Monument City Classic 2016

I get the opportunity to be the Chaperone for Megan's volleyball team this year (as I was last year).  This year is a whole different story!  The girls all stay in rooms together in the hotel, while their parents stay elsewhere and I stay at the hotel with the girls, being responsible for their meals, making sure they are safe and get sleep and are ready to play volleyball and do their best!  It was a great and crazy weekend - long nights and lots of planning leading up to it, but it was great!  

Megan's team did a great job and played well!  It was a good start to their season!

Dan and I made these bracelets for the girls to have waiting for them in their hotel rooms!  

At 10pm, the girls had to turn in their phones to me and put them on airplane mode until the morning!  There were still 3 more plugged in at different outlets in the room!

Lunch out at Jimmy John's

Cute girls

Feuling up to play later in the day!

Ready to set that ball

Chillin out

All their fun blankets camped out

Team dinner from Noodles and Co

Walking in the snow

Me and Moo

Me and Aaleah

Ready to take on this girl

Down reffing

Ready to serve!

And so it begins! NVPL

Megan's travel season began with the NVPL Seeding Tournament!  

Scoring

Getting ready to play - go #18!!!

Then we met together as a team and made team blankets!

Jack's History Badges

Jack had to make a recipe from the Colonial days.  He chose Shepherd's Pie and did a great job!  It was delicious!  

Looking Good!

Kylie's Birthday Outing

 Kylie decided she wanted to take her good friend to the American Girl Store for tea for her birthday instead of a birthday party!  So, we had Michaela come home with Kylie on the bus, then headed out to have a great night!  (Kylie lost a fight with her scooter the day before, unfortunately, so hence the sores on her face).  We couldn't do tea, because we were there at the wrong time, but we had dinner and it was delicious!  The girls then got to shop for a while and Kylie got Rebecca's ears pierced!

Cheers!  Yum Shirley Temples!

 Sweet girls!

 Kylie and Rebecca

 Michaela and Sage

Best Friends

Yummy dinner!  The girls had fried mac and cheese balls and pretzel bites, I had hummus, pita and veggies.  Then the girls had a mini burger and mini hot dog for dinner and I had a regular burger!

Kylie got a new piggy from Michaela (and surprisingly not one she had already!)!  She named him Lemon :)

 Selfie with the girls

 Posing while shopping

Riding the escalator

And the fun bathrooms with hangars for the American Girl Dolls while you wash your hands!  

New Year's Eve

Our whole family went to a friend's house on New Year's Eve!  Megan hung out with her friends, Kylie played with her friends and Jack mostly hung out with Dan and their dog, but played some with the boys downstairs, too!  It was a fun night to spend with neighbors!

Jack and Tucker

Dan being goofy

Me and my Tweeter

The whole crew waiting for the ball to drop!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1....Happy New Year!!!

And fireworks!

Moments

We bought Dan this shirt for Christmas and he wore it out to see the new Star Wars movie!

Beau has been snuggling wherever he can now that it's winter!  Megan took this sweet picture of him!

Hiding out under another chair

I don't remember where she was going, but she's cute!

On a walk with Daddy

We went out to CAVA as a family!  It was the first time for Jack and Kylie!

Dan took the big kids one afternoon up to the school to shoot hoops and play volleyball!  Megan lost her volleyball on the roof.  Thankfully, Kylie is friends with the Janitor at the school at asked him the next day if he knew how to get it and he came back with it 5 minutes later!  So nice of him!

Our verse for the year in Quest

Dan took the kiddos to Pump It Up!  (and Riley)

They had a blast!