First Sleepover

Tia had possibly her last exhibition Friday night at Osceola. It wasn't their best performance, but if you don't get to see those awesome jobs you probably wouldn't have noticed. Last year when we did it Osceola was playing my almamater-->sp. This year they were playing a team I didn't know, so we took off after our performance. Sue thanked the girls for their dedication with a pair of socks each. The socks were cute and the girls liked them...thanks Sue! We headed for something to eat, Tia had ate before we left home, so she didn't want much. We ended up at McDonald's (I was thinking fast). Then we have sleepovers, so needed gifts for b-days and went to Walmart. I'm the worlds worst gift giver and the girls couldn't really think of anything to give their friends (this is all new for Tara).


Tara had basketball on Saturday at Panora. I had a brain fart and we left a half hour earlier than we needed to, (this was hurrying Tia around getting ready) but that gave us time to stop at the car wash(so we could see out the back window). The weather has been gorgeous and snow piles everywhere are melting, creating wet streets. We watched the first 4th grade team play and they won. Then Tara's team turned around and played the same team the first team played. The girls were starving, but I talked them into stopping at Ben Franklins first. I was looking for material or a pattern for a baby quilt, didn't really have luck with either. We stopped and had Subway on the way home (Tara got a personal pizza at Subway). She's a hard one to feed eating fast food...french fries are her favorite, she also likes ice cream (but can't usually eat much of a small shake). Gene is always invited to a truckers supper at Hy-Vee, he went to the first one and it has been 15 yrs, he decided to go again. Tara was invited to Gracey's b-day party....now trying to figure out how to be in two places at the same time. Tara asked me to stay home and take her to Gracey's (it was hard not too). I checked with Brook's mom, Kenzie's mom, grandma, Gracey's mom and finally got a hold of Carlyn's mom whew we were out of time and needed to be on the road to the truckers supper. Carlyn was going and Tara could ride with them to the party. I was a little nervous with this being her first outing. Gracey is a champ and showed the girls a good time. Tara was all smiles when I picked her up. She also wanted to know if she could go back to Carlyn's house to play?? I told her she would have to wait until she was invited. The food was excellent at Gene's supper and we even brought Tia home a piece of cake (triple chocolate) she did alot of moaning(it really was good).

Sunday Tia played basketball in Melcher. The first game was with Knoxville and they kept the score very close the first half and Knoxville ran away with the game in the second half. The girls killed time for an hour and played Melcher. I felt bad for Melcher, we won 2-39. We've been in that place way too many times. Tara took a 10 min nap on the way home. I look for her to be in bed around 7. She stayed up late last night.