Friday afternoon, I left work and came home to head to Allen, Texas! The girls and I were participating in the Texas Twister ATA Tournament and Danny and my parents were all coming with us!
When I got home, Danny had already ironed all our uniforms, and packed our bags,,I just needed to double check and add my stuff and we were ready to go! We hit the road at about 2pm, and then of course made the mandatory Buckee's stop in Madisonville!
We checked into our hotel and relaxed for a bit, then met up with a couple of the other ATA families for dinner at Uncle Julio's. The food and company was fantastic. The kids entertained themselves playing with dough!
Saturday morning we all woke-up showered , got ready, had breakfast at our hotel. (Dad through the miniature salt and pepper shakers were "SO CUTE" so those magically disappeared from our breakfast table! LOL) We headed to the Allen Convention Center for our tournament and it was a REALLY LONG DAY!!!!!!!
Isabella was the first one called to compete of us three..and it wasn't until about noon...so from 8am - noon we were sitting around waiting and waiting and waiting!!
Issy competed in forms and sparring. She took 1st place in forms for her ring and did not place in sparring (but she did do fantastic...they were tied up , and the ring timed out....she held her own for sure)
Once she was done, we did some more waiting and waiting. Makaila's ring was finally called to stage at about 2:45, and then taken to their competing area at about 4:30!!!! At this point I was ready to not compete myself..I was tired and hungry and cranky! LOL
Makaila started and did an awesome form. She tied with another girl for 2nd place and had to redo her form....beating the other girl and taking 2nd place in forms! She rocked it. Of course it was our luck that as soon as she started gearing up for sparring...my ring was called so I didn't get to see her spar!
I hung out in the staging area waiting for a ring to open up to be assigned...luckily....we were sent to the same ring Makaila was in because they were close to being done! I was able to watch her do combat sparring. She did phenomenal! I was very impressed. This was her first time competing in combat sparring and she was really good! (I tried to upload the video here..but keep getting errors...so you can view it on my facebook page)
Makaila ended up taking 2nd place in forms and she was not happy! She was really looking forward to placing in sparring...and it just didn't happen..even though she rocked it! After she was done I tried to give her a high five and instead she walked past me and rolled her eyes...it took everything in me not to slap that kid!! I understand that she was pissed off about loosing her matches, but as a mom...it really pissed me off to see her act so disrespectful!! As much money as we spend taking these kids to tournaments and paying for ATA crap....that's how I get treated in return....I really need to rethink some stuff!!
I ended up competing at about 5 and I took 3rd place in forms and 3rd place in sparring. I was tired and hungry and ready to get the hell out of that place. it was already 6pm, when I finished up (sadly there were still other competitors who still hadn't even been called to the staging area!). I went to collect my medals only to be told that they ran out and would send them to our school a few weeks later. I was beyond caring at this point!
We all crammed into the car and went to eat! Once we all ate and changed we felt much much better! The mood in our car changed dramatically. We opted to drive the 1.5 hours to Oklahoma to gamble! LOL
Again the car ride was full of laughter the whole way there. We got to the Winstar Casino and spent the next few hours having some gambling fun!
Actually my parents and Danny gambled, while I walked around the gigantic casino with the girls hitting up all the shops and listening to the band play music and enjoying some ice cream! We had fun there and then headed back to my parents!
We got home at about 1am and all crashed out!
Sunday morning I woke up to my mom making coffee and putting away eggs she had collected from the coup! Issy woke up shortly after me and then spent her morning with Grandpa Matt collecting fruit from teh gardens to take home to her Limon grandparents!!
It was so cute watching her cuase she was in cloud 9...she was super happy! She loved the farm!!
She filled her baskets over and over and them came in to wash the fruit! I gave up and came back in...but Issy was steady picking!
Issy had collected peaches, apples, tomatoes, peppers, figs, grapes, "Mexican pickles" and pears! She was feeling all kinds of farmy! LOL
Once everyone was up and running my mom made us breakfast and we decided to drive into Jewitt to check out the flea market. We bought a couple things, but within about 30 minutes we were all drenched in sweat and feeling sick...so we headed back home!! It was too hot!!!!
My dad took us back through some farm roads that were beautiful..I made him stop so I could get some pictures of the girls...and I loved them...
We got back to the house and relaxed and dad made us a "Parillada" for lunch! Danny and I were laughing cause he said that word about 40 times!! LOL
For as much as we laughed at him...I take it back...cause it was delicious! That little old man can throw down some parillada! LOL
It was late afternoon, so we let the kids go take a few rides on the gator with grandpa and then loaded up to head home!
We drove home in peace and safety. We relaxed and unloaded the car...watched some tv, heated up some left overs for dinner and called it a night!
Our weekend was overall pretty darn fantastic!!!! But back to work! Have a good week!!
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