Monday, June 25, 2018

LPGA Week!!!

LPGA week is by far the best week of the year for Pinnacle!  The fact that we live in the community where the tournament is played just makes it SO fun.  And of course, we got to host our favorite player again this year!!!  Oma didn't come this year but her caddie Micky needed a place so we hosted him too!  The kids couldn't wait for them to get to our house - they were in full on stalker mode all Monday after getting home from their morning camps.  

And then around 3:30pm they arrived!!!
Toby's tail just wouldn't stop wagging seeing HY!

The first night we went out to eat!
When HY wasn't practicing she was on the ground playing with the kids!
Giving golf tips!
Trying out kid's toys!
More playing!
Hanging out!
Tuesday night we grilled and celebrated HY's big comeback at the previous week's tournament.  On Saturday she ended tied for 108th....and on Sunday she ended tied for 35th!!!!!  What a rally!

The kids were so excited to see HY in action so Mommy took them around on Wednesday when she played the Pro-Am!

The Pro-Am is way more low key than the big tourney so HY took Trevor's scooter for a ride on hole 2!
On hole 4 HY gave Trevor the opportunity to hit off the tee and boy did he impress the group!!  Great drive on the first try!!!  (Video on Instagram)
Then it was Daddy's turn to play in the Pro-Am!  
Daddy played Thursday, the day of Ashley's dance tryout.  The golfer he played with took time to ask her how it went and to show her one of the try out songs!  The LPGA players are so personable and nice!!


Pretty sure they had a great time!!
On Friday, the kids checked out some of the activities for kids at the tourney including the S.T.E.A.M tent!

And then they watched a few holes of golf!
HY's #1 cheering section right here!
Trevor has got to be her #1 fan!
On Saturday Trevor was set on walking all 18 holes to follow HY and he did it.  Not one complaint.  
But he did require ice cream!
And an umbrella for shade!
Fortunately or unfortunately HY didn't make the cut so we had a day of fun on Sunday.  She either blew it to hang out with the kids or to rest up for next week's major tourney.  Either way, we soaked up the time together.  After brunch at the club we went to Dave and Buster's!

HY has killer dance moves - beat Mommy by a landslide!!!!
We took Trevor to get his hair cut and with HY's motivation he finally did a mohawk.  Probably helped too that his cousin Sam just did one too and we will see him in a few weeks.  

We went to our favorite winery!

Then off to Shogun for hibachi!



She left at 5am Monday morning to catch her flight.  Mommy woke up to say goodbye and the kids were thrilled when they found this note on their nightstand :)  Will miss having HY and Micky around but we know that next year will be here before we know it and hopefully we can see HY in CA sometime before then!!!!

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Competition Dance for Ashley!

Ashley has the dance bug - as she has for 3 years!  Can't believe she's going into her 4th year of dancing!!!!  She decided to try out for the company team at Infiniti, where she cheers.  It was quite intense but we were happy to hear that she made the team!!!!  Unfortunately, during the process we learned that they dance 4-6 hours a week and the cost would require Mommy to go back to work just to pay for it LOL.  So we turned it down due to the cost factor and the fact that she still wants to do tumble, cheer and tennis and soccer.  She loves everything and she starts kindergarten!!  When we let Mr. Joshua know our decision he replied '...let me know when you are ready, I want to train her.  She is going to be a great dancer.'  :)
The studio where she's danced the last 2 years asked Ashley to try out for their competition team so she recruited her bestie to try out too!  They practiced the required routines and rocked it apparently.  We were ectatic to learn they both made the team.  Sophia will be on the Intermediate Lyrical team and Ashley made the Intermediate Jazz/MT/Char team and the Beginner Hip Hop team.  The weird thing is that once you make the team you have no say in their placements and you can't ask questions afterward.  The owner and her team makes the placements based on their tryouts and what they want on each team.  While we wish the girls were on one team together, we trust Miss Megan and are excited to see what these girls can do this next year!!!  4 regional competitions along with nationals!  Eek!!

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Father's Day

We got to celebrate how special Daddy is to us and we gave him gifts (well technically the window tints on his new car was the big gift he wanted) and let him relax - ha - when he wasn't throwing kids in the pool and cooking amazing meals.  We sure do appreciate how hard he works for his family and hope he always knows how much we love him!

Sunday, June 3, 2018

High Tea with Miss Arkansas

The community we live in has such wonderful events for the family - kids, adults and adult kids alike :)  Today's event was High Tea with the current Miss Arkansas!  So Mommy and Ashley dressed up and off we went.  One note is that Ashley said no makeup or fancy hair - she was burnt out on that after yesterday's dance recital LOL
Princess Ashley and the crown she made!
Miss Arkansas Maggie Benton who was as sweet as can be!
Ashley's friends Hannah and Mia....of course Ashley is sporting a cheer move!
The girls all learned how to pageant wave!
As did the Mom's :)