Last Week of Summer & Chicago Cup!

Weekdays:

• Monday - I woke Connor with news of his 3rd grade teacher - Ms Hembre!!!!  Wahoooo!!!!!  That is who Maci had, we love her and he has some good buddies in his class.  Maci got picked up from her slumber party by our nanny around 9a.  Then they were off to a fun day at Mall of America for a day of Nickelodeon Universe and riding rides.  Crazy heat caused Connor’s flag football to be cancelled yet again in the evening.

Sleeping Beauties

Breakfast Time

Crazy Sky

 

• Tuesday - Clint had a golf scramble in the morning with Brad, Shane and Brandon.  They came in 4th so just missed out on prizes but had a great time together.  Clint then ran Rosie to and from a grooming appointment in the afternoon.  I wrapped my busy day with a trip to St Paul for the ice cream social at equality (non profit I am on the board for).  It was great to see how well the community turned out for the event.  I had to roll around 8p to pick up Maci from her soccer practice.  She had another great night with her new team.

New TFE Team Gear Arrived!!

Thank you Grandma/Grandpa Gilroy for gifting us the bag!!

• Wednesday - Kids and Grace hit up the Como Zoo.  I had another busy day at the office followed by an early departure for Connor’s elementary open house.  Maci was so excited to also go and say hi to her former teachers.  We wrapped and Clint/Connor were off to Flag Football practice.  While they headed that way, Maci and I got ready for soccer, picked up a to go dinner and headed to her practice field.  Their team scrimmaged the boys for the final 20 mins and dang are boys tough HA.  We lost 0-3 but 2 of the goals were SUPER lucky!

She Loves Flamingos!

• Thursday - Grace’s last day with us!  I worked from home to celebrate the day with the kids.  Maci did an Infiniti class at 1p.  Then Grace left us around 330p after some cute little gift exchanges with Grace and the kids and vice versa.  Then Maci Connor and I were off to Urban Eve hair salon before the storms started for Maci’s back to school 4p haircut.  Clint and I stayed up until midnight watching football and getting work/to dos/laundry done before heading to Chicago the next day.

School Pictures are In!

 

 

 

 

We sweat hard when working hard

Hair Cut Fun

Before AND After

Friday:

• Up and at ‘em around 8a and packed/on the road by 10a.
• I got so much work done the first 3 hours of the trip WAHOO!
• We stopped at the WI Dells for lunch at Buffalo Phil’s and I charged my iPad.
• I then continued work and then some rest on the remaining of the trip while Connor played games and Maci watched her phone.
• We rolled into Chicago around 530p.
• We doordashed some Chipotle and then had a team meeting at 7p.
• The girls had so much fun hanging out together.

Saturday:

• Day 1 of games!  The players took a walk with their coach to talk about the weekend and have some time together at 9a
• Then we were off to the field for our 11a game vs a Central IL team.  Dang did we come out looking great!  It was so back and forth with our team going up 1-0, then starting 2nd half by getting scored on 2x back to back, then we hit the tying goal and tacking on another so up 3-2 but then they tied it up and with just a minute or two left, they hit a 4th to Win the game.  Urgh, we played well but bugger that we let them steal the game as we were clearly the stronger team.
• Oh well - off to BW3 for college football, beer and food OH plus AC b/c it was hot!
• We then went back to the hotel for some quick cool down time.  I zonked for about 15 mins while the kids watched a movie.
• We were then off to game 2 which was a HOT and Rough one!  We all looked so slow!!!!  We wont talk much more about this game as we lost 0-5 to a really strong IL team.
• We came home for showers and cooling off before ordering pizza as a team.  After pizza, the girls did a team scavenger hunt and broke into 3 teams - it was a great way to have them get to know each other better and co-mingle.  Maci’s team won and they got some fun candy, nail polish etc.  Super cute!
• The girls wrapped the night with some “Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza” card game.

Sunday:

• I woke up at 6a and couldn’t sleep any longer so I headed down to the breakfast area, enjoyed some coffee and playing on my phone while the rest of the fam still zonked.
• They all got up at 7a to get ready for our day, checking out of the hotel and heading to game 3.
• We were out the hotel door around 830a to get to fields and be ready for our 950a game.
• The girls came out ready to play again - for sure not game 2 issues.  We were dominating the entire half but couldn’t find the back of the net.
• 2nd half we got an unlucky hand ball in the box and they hit their PK.
• We kept pushing and got a great free kick/hand ball of our own but outside the box.  Annie put a beauty of a goal into the back of the net 1-1.  We kept pushing and firing but couldn’t get one in the back of the net and ended with a 1-1 tie.
• Lots of momentum to build upon!!!  We took some team pics, drew an eye black mustache on their coach, bought a tshirt and were in the car to hit the road/grab some food.
• I had agreed to set up a team instagram account and while doing so realized I should probably build one for Maci too as a lot of her teammates have them for housing highlights.  If you want to follow either - team is “TFE_girls_soccer_2013” and Maci’s own account is “Macimagoo_2013”
• We should get home around 630p and are excited to have a good night sleep in our own beds and getting a few more things done tomorrow before the early alarms go off for the first day of school on Tuesday.

Love our gal #20

We hope you are enjoying this long weekend and the unofficial end of summer!

Lots of Love, 

C, K, M & C