The Weekend Report

A WILD and crazy Friday night in the big city for an MRI... clearly she's less than impressed... but we gotta get this shoulder figured out.... praying for results sooner rather than later...

Miss B and I planted all my dahlias on Saturday morning while Minnie and Husband went to practice...the rain moved in for the afternoon so we headed to NH to grab a few plants... 

Came home and these two started on the Mother's Day tradition... Husband's fav.  ;)

Twinbies...

Went with hot coral this year... picked out by Husband and Miss B... 

Gosh I love 'em....

Minnie had to ref in the afternoon but we ended the night with Husband's amazing grilling....

Track Meets!

70 and SUNNY are my FAVORITE track meet days! I have put a LOT of time in in sweltering heat and in cold and rain so I was VERY grateful for a BEAUTIFUL day to watch Miss B do her things!! 

The girl that beat her is a Trailblazer teammate and her dad is one of our summer coaches.... he was there cheering for BOTH teams and coaching BOTH girls. So fun! Hooray for Miss B's PR and NEW MMS SCHOOL RECORD!

I made it to the meet before she started anything and caught up with MIL... I arrived at 3:55...

and these gals raced over from their practice to cheer her on! So fun to have fans!!!!

Miss B was DONE all of her events by 4:55....worlds SHORTEST track meet again! Husband met me there so we left together and the gals stayed until the end. 

They raced into the house to grab sandwiches and slap some fresh deodorant on so they could head to West Buxton church to watch their fav tiny people in a play!!! Miss B with the props at the end cracks me up!

Little actors! I LOVE it!

On Wednesday it was YUCKY weather... Husband had heard all week that if the meet was moved it would be to Friday....Wednesday arrived and they moved it to THURSDAY... The same night as my Family Night at MY school where I had 3 teenage volunteers helping.... ack! Miss B and Paisyn agreed to ride the late bus up to my school after their practice so they could still help out (and not leave my Title 1 teacher in the LURCH). They were well taken care of, fed and amazing volunteers! 

This enabled MIL to meet at my house... we grabbed Barks and made it to Biddo to see the last 2 disc throws.... 

and then head over to jav!

It was a little breezy and she didn't do what she can but still a SOLID performance!

Love my BEAST!

Photo by Boys Track Team Member

Photo by Boys Track Team Member

At shot we ALL (Minnie, Husband and I) thought we recognized the guy in the grey shirt.....

Photo by Boys Track Team Member

After she competed she asked me he was "just chuck it" a nickname fondly given to her VERY FIRST throws coach when she competed for Saco Bay Striders at 6 years old...Husband and I connected with him and sure enough... it SURE WAS! Full circle moment for all of us for SURE!

Husband does love taking ALL the points :)

One of my FAVORITE parts of the meet was the 4x100m... I saw Jordyn, a girl that SHOULD have been a MHS girl and actually did Trailblazers for a few years get lined up with Minnie on the 300 corner.... oh dear. They play bball against each other and have known each other for about 8 years... Minnie came into it behind but you can see went by the Kennebunk girl and was chasing down Jordyn... they passed off their batons, slowed down and Minnie gave her a high five... Jordyn came in for a hug. I wish I would have captured it!!! Minnie and I laughed and said that would NEVER have happened on a bball court but I just LOVE me some track culture....

Hated losing to Mia and Jordyn.... but....

At the end of the day..... these were the only points that mattered! WHOOP WHOOP!!!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

 

I felt this in my soul. I don't lose them anymore like I did as a teen but man... all came rushing back when I saw this post!

The Weekend Report: SPOILER ALERT!! BOSTON

 It was a FULL weekend for Miss B and I...but SO SO FUN! Settle in for picture overload!

We kicked off Saturday with a trip to the mall! Miss B organized a dress shopping trip with her friends for 8th grade celebration. WE struck out in the dress department for Miss B but certainly not with the crew we had with us!!! SO FUN! We left them around 12 because Miss B and I had to be home by 1:00.

