william was busy in june

 dirt bowl finals

leading worship

18s southerns in mobile

won a third set breaker after stellar coaching from coach sylvia

william and lytle were by far the tallest doubles team in the bracket

mobile has a cool sign system so you know who is on each court when you walk by.  i'm a fan!

wisdom teeth

 william got his wisdom teeth out, and he put on a show for the nurses in recovery.  he didn't say anything weird coming out of anesthesia, but he was in a recliner tapping his hands and feet to the music overhead. he had his eyes closed just going right along with the music.  one of the nurses said, "look at that kid.  he is right on beat."  so then she stopped the music.  he stopped.  she started it again.  he started again.  she changed the song.  he changed the beat.  they laughed and laughed.  they didn't know he was born with perfect rhythm!  

recovery was decent, but i had an angry teenager on my hand after a few days who wanted to eat real food!!  i'm glad we only have to do that once!

newk's

 have you ever driven to new braunfels, texas?  let me just tell you that it is a looooong way away!  texas goes on forever, but they do have some very nice speed limits!  :)  

wes spent three weeks at the john newcombe tennis ranch.  this place is all about the tennis.  the dorms are still the originals from when it was built (50s - 60s?) and the food was not great!  but, he said the tennis was awesome!  he made new friends and won a tournament in san antonio before he came home!  

braves - dodgers

 after the crawfish boil, we headed to atlanta for a few nights.  on the way, we visited auburn (for the third time), 

we visited UGA (it was a no!), 

georgia tech (it was a maybe!), 

saw the cousins, 

and went to a game in the braves/dodgers series.  we had one of those moments that will forever come up while on a road trip.  after typing in the hotel address into the maps app, i began to navigate us to it.  and we drove and drove and drove.  our hotel was by the baseball field, so chase kept saying, "i don't think this is anywhere near the baseball field.  this doesn't look right."  i had never been to the new braves stadium, so i was just following the app.  i didn't miss a single turn, followed every direction perfectly, and led us straight to a house in a very nice neighborhood in the sandy springs area!  there was no hotel anywhere near.  we laughed and wondered if we should just go knock on this door and ask them if they had a reservation for us!  i have no what happened.  but, it was obviously put into the app incorrectly!  i took a picture as proof that i am a fabulous navigator......i cannot help it if the directions that we are following are not right!

that pin right there is nowhere near where it's supposed to be, but it is labeled correctly!

we did make it to the hotel and the game.  dodgers won!

we also sat beside a guy that used to pitch for the dodgers.  he became a fan of my kids because they gave his kids the bobble heads that we got when we entered the stadium early.  i have no idea what his name was, but he insisted on a picture!  

the maps app did lead us straight to the chick-fil-a for breakfast the next morning on the way home, so i guess we will forgive it for it's hotel mistake! 

pike road crawfish boil

 several band members entertained the crowd at the pike road crawfish boil in montgomery, alabama.  we also got to enjoy some of their 7000 pounds of crawfish!!  fun day all around!

awards day

reed had no awards day.  i don't know why.  i can't explain it.  but, he had a very successful year with nothing below a 98 while also helping several classmates get through pre-algebra!

finals

 of course we were the last ones at the tennis center for the end of qualifying.  somehow, we always manage to be the ones to shut the place down.  wes and his buddies duked it out in the doubles final.  it was a late night drive back to tupelo, but it was a fun way to end!