Hello pals and pleased Monday! I hope you had a very nice weekend. Ours was a little bit of a whirlwind however a variety of enjoyable. We kicked issues off on Friday with a neighborhood hangout. It’s a standing set gathering for whoever could make it on the primary Friday of each month. It’s very nice to get an opportunity to meet up with neighbors I may not see as typically, the children like to run round and play, and we lucked out with some very nice climate.
Saturday we have been up and out early. Each women had soccer video games on the similar time (completely different parks). I acquired to go together with Hailey and she or he ended up getting an help by kicking an amazing nook shot! It was HOT however a lot enjoyable to observe her on the market.
As a lot as I don’t love having to divide and conquer with sports activities, I didn’t thoughts the sport instances an excessive amount of as a result of it meant we have been capable of make a fast highway journey to Virginia Tech occur!
My niece is attending VT and so they had an enormous nighttime recreation versus Vanderbilt, the place my nephew goes. David’s dad and mom deliberate on going, too, and provided us 4 seats. We’ve been eager to take the women to a school soccer recreation, so between the soccer recreation instances, the generously provided tickets, and reserving a final minute lodge with bank card factors, we made it occur!
It’s a few 4 hour drive from Greenville, so after the video games we headed north. We went straight to the lodge for some speedy showers, then onto campus. We have been parked and able to discover by 4:00. Not too shabby!
We acquired an amazing strolling tour from Mema and Grandpa earlier than breaking off to fulfill up with a few of our expensive pals from again in Mooresville that occur to be on the recreation, too. We noticed the gamers strolling in, acquired an image with The Hokie Fowl, high-fived the band gamers, and actually acquired to expertise the total tailgating environment on a fantastic afternoon and night.
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Our seats have been about as excessive up as you will be which was truly fairly superior. It made the flyover extra dramatic, gave us loads of room to unfold out, and ended up offering an epic view of the sundown. Rain threatened us on and off all afternoon and night however we by no means acquired rained on as soon as. We lucked out!
I used to be thrilled after we acquired to fulfill up with my niece for a bit. Being the primary recreation day on the yr, I had very low expectations of seeing her, but it surely labored out and I used to be thrilled. She appears to be thriving at VT and says there are such a lot of good folks on the attractive campus. See the folks you like residing their finest lives is just the perfect.
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We ate hotdogs and ice cream, cheered our lungs out, and left late within the 4th quarter when Vandy began their whole domination. All of us slept like logs and I laughed within the morning after we awoke at how nobody’s sheets had appeared to wrinkle a bit; like all of us simply laid down in our spots and didn’t transfer till morning.
We had a very nice breakfast with Mema and Grandpa then headed again south in time for soccer follow and grocery buying.
I loved cheering on the Packers to an amazing win whereas I made dinner, then I let the chickens out to free vary for a bit. I’m nonetheless anxious about predators, however assume it’s so cool how for those who allow them to out an hour earlier than sundown, they’ll naturally return to homebase and put themselves to mattress within the coop because it will get darkish out. Nature is so cool. And I’m nonetheless 90% in denial that I’ll must deal with the rooster scenario in some unspecified time in the future. Sticking my head within the sand is a strong technique, proper?
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And as we speak we hit the bottom operating. I’m giving Finley an extended morning stroll as a result of as we speak she is 4! Then it’s college work with the children, making a reel for a partnership (which I haven’t finished in without end however how does one say no to pimento cheese?!), a bit of power coaching, and if there’s time, choosing the remainder of the peppers and cucumbers for the backyard for a bit of pickling. Lofty objectives for a Monday, however I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks a lot for stopping by as we speak and I hope you’ve a beautiful begin to the brand new week. Let’s make it a superb one!
