Mondells in Minneapolis: Final Session in DC + Road Trip for Soccer + Baseball Tournament!

Weekdays:

Monday - I worked from home to try and get life in order. At night, Connor had a baseball game vs Edina. Maci and I joined for a bit, hauled to her middle school for her spring choir concert and then hauled back to Greenwood to watch Connor crush Edina with some awesome pitching.
Tuesday - I had a busy morning at the office and then headed to the airport. I had to fly to DC for my final session of my executive leadership program, ready to be done! While I was gone, Clint had to pick Maci up from track, run Connor to Brower baseball training, get Maci to and from Soccer practice and manage Connor at his spring basketball practice.
Wednesday - Connor has been doing a GoPro tech project after school this week. Clint also had to get to Connor's baseball game vs Delano - crushed them! While they were doing that, Maci had her district track meet - sad none of us could be there but she got 4th in her 100 out of 89, 4th in the long jump about of like 50 and their 4x100 got 1st in a photo finish!!! Cael, our neighbor, then ran her from track to her soccer practice. While they did this, I got a pedicure in DC with 2 other dear colleagues.

Nice Work M!!

Thursday - I got to leave the program a little early at 330p. I flew home and got to the house around 10p. While in air, Maci had soccer practice and Connor did his spring basketball practice.

Friday:

So good to be home, even if briefly!
I worked from the deck as we got the living room and hallway carpets cleaned.
Before I knew it, Clint was taking Rosie to the groomer and I was off to get Maci at school for her 12p pick up.
We grabbed some quick lunch and then picked up Sam and Savannah to ride with us for our final weekend soccer trip.
We made it to Des Moines in a good 3.5 hours. It was nice to have another adult in the car.
We ate some food at the hotel and watched Connor's team lose in a tough one of game 1 of their tourney.

Cheering on Connor

Saturday:

We were up and at 'em watching Game 2 of Connor's - a good win!
Then we were off to our own game vs VSA. We needed to either W 1 or Tie 2 on the weekend to clinch 1st place and move on to Nationals.
The game was HOT but the girls worked hard - Maci played some killer defense! We won 2-0 and clinched - the girls were dying!!!
We grabbed some quick late lunch and hit the road for Omaha - 2 hours later we were there.
Connor thankfully won game 3 and so they play on into Sunday.
We got some quick dinner of pizza and salads before crashing for the night.

More Cheering on Connor

Let's Go Girls!

Lenix, on the 2012s, her mom takes great pics!

I love this progression

Maci hunts players down and DOES NOT QUIT!

Victory!!! #1

Dinner with Friends

Connor had his own fun at Graham's with his baseball buddies

Sunday:

Connor's team got behind by alot in their morning game while we walked to Starbucks.
However, they ended up pulling out a tough Win in extra innings against the team they had lost to on Friday!
Then it was time for our game. We won 6-3 and were right back in the car for the 5.5 hour drive home. While heading home, we heard about Connor's loss in the semi which had them play for 3rd but they did it!!! They got 3rd place and I love that one of the boys asked if the rings were Rose Gold vs Bronze HAHA
That also got them their bid for the state tournament - good job boys. Everyone was happy to wrap the crazy weekend. We pulled into the garage around 10p exhausted and smiling.

All smiles with a donut and a crazy W in game 1 of Sunday!