Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
First – Maxwell update! We saw Dr. Emblom at Andrews yesterday and got an encouraging report. He think recovery will be closer to 6 weeks and told him to ditch the crutches. Needless to say, Maxwell was thrilled. Onward and upward!
Second, girls just wanna have fun!
Ready for the weekend!
Last Friday was the kickoff to football season with Spartan Day where offense and defense scrimmage each other. My players looking ready to go for school!
I didn’t see Maxwell again until that night but Spencer came home and got ready…
They then take a huge group photo and it was fun to try and spot 36 and 19!
Then 8th scrimmaged each other and Spencer got lots of good reps in…
Then JV scrimmaged and Maxwell started and got two plays in….
Unfortunately after those two plays we never saw him back on the field. We finally spotted him with the trainer…not good. I was supposed to leave to drive to Atlanta for the soccer tournament so we really didn’t know what to do. I decided to walk to the other side of the stands to see if I could get his attention. As I walked over there the trainer intercepted me and took me to Maxwell (a move I was later scolded for!!) where I learned he heard a pop while running and then had extreme pain in his hip flexor. Not good. Maxwell assured me he was fine for now and I left to drive 2.5 hours to Atlanta with Samantha and Jane in tow. By the time I got to Atlanta at 11pm, I was a wreck but the boys were doing a bit better at Tecate. Robert took Maxwell to OS1 on Saturday and we did not get the news we wanted. He has an avulsion fracture on his hip. Rest, minimal weight bearing, PT, no football. We got him back in for an MRI on Monday and the results confirmed what the Xray showed – minimally displaced apophyseal avulsion fracture of the left anterosuperior iliac spine. He did head to school with his crutches on Wednesday, much to his dismay. The focus now is rest and healing! This is obviously not how any of us wanted his sophomore football season to start but he will get through this and come out even stronger, I am sure.
Samantha wasn’t around for much of this summer but she still made it to three swim meets! I was really proud of her for still committing to the team, showing up for practices, and making it to as many meets as possible.
She was thankful to have a buddy doing swim team with her!
My fierce competitor!
She even got swimmer of the week! yay!
Proud of my swimmer for putting in the hard work this summer!
Go Samantha and go MBC Magic!
It was a summer of tennis for me! With no big trips taken, that just meant plenty of time to play cardio every day. Nothing better!! But, my knee wasn’t liking that at first and was pretty inflamed and even had some shoulder pain for a few weeks. I did lots of PT with dry needling and cupping…
and then finally went back to Andrews. I was afraid they were going to tell me my meniscus was torn again but, nope! Just arthritis! They pulled a ton of fluid out of my knee and gave me a steroid injection and I was good as new. Thank goodness! Lots of cardio crowns this summer…
Also had some birthday crowns!
Of course my tennis princess was out there sometimes too!
Love love!
New school year, new soccer team! Samantha is now on Pre-ECNL Team 3 and fall soccer is off with a bang! We drove to Atlanta very late Friday night and didn’t get there until about 11pm but we were up and at the fields for the 8am game!
These girls played awesome and won! Hooray!
We then grabbed breakfast and then did a little shopping – Samantha’s favorite part of soccer tournaments! ha!
Our second game was at 12:30 and it was approximately 153 degrees outside! SOOOOO hot. The girls played so hard but we ended up losing 1-2 with a last second goal scored by the other team. Bummer. We then hit up the hotel pool and went out for mexican so all was not lost!
We were back at the field bright and early for an 8am rematch against the same team and unfortunately couldn’t pull out the win.
But that did mean we got to head on back to Birmingham which we were very glad for. Starbucks stop required!
Excited to watch this soccer star play!