New Family Pics

One of my friends in the ward took these awesome family pictures. She really is so talented. So I need to decide how to display them on the really big blank wall behind our couch in our living room. I want to do some sort of picture combination so it takes up a lot of space. And maybe a family quote somewhere in there (perhaps vinyl?). I have no idea what to do, so any suggestions are more than welcome! Perhaps you could vote and tell me which picture should be the main big picture? Also, for any family members who want a picture for their house, choose which one you want, leave a comment, and don't forget to tell me what size you would like:)

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New Shirts

Our friend sent us these cute matching shirts--- in the mail---!! Cheyenne LOVES to get mail. We walked out to the mailbox and I gave her the box and she told me to open it and she wanted to put it on "right now." I just love these girls:)

Big South

The pictures are all scrambled, but here is a long train of blocks Cheyenne made in our 2nd hotel room:

Waiting in the MARTA station on our way home, we kept barely missing our connecting trains, so it took us 2 hours to get back to our hotel:

Before one of our games:

The coca-cola man, which Cheyenne thought was Jesus:

A giant blow up dog at the dog contest show thing that Cheyenne was scared of:

Jeff took this picture, I am not so sure where it is, somewhere downtown Atlanta though:

Jeff found a dog show and took Cheyenne in to watch it:

Walking to lunch before the first day of our tournament:

Me in my coaching jacket:)

Cheyenne, Berkeley and I in our awesome hotel room at the downtown Hilton:

We had a tournament in Atlanta, that actually did not go well and I would prefer not to remember, but I am posting about it anyway... maybe I am addicted to blogging? I don't know. I have about 25 journals that are filled up from 1st grade on. I have always been a big journal writer... my blog is now my journal, so I guess I need to record the good, bad and the ugly! Hah! Anyway, this tournament is a National Qualifier and was held in the Georgia World Congress Center. They had three tournament divisions for every age group from 12's-18s. There were 96 teams in our division. That gives you an idea of how many teams were participating in this- over 1500. The sucky part is that it is 3 days long and you only know what wave you will be playing in the first day, but the next two days you do not know. We were given a pm wave for Friday, so we had to stay in a hotel friday and saturday night. Then we found out we needed to register our team on Thursday so we got a different hotel for Thursday night as well. We decided to make a vacation out of it (as much as we could, I was pretty busy the whole time). Thursday night we got a deal on hotwire for the Hilton downtown atlanta. It would have been a better deal if we didn't have to pay $20 extra for parking, but of course I didn't realize that when I booked the hotel. It was actually pretty fun to stay downtown Atlanta, because we never had before. Oh and there were volleyball players everywhere in Atlanta this weekend so we fit right in. Our hotel was full of them. The first night we checked in and walked to eat. We ended up eating in the mall foodcourt at some chinese restaurant. The next morning we worked out in their fitness center which was awesome. Then Jeff dropped me off at the tournament. He took both girls and checked in to our other cheaper hotel for the next two nights which was located in the Perimeter area. The next day we had the great idea to ride the MARTA to the tournament. It was about 30 minutes driving, but the MARTA ended up taking an hour on the way there and 2 hours on the way back. Yes, we definitely regretted that decision! Sunday Jeff just took the girls and picked me up after. I was so happy for it to be over. Our team came out AMAZING the first game and barely lost in 3 games to a team from Florida who was much more experienced than us, after that they shut down, there was some 15 year old girl issues between them all and was basically a nightmare. We did not play very well and the whole thing was a big headache. We thankfully recovered, because in our next tournament we played up a division and got 3rd out of 8 teams which was really good. I am thankful to Jeff for supporting me in coaching volleyball because I love it and he is really supportive about it. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures with him in it, but I guess I was just focused on something else at the time.

March Madness 2011

This was the game after ours, I was too into our game, I forgot to take any pictures during it, but this is Oregon vs. Duke. It is so weird because UNC fans were way more crazy cheering against Duke than they were cheering for UNC during their game vs. UW.

