Mondells in Minneapolis: Taylor Swift & Soccer Tournament Fun!

Weekdays:

Monday - No evening plans! That meant I got to enjoy reading a book on the swing under our deck, lovely evening!
Tuesday - The kids went to Mall of America to ride rides with the nanny. My team had a quick happy hour at the Flying Dutchman. Maci had soccer practice and I ran to pick her up on my way home from the happy hour.

MOA Fun w. Steph

Wednesday - Maci had a soccer game at night. They played great and won 4-1 with the 1 goal by the other team being an absolute fluke HA. While we were at Maci's game, Clint and Connor were at Connor's baseball practice.
Thursday - We started the day with Maci getting round 1 of braces removed, she was so flipping excited!! We got home just in time for her to get ready for gymnastics with Nanny Steph. At work, I had a super fun 1:1 with Katie on my team, we checked out bikes and road around a pond during our 1:1. It was super hot though so I came back in a total sweaty mess!!! Thankfully we had no plans that night so I was able to enjoy more book reading on the deck swing.

Before & After Braces - She is so Happy!

Bike Fun w. Katie

Friday :

I got some work done at home and before I knew it, it was 3p and time to head to Jacey's for the Taylor Swift concert.
We met up with Jacey, Natalie and Stella and then we were off with Ryan as our driver down to downtown.
We had dinner at the Melting Pot, the girls mainly enjoyed the Chocolate part at the end and Jacey and I enjoyed the cocktail most.
Then we were off to the stadium and got there in time for the opening acts to be wrapping up.
Maci and I got comfy and then at 8p Taylor took the stage for the most amazing 3.5 hours of entertainment!!! Maci was singing along to so many songs, never stopped smiling and kept telling me how great this is!!! She clapped nonstop!!! It was so much fun!
We got home around 1a which was going to be rough given we had an early soccer game the next day but worth it!

Taylor Prep!!

Met up with the Cassem crew

Melting Pot Dinner Fun

So Close!

At our seats!!

Found Annelise from Soccer!

The End!

Saturday :

Alarms went off at 730a, ouch that was early and poor Maci said "mom, I didnt even sleep yet!" Ugh I know sweetie! But after a minute she was up and at 'em ready to roll to the field.
We got there on time and the girls had a great 1st game of the tourney with a 2-0 W
We headed home and all crashed for some naps
Clint was up and off to a massage at 215p
Around 430p we were back off to the fields but the weather started to roll in and shortly after being at the fields the game was called due to lightening.
Bugger, no game 2 but we decided to go to Annelise's house as she has a sports court and tree house at her home so we could all hang out, adults could have some drinks and all could enjoy pizza.

Played against my dear friend & former co-worker Nikki's Daughter (Drew)

They were also exhausted from Taylor the night before!!!

Sunday :

Clint and I started the morning with a long walk with the dogs
We got some work done around the house to start the day before sports took over
Game 3 of the tournament was at 1p and thankfully the rain held off
The girls played so fierce agains the top Prior Lake team and they tied a super tough 0-0
Maci had this one break away to the goal with 2 defenders on her and she had a look in her eye of NO GIVE UP - she fired and it was gorgeous but hit the gosh darn crossbar - DRAT!
However, once home I checked my email to see a super great note - Maci was nominated and selected as the U9/U10 girls player of the month for all of Fusion!!! Go Maci - watch my Facebook as I will forward their post once it is out there - we are so damn proud of that girl!!!
Shortly after getting stuff done around the house we were off to Connor's baseball game. He had some awesome hits today, such a little baller.
Once home, kids played outside, Clint mowed the lawn and I ran up to the high school to get Maci's shirt for soccer camp this coming week. The coaches were congratulating Maci for being player of the month and saying how deserving she is, I sure do agree!!

It lightly rained at one point and Clint borrowed this umbrella

Thank you Kari for snapping the pic!