Today we celebrated this amazing guy's 52nd birthday! He always so selflessly gives of himself to help things run smoothly around here, often on just a fraction of the sleep he needs. So today we were excited to celebrate him!! We plan to go out to eat when Savannah is home this weekend, but we were able to surprise him with balloons, a few little gifts, and a Bruster's ice-cream cake! YUMMY! Here's to another fun year together with much laughter (often at ourselves) and super sweet memories!
We have had such a fun weekend! Savannah came home on Friday, after her interview at the campus bookstore, and was able to stay home through tomorrow morning as her first class is later on Tuesday. We have run a million errands, done lots of shopping, eaten out at Red Robin AND Texas Roadhouse, emjoyed a local festival, and watched a good amount of TV too. Preston's insane schedule with work, flight, and soccer meant only two dinners as a family, but we made the most of them! He came straight from soccer practice to dinner tonight and quickly ordered three baskets of bread for himself as soon as he sat down. :) Oh, how I love having everyone home together!!! The extra day off today has been a blessing, as both kids had work to catch up on before we jump back into our regular schedules.
This beauty started her second year at UNC today! Technically, she's a senior by hours, but we are still saying it's her sophomore year. ;) She was excited to go to the study center for dinner and took a quick picture with some old and new friends. Praying for an amazing year . . and that those darn curtains stay on the wall! LOL
This weekend was a bit crazy! I had already planned to go back to UNC to help Savannah finish setting up her room and take a few things that wouldn't fit in the cars last time . . and then we found out that Preston had two school games in Asheville at the same time. SOOOO, we split up and Dave took Preston to Asheville Friday afternoon, and I went to UNC Saturday morning.
Preston was thrilled to play in the Friday night lights, and they even announced the starting lineup over the loudspeaker, which was also super exciting. His team won both games, Friday and Saturday, so that was just an added bonus!
Meanwhile, Savannah and I worked as hard as we could on her room. We were ready to throw the curtains out the window because the huge rod kept falling off the wall, but we did the best we could (using a LOT of super glue), and I left pretty late with things still unfinished. We did, however, make time for a quick YoPo run for frozen yogurt. YUM!
Things have been so insane for Preston lately . . between flight hours, working, soccer tryouts/workouts, and just normal summer stuff with friends, this kid has been nonstop. He has worked so hard and found out Friday that he made the high school soccer team. I'm not sure why, but I think I was even more excited than he was!
The team decided that they wanted to wear white shorts for the first game today, and Preston didn't exactly have any so we had to improvise with taking the old club shorts and manually removing the number. It actually worked! Preston may have said "all my years of picking are finally paying off" LOL
The first game was today, and they did awesome! 5-0 win against Latin. Preston really likes his team; they truly seem to be a great group of talented kids with good attitudes.
It's going to be a super fun, busy Fall!!!!
It poured down rain during warm-ups! But the team came out strong!
