Preston's Back to Prov

Sadly, summer is officially over, and both kids are back in school!  Preston was not so happy to start the new wake-up routine super early this morning, but Dave put on some special music to make it oh so much better. ;)  10th Grade here he comes!!  Praying he can somehow manage the stress of 3 AP classes, working at Harris Teeter, completing flight hours, volunteering at church, running track and playing soccer for school, and also club travel soccer.  It's going to be a FULL year!

FDOC for Savannah at UNC

 

This beauty started her second year at UNC today!  Technically, she's a senior by hours, but we are still saying it's her sophomore year. ;)  She was excited to go to the study center for dinner and took a quick picture with some old and new friends.  Praying for an amazing year . . and that those darn curtains stay on the wall! LOL

Divide and Conquer!

This weekend was a bit crazy!  I had already planned to go back to UNC to help Savannah finish setting up her room and take a few things that wouldn't fit in the cars last time . .  and then we found out that Preston had two school games in Asheville at the same time.  SOOOO, we split up and Dave took Preston to Asheville Friday afternoon, and I went to UNC Saturday morning.

Preston was thrilled to play in the Friday night lights, and they even announced the starting lineup over the loudspeaker, which was also super exciting.  His team won both games, Friday and Saturday, so that was just an added bonus!

Meanwhile, Savannah and I worked as hard as we could on her room.  We were ready to throw the curtains out the window because the huge rod kept falling off the wall, but we did the best we could (using a LOT of super glue), and I left pretty late with things still unfinished.  We did, however, make time for a quick YoPo run for frozen yogurt.  YUM!

 All in all, it was a super fun weekend with many things accomplished and lots of fun memories made!

Happy 47 to Me!

Today was a great day!!  I had a few good orders in the morning, took Preston to the dermatologist to put his mind at ease, met Savannah for dinner to enjoy a family meal together, and then was surprised with balloons and a super yummy treat from Preston.  My heart is full!

Savannah was pretty insistent that we meet up for dinner halfway.  So despite my worrying about her highway driving solo, we agreed as long as the weather permitted.  It's literally rained for DAYS, but the Lord provided a beautiful afternoon for our drive to Greensboro, and it did us all so much good!  So thankful for this family and for the blessing of another year with them!

PHS Soccer!!!

Things have been so insane for Preston lately . . between flight hours, working, soccer tryouts/workouts, and just normal summer stuff with friends, this kid has been nonstop.  He has worked so hard and found out Friday that he made the high school soccer team.  I'm not sure why, but I think I was even more excited than he was!  

The team decided that they wanted to wear white shorts for the first game today, and Preston didn't exactly have any so we had to improvise with taking the old club shorts and manually removing the number.  It actually worked!  Preston may have said "all my years of picking are finally paying off" LOL

The first game was today, and they did awesome!  5-0 win against Latin.  Preston really likes his team; they truly seem to be a great group of talented kids with good attitudes.  

It's going to be a super fun, busy Fall!!!!  

It poured down rain during warm-ups!  But the team came out strong!

 A little pre-game huddle by the starters, including Preston starting at center back. 

Preston's First Real Job!

Today is Preston's first day on the job at Harris Teeter!  He is way more excited than I thought he would be . . . so here's hoping he actually enjoys it!

UNC Move In Year 2 Chaos

Well, somehow summer is over, and it's time to move Savannah into UNC again. I'm not sure how that happened so fast, but nonetheless, here we are!  This year the feelings are all different since she knows what to expect and is SUPER excited about being an RA in the same dorm, but it's still an emotional time for us all.

Savannah warned us that the elevator usually breaks for RA move-in, but I was like no way... and guess what???  The elevator broke while we were trying to move her in.  I wish I could adequately capture the chaos of move-in this year, but there just simply aren't words LOL  

Being that she has her own room, she brought LOTS more stuff, and heavier stuff too.  Fridge, microwave, huge storage shelves, etc all was piled on the elevator only for it to break, with Preston on it!  He tried to call campus police to get him out, but the number was not working, so we prayed and did a lot of running up and down to different floors to try to get the stupid elevator to just move!  Finally, it did get to her floor, but the doors wouldn't open.  It was just insane.  He lived to make it to dinner, and we somehow got everything in her room (although only a fraction of the room was really set up before we took a dinner break and then had to travel back to Charlotte)

I'm so mad that I didn't get a picture of him sitting on the elevator filled with Savannah's stuff, but he spent his time sending video updates to his friends and this is the start of one of them. :)

Here is my girl, all excited about her single room and the start of a new year!

We had dinner at Buns before leaving her with hugs and good luck for organizing.

She will eventually get all settled, I think.  I plan to head back in a couple of weeks to take things that wouldn't fit into two SUVs . . . so it will all be okay.  But one thing is for sure, none of us will soon forget the insanity of the year two move-in (even though she was literally the only person moving in the entire building!)