A couple of weeks ago Miss B mentioned on the couch that for "her trip" she wanted to see Anne Wilson. Miss B has sang 3-4 of her songs at church for special music and she just LOVES her! Fast forward to Thursday night and I was mindlessly scrolling on my phone and just thought... I should look to see where she's playing.... maybe Miss B and I could fly to ATL or somewhere to see her... just brainstorming.... and all of a sudden up on my phone came BOSTON....ON SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!

When Husband tucked me in I threw the idea at him and I slept on it.... Friday and work I waffled ALL DAY but saw there were train tixs available, concert tixs available and nixed spending the night so it would save some money....on Friday when I got home I talked to Husband and we decided to DO IT... WAY out of my comfort zone but I knew how HAPPY it would make Miss B! Minnie was gone to a LAX game so he and I told her we had to tell her something and then.... I cried. I was SO SO SO excited and happy... couldn't help it!!! Terrified... but happy. 

So at 2:24 we loaded the train and headed on our adventure!!! Backwards.... which was very weird and made my stomach feel a little "off"....but SOOOO worth it to NOT DRIVE!

We landed at 4:15 at North Station on the same day the Red Sox were playing and the Celtics were in town for GAME 7 of the playoffs vs. the 76's. And if you know Husband... you know Miss B was NOT rooting for the Celtics. Beantown was CRAZY!!!

We walked around a little bit... my stomach was a little woozy from the train and then Miss B found this restaurant on her phone for us to get some blue-hair dinner :) We were looking at it from the outside and I was concerned that it wasn't going to be good because it didn't look busy from the outside... but lemme TELL YOU as soon as we opened that door.... oh.m.goodness. It was RIGHT ROWDY inside and FULL of patrons! They had a bunch of TVs on with softball, Kentucky Derby coverage, Red Sox game, Celtics pre-game... it was a BLAST inside! Our food was yummy and all of a sudden it was time for our next adventure.... the UBER!!! I have NEVER taken an UBER before and had to put the app on my phone the night before...it worked GREAT but man we were nervous! :)

We arrived at Shubert Theatre to wait in line for the doors to open about 15 min early. A little God-Wink moment... our place in line was RIGHT next to the adorable black lab drug sniffing dog... who was "working" but Miss B and I got to watch him with his handler just sit and beg for treats! She was LOVING it!

Boots obvi!

The theater was BEAUTIFUL inside! We walked up the stairs to the mezzanine only to realize they were still doing a soundcheck so we couldn't get in to our seats yet.... so we walked back down to that huge crowd of people to stand in line for merch...

She made a perfect choice! Love her!

Husband helped us navigate the ticket purchasing situation....and our seats were so good! The theater only seats about 1600 people so there really wasn't a "BAD" seat in the house. Just a "little" annoying that we were the walking path and lots of people going in and out during the show....

See how pretty the theater is!

Boots obvi!

The chandelier was amazing!

and SO WAS ANNE WILSON!!!!! We loved every second of the concert but my very FAV PART was the video I took of Miss B belting out the words to every song!!!

We even made her insta-story!!! 

The UBER back to the train station was clean, quiet and the car was very nice... BUT the driver tried to drop us on some alley that was NOT our destination. So proud of Miss B...bringing her map right up on her phone and telling the lady... nope... take a left right here and sure enough.... there was the Garden!

My coworker suggested business class on the way home at the LEAST and I'm SO GLAD we did! The Celtics game got out as we were waiting for our train and they were drunk, angry, and loud!!! I mean... can't blame them... it was a sad loss but a WINNING NIGHT FOR MISS B! She refused to watch any of the 8 TV's in the station because she thought the Sixers would lose if she watched.... luckily there was a man standing at the bar that was giving her a play by play every time the Celtics would miss a shot! BAH!

We arrived home around 12:35AM and my girl was SOOOOO TIRED!! I was SO proud of both of us for stepping WAY out of our comfort zone because it was SO worth it!