It's been a busy few weeks! After the excitement of the big Superbowl win by the Seahawks, we picked up the pace on making decisions for the bathroom renovation. So much to figure out! I think we are settled on the major things, some things are ordered and some things will be ordered soon (gotta order the tile and small bit of carpet we need for the master closet). It's been a lot but I'm happy we have a good jump on things. Everything of course costs more than we thought it would, which is expected (did you know that free standing tub faucets can cost over $3000?? That's more than the tub! We did not go that fancy, yikes). I'm excited for it to all come together, that will be the fun part!
Last weekend was my tournament in Ridgefield (just outside of Portland). We had afternoon wave so I left Saturday morning. Brian was taking the boys and picking up Lynsey at the airport around 1pm, and then he came down to Portland for one night. He actually dropped Lynsey off at the tournament so she could hang out with me and Leli (my junior coach who happens to be a good friend of hers) for a few hours which I LOVED! She took stats for me on the bench and I just loved having her there. Wish she could come to more of my tournaments! I miss volleyball tournaments with her! Brian picked her up around dinner time and he took the kids out for dinner while I was at the tournament. My team actually had a pretty good first day at the tournament, we went 2-1 (and the game we lost was against a team that is ranked 3rd in the PSR Power league while we are ranked something like 40th, so it was not unexpected). They put up a good fight in that game, only losing the first set 25-23 so I was really proud of them!
That night I went back to the hotel in Portland and hung out with the family (thankfully we were staying at the same hotel, Lynsey actually stayed with me in my room). The next day we had breakfast and then Brian and I went to the pool with Adam while Lynsey and Nathan hung out in the room playing video games. Adam had a great time in the pool, I'm so glad he can still get enjoyment out of these simple things! We got Brian and the kids checked out and went to get Brian's car charged (the joys of a road trip with an electric vehicle!) and then went to a delicious barbeque place for lunch. They dropped me back off at the hotel and made their way home while I got ready for day 2 at the tournament. We were now in the top half of teams, so we were not quite as successful on day 2, going 1-2. I was proud of the girls for fighting hard and winning that last game, it was not an easy one and they really gutted it out! Monday morning we lost our first bracket game unfortunately, but we took it to three sets and it was very close - 15-13. All in all a successful tournament for us and I'm proud of how they played against some good teams. I stopped at In and Out burger on my way home and that was a bit crazy! It was sooo busy at 2pm, yikes! It was worth the wait, the burger and fries were delicious:-). A great cap to a fun weekend!
We had a great week with Lynsey at home, always nice to all be together again. She had to go and get glasses as she was noticing she wasn't seeing things as well as before. I'll have to ship them to her when they come in because I could not find a place that does 1 hour glasses, so strange that it's not really a thing here! Brian and Nathan had their last basketball game Saturday morning so Lynsey, Adam and I went to watch - they were sooo close but couldn't quite pull it out. A good fight to end the season! Lynsey and I went to watch Wuthering Heights in the theatre in the afternoon, it was a good movie but quite sad:-(. Sunday morning, Brian drove her to the airport and she was off to Edmonton.
I guess I have to talk about Sunday morning . . . and the sad loss by Team Canada to Team USA in the gold medal game at the Olympics:-(. If I thought Wuthering Heights was sad, I was not prepared for how gutted I would feel about losing this hockey game! Nathan took it pretty hard, after winning the 4 Nations Tournament last year I think he was fully expecting Canada to win again but it was not meant to be this time. They definitely had their chances, and Connor did about as much as he could but Hellebuck was too much for us to overcome (and we missed some open nets). Oh well - it was an exciting tournament with some really fun moments that I am thankful for! Very proud to be Canadian and even with this loss would rather die than be an American fan right now. Apparently one of Trump's cronies was in the locker room post game, which is already weird, and he called Trump and Trump invited the men's team to the State of the Union address. He of course had to make some ignorant comment about how he would also pretty much be forced to invite the women's team (although good for the women's team, they very politely declined the invitation while I'm sure holding up their middle fingers behind their backs!). I just can't stress enough how very proud I am to be Canadian, and thrilled that our kids are just as proud! Now to try and teach Nathan about losing gracefully when I struggle so much with it myself lol! Life goes on, it's just a game:-).
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