Tournament Trip to Lincoln

This past weekend we traveled to Lincoln, NE with Jake’s girl’s teams to kick-off the winter season of tournament play. During the winter months, Jake only has his 3rd through 8th grade teams for practice and weekend tournaments since the high school kids are busy with their school teams. We travel a few weekends a month with the younger teams…mostly the tournaments are held in Iowa or in the Midwest. I am sure you can imagine how excited JJ was to be getting to go to a hotel again! He kept saying all weekend, “I’m having a fun day!”

The first item on the agenda once we made it to the hotel was to go swimming! Here is the tournament crew off to the pool:

(lil J.J., Nyla, Jayla, big JJ)

Can you tell they are getting impatient with my picture-taking already?

Jayla is quite the swimmer!

A few months ago, JJ was afraid to jump in, but not now! Watch this....

Jayla's new thing is that she LOVES ELMO! This comes in handy when I need to get ready in the morning!

Nyla brought her markers to the games, so they did a lot of coloring!

JJ and I tried to get some snuggling in...

That was until Jayla got jealous and tried with all her might to push JJ off my lap! Coach Seay got a picture from the bench because he had turned around to see what was going on since Jayla was screaming "Mine!"

It's a good thing Daddy had a free lap in between games!

And, of course Jayla had to chat with the girls in between games!

And, she even snuck in some time to help Stacy check her blog back at the hotel.

Coach Seay worked on some dribbling drills with Nyla and JJ, with a few distractions as you'll see in the video!

And the trip was topped off with a GLORIOUS double dip of rainbow sherbet ice cream from Baskin Robbins...it doesn't get any better than that!