Wrigley Trip

For our Cubs game trip this year we decided to do another first…back to back games. We did a night game and then a day game in the bleachers the next day. Unfortunately, we had another first…our first loss at a game. It was NOT fun to not be able to sing our song at the end. But even a bad day at Wrigley is better than most regular days!

Cookies from the hotel

Conteras was DH on day 1.

FUN cups for our margaritas – or daiquiris – I can never remember!

A quick shopping trip before game 2.

Bleachers for game 2!

Conteras caught game 2!

Before we passed out, we found a nice shaded spot for the rest of the game.

Post game drinks in the A/C!

You can see our whole trip in selfies here.

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Birthday Weekend

Mom and I had a great surprise for our birthday weekend…Tara and Tom came! We had a great weekend of movies, dinners and just fun time together. I LOVE family time.

We started with seeing Jurassic World. It was a long year wait, but worth it.

Dinner on my birthday.

Dinner on Mom’s birthday

My love

My best friends

We ended the weekend with music in the park. It was HOT, but fun!

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Happy Last Day

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Goodbye Middle School, Hello High School

Patrick graduated from 8th grade! I am so proud of all his hard work this year. While becoming an athlete again, he also maintained straight As in the classroom.

Receiving the Presidential Award

His good friend Michael

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8th Grade Track Recognition

The track team held a recognition dinner for the 8th grade runners. The coach took the time to talk about and honor each athlete. It was so nice to hear another adult’s opinion of my child. He had very nice things to say, but what he said that stood out and made me the most proud was that Patrick always gives his all. He is always willing to try and do anything that is asked of him.  ❤️

He found out the week before track started that he has a slipped disc in his back which makes for almost constant back pain. The doctor told him that exercise would help so he decided to go ahead with the season. I am so very proud of him. Not only did he try a new sport his 8th grade year, but he also worked his butt off. These practices were no joke! But he did it. He did 2 hour practices every day for a month. That’s a lot of running. That’s one tough boy. 😀

He got to try the 100, 200, 400, 4×200 and 4×400.

Fighting for first!

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