Frank discussing the game with some randoms:

Before the game, waiting for them to open the doors... we were really excited:

A picture by the court, we were way early:

This year Georgia played Washington in Charlotte, in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. We wanted to go to that game, but I had a volleyball tournament really early the next morning in Atlanta and it would have been too much. We didn't go, but Washington thankfully ended up winning and so we went to the next game vs. UNC. It was pretty much a home game for UNC since we were in Charlotte. It was so close and Washington ended up barely losing. It was funny because after the game random Duke and Michigan fans were coming up to us (there weren't many other UW fans there) and saying, "that was a good fight, you played a good game." I thought it was ridiculous... I didn't play, I sat there and watched. Sometimes sports fans don't realize they are just sitting there watching, they think they could go out there and do just as good... also people kept asking if we were leaving and if they could have our seats, haha there weren't many seats higher up than ours... we should have offered to trade them!

Our friends recently moved to Charlotte and were so so nice to watch Cheyenne and Berkeley for us while we went to the game. They even made us delicious BBQ pizza after the game- so good! We had so much fun and made some great memories! We tried getting better seats in the handicapped section, but kept getting booted. It was kind of embarrassing so finally we just went back to our seats in the nosebleed section! hah!

Threepeat!

Cheyenne's diaper was soaked through her pants in this picture:

This was the third tournament we won in a row. The most successful team in Georgia Juniors history:)
Me coaching... I am not as intense as when I coached high school... club is just a different atmosphere. Here I am signaling to my player where to serve.

My faithful fans! It was a loooong day. I think we left about 6:30 am and didn't get home til around 10:30 pm. It was so nice of them to all come and support me! Jeff doesn't get to watch me coach much because he is always busy himself coaching football and basketball. It was fun to have family there.

The Trick

I did this trick with Cheyenne when she was a baby at one of Jeff's work parties and his principal was so amazed and said I should put her on a talent competition. It was really funny, because it looks pretty amazing if you have never seen it, but any baby will do it, it is like balancing a ruler on your hand. Also, every time you are finished and you go to catch the baby, people gasp because they think you are going to drop them. It is great. Here we are doing the trick with Berkeley:

Grandpa Frank's Broken Foot Visit

Grandpa Frank reading to the girls

Notice the Washington shirt next to our neighbor's Georgia flag:

Everyone with the shades on:

Grandpa Frank came out for a week since he broke his foot jumping rope and was out of work for a few months. It was so much fun! Cheyenne LOVED having him here and talked about him for the month after he left. She still calls the back room Grandpa Frank's room. Cheyenne also now thinks that Grandpa Frank lives at the airport. She always says she wants to drive to Grandpa Franks house and asks if it is far far away.

Volleyball Sleepover

About a month or so ago I had a sleepover at our house with my club volleyball team I am coaching. It was so much fun! Cheyenne loved having them here and it made me feel like a teenager again:) The girls are just so awesome. They are such good girls. We started off the night playing Twister:

The girls love to hold Berkeley and play with Cheyenne:

We had chocolate fondue and some other snacks, after I cleaned up the kitchen I came out to find them all lined up on the couch silent looking at their phones. It was so funny I had to take a picture. We were all there together, but no one was really "there." AND they all have sweet iphones, they laugh at my old school free phone you get with the plan... which isn't surprising, because it falls apart like every practice when I am trying to time a drill!

I made them put their phones away and we played American Idol Karaoke... so funny! Also, some girl talk time and stayed up til 1 am.

The next morning we took Cheyenne and Berkeley for a walk in the wagon around the neighborhood in our pajamas. One of the neighbors was washing his car (it was around 9:30 am). He asked if I had a sleepover with my friends... haha. I told him it was a volleyball team that I coached.

The next night after the sleepover a girl on our team was in the play "Hairspray" at her high school. I drove a few of the girls and we went and watched it. It was pretty cute. She was in the chorus and she was totally the best one. I think she will have bigger parts in the future as she is only a freshman.
During the play a boy passed Kristina a note with his phone number and it said, "text me." So funny!! They were going to text him on the drive home, but lost the piece of paper. I am sure her parents are probably glad they lost it, haha! We stopped and got ice cream cones at McDonald's, then I drove the girls home.
It was a fun time and must have helped with team bonding because we won the next two tournaments making it three in a row that we won! Go Georgia Juniors!