We are the (Georgia) Champions!! Off to Mobile

This is a picture of our ALTA team from our St.Patrick's day match.

This is the towel that we got for being STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

Wow!! What a weekend!! My USTA tennis team went to State finals in Rome GA this past weekend. This weekend was one of the most exciting weekends of my entire life. Have you ever worked so hard and wanted something so bad? Well our team wanted it so bad and we have been playing tons and tons of tennis to be prepared for this weekend. We played ladies from Augusta, Columbus, Dalton, Macon, Woodstock, etc. I thought it was a little funny because we played a team that is 5 minutes from us in the semifinals and a team 15 minutes from us in the quarter finals. We did not lose a match the entire weekend. UNBELIEVABLE. Today we played our final match at 9:30 and it came down to our captain, Captain Gray (Crunch). She lost the first set and was up 4-3 in the second set when I started watching her. I had no doubt in my mind that if this whole thing was left on her shoulders that she was going to pull it off. Well She DID!!! We all stormed the courts and were in awe of what we accomplished. This entire weekend we had the support of family and friends that meant so much to all of us. We got tennis towels that say State Champions, 2 more bag tags, a picture frame and a packet full of information for our regional tournament starting July 18th.

The Great Escape!

Jack loves cars. As you see here he is eating his breakfast with his car in his hand.

So cute!! I just want to kiss him 1,000 times. :)

Daddy taught Emma who her favorite Braves players are. Of course they are Brian McCann and Chipper Jones!! She had her picture made last year with Brian at an autograph signing. Brian was very nice. I saw this T-shirt at the store and it is a Chipper Jones t-shirt so of course I had to get it for her. Emma loves her daddy so much!!

Emma on the swing that Pa and Grandpa built for their Christmas present. Thank you Pa and Grandpa!!!

Jack sitting in Emma's Elmo chair.

This morning we heard Jack stirring in his crib. I got up to go and get him, but before I got there, we heard a big THUMP! And then crying from Jack. YIKES!! That is a scary sound. Jack jumped out of his crib onto the hardwood floors. We remember this sound from about a year ago as Emma tried the Great Escape several times. Last year I was freaking out because Emma kept climbing out of her crib. I asked everyone I know what they did. My next door neighbor Kate told me that she just firmly told her son that he was not to climb out of his crib. I thought that was the craziest idea and would never work since Emma is a typical red head! Well to our surprise this worked!!! She is now 30 months old and has not done it since. Hopefully this same technique will work with our Jack.
Tennis Update:
Bobby and I went to playoffs for our T-2 match and won the first round, but lost the second. We were both having an off moment. What stinks is that we almost won and we were playing bad.
My ALTA team were division champs!! We won the first round of playoffs, but we are going to have to forfeit this weekend due to the fact that most people are on our USTA team and we are going to Rome this weekend for our State championship matches. On Friday we play two matches. One at 11am and the other at 3:30, Saturday we play at 8:00 and 12:30, then Sunday we play a match at 9:30 and if we are the winners then we play again at 2pm. That is TONS of tennis. I have never played that much tennis in such a short amount of time. It will be lots of fun though.