true cross spring 2017 band concert

Last night was Shelby's last band performance of the school year. She received an award for outstanding soloist from the gator band music festival!

Field day at True Cross

Little League Rockhounds

We are halfway through little league season and I'm pretty sure I am one of the only few parents that is not treating this like the MLB. There are some intense parents at the ball park who like to cuss out players, coaches and umpires. Tucker's having a blast. He goes between 1st base, 3rd base and outfield. He usually gets hit by the pitch or gets walked but has managed to get a few hits with RBI's. He loves to slide and he tends to score at every game. He seems to love it! Yay!

Run like a Diva 5k

Shelby ran the Run Like A Diva 5k over the weekend. In February she set a new goal to start running and here it is the end of April and she is still going strong. She looks and feels fantastic! She beat her time goal and made the 5k in 32 minutes, was in the top 10 of her age group and 142nd out of 1600+ runners. I'm so very proud of her!! Pre 5k she was given a shirt and tutu to wear and then afterwords she got a medal, tiara and feather boa!

Mizuno Cross Court Volleyball Tournament

We had to come back from vacation Friday night so Shelby could make it to her VB tournament at the George R Brown. I love going to these tournaments and watching Shelby play. But dear Lord was this tournament a total buzz kill off a great vacation. It just sucked!! LOL Oh - and Shelby broke her finger in this tournament. She sucked it up and played through it though.

St. Croix Spring Break 2017 - Days 5 and 6

I was determined to get out of bed on Day 5. We explored the island in the jeep this day. We went to Salt River Bay where Christopher Columbus landed in 1493. Then we drove to the west side of the island and checked out a few beaches and had lunch at the Turtle Deli. Then we headed to Christiansted to do some souvenir shopping board a catamaran at Caribbean Sea Adventures for a sunset cruise. This is where we decided to...surprise!!!.. Get married! By the boat captain who looked like Luke Bryan. It was perfect.

 

Day 6 was the day we had to leave. We woke up at 4:30 to be at the airport by 5am. We finally arrived home by 4:30pm and vacation was over. It was hard to leave the island. It was just too beautiful to describe. Spending that time with my parents and my brother and his family was very much needed and appreciated. My family is awesome and I am now excited to say that Chris and Brody are officially part of this awesome family!

St. Croix Spring Break 2017 - Day 4

Day 4 was spent with me stuck in bed because I couldn't move from the day's previous injury. So I watched from my bed (Can't complain about the view - 1st picture) through binoculars as my family went on Big Beards boat to Buck Island to snorkel. They of course had an amazing time.

 

St Croix Spring Break 2017 - Day 3

For Day 3 in St Croix we kicked off the morning with family photos with a photographer. I can't wait to see how the photos turned out. Then we hopped in the jeep and went for a ride through the "rainforest" which really wasn't a rainforest. We stopped in for a memorable "lunch" at Montpellier Domino Club. It was a run down shack in the middle of no where and their menu consisted of wings and fish and chips for the day. Those were the only options. And then there was the Mama Wanna juice drink which we deemed as poisonous hooch. It was absolutely disgusting but everyone raved about this place and the drinking pigs. So we paid $2 for some non alcoholic beers and fed them to the pigs. It. Was. Disgusting. But the kids loved it, and it's apparently on every "must see/do" list from trip advisor. So we've seen and done it. After the drinking pigs we headed to Rainbow beach on the west side of the island. This is the beach that I got injured with a chunk of coral rock slamming into my tailbone. 9 days later and I'm still miserable from it.