White House Soccer Tournament

Yep - another soccer tournament.  Can you tell what we do about every other weekend in the Fall?  This was our own club's soccer tournament.  It always falls the first weekend of Fall Break.  I was able to make the Saturday games but we missed the Sunday game because of church....and they won!!!  So not many pictures but a few for your viewing pleasure!

Tournament Champions

Thankfully I have friends who will take pictures and send them to me when I'm not there!

Disney on Ice

A friend of mine's granddaughter is with a Girl Scout troop and they had discounted tickets to Disney on Ice and wanted to see if we wanted any.  Matthew & I talked about it and we never were able to do anything like that with the older two so we decided that she & I would go with Anne & Keelee.  

We had such a fun time and amazing seats and loved every minute of it.  We got tons of video, which I'm not going to upload but I thought I'd share a few pictures from our evening.

Ms. Anne got Julianana & Keelee a toy!

Snow White & her Prince

Jasmine & Aladdin

Mickey & Minnie Mouse

Julianna & Keelee

Self portraits

That's the backdrop - a big castle they would come out of

It's dark but we got to get right up on the ice and get our picture taken!

Brentwood Soccer Tournament

Nothing too exciting in this blog other than we came in 2nd place in the Brentwood tournament.  Although I would say we went into not thinking we'd fair too well and ended up loosing a very close game in the championship!  So proud of these boys.

Christian receiving his medal

Couldn't help but take a picture of this side line.  Really??   Was it happy hour when someone painted this?

Siblings entertaining themselves!

Women's Half Marathon

In July, my personal trainer (and very close friend) informed me that as part of my continued training that I was going to be running in the Women's Half Marathon in September and that I had no choice.  Well, what can I say to that?  My other sweet friend, Doreen, joined in and the 3 of us were even able to train together.  Rachel ran with us, walked with us, pushed us along and I hate to even admit this, but that woman carried my water bottle for me - not only during 2 1/2 months of training but over the 13.1 mile half marathon!  What a friend!!

This was a huge personal accomplishment!  Personally, I hate running - I always have.  I used to use my "over-exertional asthma card" in PE as soon as they said we were running!  I was hoping that through this experience, I would learn to love running and it be an enjoyable way to exercise anywhere at anytime.  Well, let me just say that didn't happen and I still hate running, however, I have a really cool medal to show my accomplishment, and memories of this accomplishment that can never be taken away from me and especially the bond with these sweet friends of mine that only grew stronger as we ran (and I whined) together!!!

Pinning my bib on....

Lined up in the corral - Doreen found us matching shirts and bought them for us!

Cassie got us as we're running near the end

See that smile?  I am literally in sight of the finish line!

We did it - and we got the medals to prove it!

Love this shot - here, Rachel is checking out her app that gave us a mile by mile breakdown on our times and we could not believe how fast we went on an average - we were very proud of ourselves!

So there I am - my time was 2:49:28.  Considering we were hoping to be around 3 hours, I am pleased with my time.

My awesome sister, Cassie & my Mom came to see me.  They were able to see us somewhere around the 10th mile and then make it to the finish line.  It meant the world to me to have additional cheerleaders!!

Here are the Payne Girls (Missing Rachel of course) and adding a couple of Warrens in!

My wonderful support system!

That night, Rachel hosted our families to her house to a most marvelous meal.  I am so blessed to have these 2 friends in my life.

At church on Sunday, we wore our race shirts!  I wanted to wear the medal but they said it might be a bit too much.  I don't know why!!!

I took this picture for my mother in law, but wanted to share here, too.  I have a Pandora bracelet and at the Expo, they were selling charms and I HAD to get this.  I am so proud of it - you can see it fits right between my children and my soccer ball charm!!!

County Champions!!!

So last year, our county hosted their first ever Junior Varsity team tournament.  Last year, we made it to the finals and came in 2nd place, so this year, we really wanted to win it all this year.....

We DID!!!  We played great and had a spectacular tournament and walked away as the County Championships.  We are so proud of our girls and just have the greatest coach!

Rebecca was one of the team captains

Stacey & I make a great team as score keepers!

Rebecca ready!

They won it!

Here's our small but mighty JV team!

Both the JV and Varsity teams together!

Gotta have that funny picture!

The following week, our varsity team won their Varsity Tournament, too!!  Whoo-hoo!

Julianna became great friends with Kirsten, one of the managers!

My beautiful Rebecca

Franklin Soccer Tournament

One of our soccer tournaments was down in Franklin.  We didn't fair well in the tournament itself, but we all stayed at Nonie & Pops (my parents) and had a great time there.  My favorite pictures are at the end of the blog!!

This sweet sister has grown up on the sideline of the soccer field!

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Look at that smile - that means he's finally taller than Nonie!!!

And look how close Rebecca is!

Rebecca got creative at the game - making words out of pretzels - I'm actually quite impressed

There were quite a few bumble bees all around where we were sitting!

Look closely at Rebecca's glasses - a bee landed on it.  I can't believe she didn't freak out!

As we were leaving the complex, we saw these!  Very cool