Summer is in full bloom and time is already getting away from me. Last Friday was the last day of school for Ash. She's now an official 7th grader - frightening!!!! She spent her first weekend of summer break in a tennis tournament in Southlake. She won her match on Saturday and won 2 of her 3 matches on Sunday to win 2nd place and finally "CHAMPED UP". This means she had the points and a trip to the final round of a tournament to move up to the next level. It is great that she finally achieved this monumental goal. The downside is that she will not have the time at this level to earn the 100 points she'll need to stay when she turns 13 in Sept. She knew this going in but just wanted to be able to say that she did it. Now she can continue playing at her current level of tournaments starting in Sept. but in the higher age bracket. She will have to earn another 64 points at that level and get to a finals in order to "champ up" again.
Last week, the kids both went to Vacation Bible School with my mom. She ran one of the nursery groups so that E could go. You have to be a kindergartener to go to VBS unless a family member is a volunteer. Ash was a Junior Volunteer this year and got to help out with the little kid classes for various activities. They had a blast. Saturday was the church festival and Ash volunteered to work a booth to earn community service hours to put on her NJHS application in the fall. Little did she know that it would be 100 degrees and 100% humidity that day. I felt so bad for her while she roasted in her little booth helping little kids play carnival games. She did it with a smile though and proudly earned her Community Service certificate!
I spent that day at a Scrapbook event in Downtown Dallas for the Police Officers of Dallas. The day of cropping was also a day of fundraising for this worthy charity. I went by myself because my usual group of crop buddies were busy with other things that day. I had a great time since it was hosted by Tammy - the ladybug retreat gal. I did have to take a break in the middle of the day to drive back toward home to go to church and see the kids sing their VBS songs at Mass. Then it was back to Dallas for more cropping. I got 11 pages done in E's book, attended a few really neat craft classes and won a necklace in the raffle at the end of the evening (I wanted the Cricut Jukebox or the cool Tote bag but the necklace is pretty cool).
Also last Friday, I was finally able to pull off an A Phi Dinner Club - 0ur first since Christmas. 6 of my wonderful sisters met me at Uncle Julio's in Grapevine where we sweated on the patio while watching one heck of a lightening storm. We finished eating around 8 and talked until after 10 - I'm sure the folks at the restaurant thought we were never going to leave. It was so great to see everyone and sort of get the excitment rolling about CampAPhi this year!
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