley stay with us.  The kids were in heaven having entertainment all weekend long. :)

We were thankful not to have any big plans for the Superbowl because currently the kids are all snuggled up waiting for the volleyball champ to come back and make the trek back to Greenville, SC.

JMR Jamboree

Today was the first quiz bowl meet of the season.  Savannah's team did a great job!  They won 2 of the 3 matches by a landslide (like triple the other teams' scores) and almost won the middle match but ended up losing by 15 pts.  It was a fun Saturday morning . . . one where I left feeling quite dumb compared to these middle schoolers!