Mondells in Minneapolis: Connor’s 2nd Place Basketball Tourney, Maci Haircut & Turkey Bingo!

Weekdays:

Monday - Rosie had a grooming appointment and had the cutest fall leaf bandana afterward. That evening Maci had soccer practice from 700-830p. I was able to get a lot done including my performance reflection that was due later in the week.
Tuesday - I was supposed to go downtown for a professional event but we were really busy with some work items so I skipped that and ended up having a lovely 3 hour block of working time after skipping out. Maci had some Infiniti Performance and Soccer training and while we were there, Connor had basketball practice from 730-900p.
Wednesday - I had a busy work day welcoming Pharmscript to our Optum Rx family. It is one of 2 live integrations I am working on with mergers. Clint drove Maci to her practice for me because it is out by where I work so made sense for me to meet her there. However, we had some stupid weather that made the roads icy. Clint got her there but taking her and coming home took him 1.5 hours. She and I headed home driving 25 miles per hour and got home in about that same amount of time. Ugh I hate ice driving.
Thursday - I worked from home as Maci had a haircut at 5p so easier if I was already at the house. In addition, we had to have the Peloton base of the tread replaced b/c it was making a horrible noise. Maci got her haircut, so cute! Connor had basketball practice from 600-730p with Clint.

Friday:

Good productive work day
A little before 5p we were off to Greenwood Elementary for the annual Turkey Bingo event. We sat with our pals the Floyd’s - Connor’s good buddy Anna’s family.
We weren’t super lucky until the 2nd to last game when Connor won BINGO! He got $10 as the pot was $30 but 3 kids all won with the same call. However, they also let them pick a prize off the prize table. Anna had been eyeing a SpongeBob water bottle all night. Connor picked it and then brought it right over and gave it to his buddy Anna - so sweet!
Once the event wrapped, Maci and I headed home to relax while Connor and Clint were off to Trojan Madness basketball event for the High School basketball team.

Connor got his $$ and Anna got the water bottle

Saturday :

Maci had her final Gymnastics class in the morning.
Then we were off to a long day of basketball for Connor’s team! They whooped Edina in Game 1, did the same to St Louis Park in game 2 and clobbered Eden Praire in game 3.
We were able to have an early dinner with some of the team members in between game 2 and 3.
Afterward, we headed home and rested after a fun but long day at Hopkins middle school.

Sunday:

Thank goodness Bengals were on a bye!
Connor’s team played at 11a based on our seeding and we met up against Edina again. They showed up ready to play but we still topped them!
We then watched some football and hung out as a team at a local bar/restaurant until our championship game at 2p.
We played Rogers top team and we came out sluggish but then started to play really aggressive - Connor was crushing it, if I say so myself! We ended up losing but only by 8. The boys learned a ton and LOVED their 2nd place medals.
The #1 team also was in a championship game across from us at the same time but unfortunately they also lost in the final seconds and got 2nd place.
We got home to our to do list and worked on that up until Maci’s soccer practice at 5p.
While she was at soccer, I turned on the Loons playoff game vs LA Galaxy but we lost 2-5 OUCH! Goodbye MLS for a bit.

Great Group of Boys!

Back Row: Cal, Nathan, Connor, Max, Braden, Channing

Front Kneeling: Sebastian, Kieran, Rocco, Oskar