ACC Tourney in Charleston

The ACC tournament for women's soccer was held in Charleston, SC again this year. While it is a little inconvenient to travel so far, we love Charleston and have amazing friends who live there and always put us up! Score!

We were so excited to see Beth and Sean and stay for a weekend visit!

The semi-final game was against NC State. One of my church friends from growing up (and a State fan) also lives in the area and joined us for the game. His daughter's were well trained and were all decked out in red cheering loudly for the Wolf Pack. Luckily the Tar Heels prevailed with a 1-0 victory.

On Saturday we spent the morning browsing the Charleston farmer's market. We stumbled upon some break dancers and had fun watching them do their thang!

At one point they need some volunteers. David and Sean obliged while Beth kept reminding the dancers that those two were lawyers so they better be careful!

One of the dancers do a flying flip over 9 people! It was super impressive and luckily no one got injured.

After the show we headed over to see the water at the Battery Park. 

Beth and I are cracking up at how long it takes David to take a picture. 

But for real, he takes for ever!

Finley and Sean enjoyed talking about the cannons and what they were used for.

After lunch we headed to the beach for some exploring and pick up soccer. 

We found all sorts of wildlife including this awesome sand dollar. 

The water was super cold, but luckily the air was pretty warm.

These two crazies thought it would be a good idea to test the water. Well what really happened was Sean decided to go for a dip, and David could not be out done, so he went in too! LOL!

The next morning we got our game faces on for the Championship game.

We brought a picnic lunch to a fun park and then headed over to the stadium. 

We ended up playing Duke in the finals. 

Fortunately, I had my lucky shirt on.

We ended up winning 1 - 0! Go Heels! 

Here's our excited faces after the win!

This was the first time since 2009 that the Tar Heels had won the ACC tournament and the 21st ACC Championship win for my dad. Way to go pops!

We were so excited to snag the ACC title again! My dad's team ended up losing in the sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament which was a bummer, but having this ACC Championship title in our back pocket made the season feel like a success. Go Heels!

Halloween 2017

It seemed like it took Finley a long time to pick out his Halloween costume this year. First he wanted to be a Thundermen character, then a character from Henry Danger, but he finally settled on being a Ghostbuster! Now this was a costume I could get behind!

It was pretty easy to find and order Finley's costume online. I also found a cheap Ghostbuster's shirt for David to wear. 

Finley told me that I was going to be the librarian ghost from the very first Ghostbuster movie. Do you remember that scene? If not, you can find it here. It was the perfect character for me! LOL. 

Our ward hosted an annual Trunk or Treat and Chili cook off. The Cub Scout troop that Finley is a part of was in charge of carnival games for the young primary children. 

We had pumpkin bowling (a station that Finley and Danny were in charge of), a bean bag toss game, and a pin the spider on the web game. 

After dinner and the carnival it was time to Trunk or Treat. By good fortune a friend of a friend had this amazing Stay Puft Marshmallow costume that they had worn a few years ago on Halloween. We were lucky enough to borrow it and David was such a good sport and wore it! 

Now we really look the part!

On Halloween night we finally got around to carving our pumpkins. Finley picked out two very challenging Ghostbuster themed pictures for us to carve. 

They weren't easy, and mine ended up being held together by some toothpicks, but I think they turned out all right!

Grammie and Abuelo were in town and got to help hand out candy while the Marshmallow man and Finley went door to door. 

David really is such a good sport! It was hard for him to see in the outfit and he kept accidentally bumping into Finley and almost knocking him over! David did get a lot of attention and complements for his fun costume. I feel a little bad that he out shined Finley. 

We had such a fun and festive Halloween! We hope you did too! 

Picking Pumpkins!

Can you tell life has been super busy? I am so behind on my blog posts! About a week before Halloween we finally had an afternoon free to go and pick out pumpkins. 

This year we headed back to the farmer's market to find some good ones. We always pick out two pumpkins to carve and then let Finley pick out the designs. Of course there is always an unofficial competition on Halloween to see whose pumpkin gets more likes or comments :). 

We love stopping by the farmer's market pumpkin house!

Finley thought we should make one ourselves, but I explained to him how many pumpkins it would take and how much money it would cost and that it wasn't really feasible. Even though at this point in time it didn't really feel like fall weather, we were super excited for our fun Halloween traditions! Up next . . . pumpkin carving, trunk or treat, and trick or treating!