Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Samantha agreed to do swim team even though she’s not around for much of the summer. She made the most of the first few weeks though! She made it to the mock meet, a home meet and the meet this week at VSA. She killed it at all three coming home with some 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place ribbons!!
Home meet versus Jasper where MBC Magic ended up winning by 2 points!
Away meet at VSA…
In between the meets she even earned Swimmer of the Week!!
Super proud of my swimmer!
Soccer wrapped up with May Madness where the girls ended up in second place! Woohoo! In the final game, black played white so that was fun for all of Pool B to be on the field together.
Post tourney pool party!
The girls also had soccer tryouts for next year…
Samantha, Jane and Lila all ended up on the 3rd team – N1 – with Coach Ike. I think that is exactly where she should be so we’re excited about another fun year of soccer! GOOOAAALLLL!
Wrapping up spring tennis and what a fun season it was! Samantha went up for Barry’s clinics once a week and had fun playing with her besties. I played 5.0 soft court and 3.5 USTA. Our USTA team was undefeated and won our division! Headed to state in June!!
Mother daughter queens in the same week!
We ended the season with the spring Member Guest Tournament. Caron and I played together and while we didn’t technically win, I’m gonna crown us champs! There were two team significantly better than everyone else that battled it out for the real crown, but Caron and I came in right behind them so I’m going to say we won the “non-pro” division! ha!
Most importantly, we looked cute in our matching fits!
Love love!!
Samantha had her dance recital last week on Thursday night and I’m trying not to be sad that that is very likely her last recital ever! Dance is coming to an end and I sure am going to miss getting to see her smile on stage every year! She went out with a bang though…a neon green bang!
I was very proud of my bun again…her thick hair is a lot to manage but I think it was our best one yet!
Samantha also wanted some dramatic eye makeup and I think I did pretty good on that too!
My pretty, pretty girl!
Her class was not performing until the 3rd to last act of the second half of the show so we decided we had plenty of time to go to dinner before hand! What fun!
We arrived to the theater fashionably late yet right on time!
The girls nailed their performance! I sure do love watching my little star shine on that stage!!
Another great showcase! So proud of this group of girls and especially proud of my favorite girl!
Of course she deserved a little treat after that stellar performance….
Love my star!!
This past weekend Samantha got asked to play up with a team a year older for a tournament in Nashville. Thankfully two of her buddies got asked to play as well so that made it a no-brainer! She got home from Alpine at 1:00 and we were on the road by 4:00 for Nashville. No rest for the weary! She was tired but we made it and were ready for the 9am game Saturday!
Samantha played AWESOME and scored three goals in the two games on Saturday! Woohoo! Of course, the most fun of soccer tournaments is the shopping in between games. ha! We headed to Cool Springs mall between games 1 and 2 for lunch…at the Cheesecake Factory (!)…and some squishy shopping.
We stayed in Brentwood and all of the games were in Franklin but after game 2, we headed into Nashville for some really good shopping at Green Hills Mall and dinner at Green Hills Grille! Can’t beat that! We had another morning game on Sunday and it was quite the match up…
No, that is not an optical illusion! She was tough…
But Samantha was tough too and dribbled around her many times! I was so proud of her! The girls ended up tying one game, winning one game, and losing one game. Samantha was a bit of a sore loser after game 3. “Can I take your picture?” Samantha – “no”. Jane – “You can take my picture!” haha!
Don’t worry, she came around!
Really proud of these girls. We then headed back home…but not without stopping to try Swig first!
Love adventures with my best girl!