August 2013

 In August, things got CRAZY!!! Volleyball at NOHS was in full swing, Cheyenne started Pre-k, and soccer and continued with gymnastics, Jeff's parents and my dad came out to visit and Jeff and I flew to Dallas for success school.

 Cheyenne started Pre-k August 7th. It is every single day from 7:30 to 3 pm. I had been looking forward to Cheyenne going to pre-k since I found out about it, because I thought that was so cool. I was so surprised when I went to drop her off, I was so sad and didn't want her to go! Cheyenne got a little nervous, but was super excited and she definitely loves it. She loves all the kids in her class and has made so many new friends. She is the sweetest thing, really. Her favorite friend is a little girl named Michelle and she also really likes this boy Avery. They are who she talks about the most.

 Cheyenne continued with gymnastics and continued to love it. She also started soccer! The league was definitely not the right one for her and her level. It was U-6, so almost all the kids were much older and bigger than her and had played before. Cheyenne couldn't keep up with them and rarely got to touch the ball. The coach was great with the kids and positive and encouraging, but unfortunately cared about winning (which is not the best for development of 4 & 5 year olds) and so Cheyenne didn't get to play much and when she did he would only have the best players throw in the ball instead of giving everyone a chance to learn. I think the 3v3 leagues are definitely the best for the little ones so they can actually touch the ball more and everyone gets to play. They weren't supposed to be keeping score, but some of the coaches did, which was really annoying. On top of that, the games were soooo far away, (30 minute drive), so we are just going to go with the Athens one next year, hopefully it is a better experience. On a positive note, Cheyenne still had fun and was excited to go. I even offered her a scoop of ice cream every time she touched the ball and that game she touched it 3 times! I think her favorite thing was the treat after the game.

Jeff and I flew to Dallas for success school using our free plane tickets from Jeff's near death experience. We are soooo grateful to Connie and Frank for coming out and watching our girls!! We also got a few days with Connie and Frank too, so that was really great. We flew in to Houston and then drove 4 hours to Dallas. We went to Success School (for Advocare) Friday night, all day Saturday and the morning Sunday. It was really awesome. We saw FC Dallas Soccer team, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Emmit Smith, all the Advocare Doctors were there talking about the products, Erik Wahl spoke and painted amazing pictures right in front of us, Micheal W. Smith performed on Sunday. Then Sunday we drove to Houston and stayed in a hotel there and came home Monday.

My dad came for a visit shortly after which was really nice to have him here too. He got to come to a volleyball game as well.

Volleyball went great in August, we finished the month 11-0. And ranked 4th in the state! It was a good month, but definitely a lot going on, thank goodness Jeff wasn't coaching football!