September Happenings

September was here and gone before we could even blink!  What another fun month!!  Themes include using our membership to Defy frequently - especially with Eli Sease, birthday parties, hanging with Toby, skateboarding in the store, date nights (!!), ATD dance starting, morning cuddles with Daddy, making homemade donut holes, Ashley writing about Papa John for school, riding in a neighbors Mustang (Trevor's dream car), Trevor reading-reading-reading, Ashley posing/modeling at Athleta, soccer, skating and Ninja Warrioring, being obsessed with Barnes and Noble, Unicorns, more soccer, family nites at the club, reading maps, Tamers in Training dance squad, nails and a whole lot of purging happening around our house :). A great month!!

Bracelets!

Trevor and his bud Eli (ok Ashley too) are all obsessed with making bracelets.  So they decided to build up an inventory and then sell them at the end of our driveway!  They had success and made like $8 very quickly before dinner!  Bet there will be another bracelet sale in the future here soon :) 

Ashley the Sickie :(

Ashley woke up at 3am throwing up and continued to do so until about 9am.  Poor girl had nothing left in her.  Maybe it was something she ate or maybe it was a norovirus but she never had a fever so that was good.  She laid around all day watching tv and her iPad complaining of stomach pain and then finally at 2:30pm she fell asleep - on the ground of all places!!  She took almost a 3 hour nap and then was back to her old self!  Now just hoping that nobody else gets it!

Donuts with Dudes/Dudettes

It was raining heavily the morning of Donuts with Dudes at CPE (for last names A-M) and Daddy's car would have got stuck in the muddy overflow parking area so the three amigos hit up Krispy Kreme before school for a special version of Donuts with Dudes.  

On Thursday Mommy helped out the PTO at the school for last names N-Z and brought Sophia and the kids with.  We called that day Donuts with Dudettes!  

NWA Challenge for Hope

One day at the Pinnacle pool, we got asked by the former CMO at Sam's Club if we wanted to play in the NWA Challenge for Hope tennis tournament that he was co-chairing.  We had no idea what that was but we said yes and gosh are we glad we did!  We played on different teams for former pro-tennis players and each played 4 matches.  Brian even got to play with his pro for one of his matches! (See below pic)  Holy inspiring!  We must step up our tennis game!  

On Friday night, Sara was Chandra's plus one for the Gala at the clubhouse.  We sat at Walmart's VIP table and had a fun time watching people out bid each other during the live auction.

Saturday Sara had a 7am tennis match which we ended up losing in tie break (grrr) but then for her 4th match she was paired up with Wes again from her 1st match and they pulled out a come from behind victory!!!  Felt great!

Saturday night we checked out the pro exhibition match.  Once again, #goals.  

And Sara got her pic taken with her team captain, pro Luke Jensen!  Can't wait to play again next year in this tournament.  A great time for a great cause!!!