NSC - Season Ticket Holders Event

We have had season tickets for Nashville Soccer Club for 3 years and have also bought them for this coming season.  In 2019, the team had an awesome event for season ticket holders where we got to hang out with all the players for a couple of hours at the Sounds stadium where NSC plays.  The event was back in early October and it was a perfect evening.  Free food, free drinks (including beer), autographs, and playing games with the players was pretty awesome.

Carter playing table tennis again Alan Winn.

Rylan was very excited to meet his favorite player (Daniel Rios) and have him sign his hat.

The boys with Bradley Bourgeois & Bolu Akinyode.

The boys with Ken Tribbett & Jimmy Ockford.

The boys then proceeded to play 9 holes of mini golf with these guys.  How cool?!?!?  Gray always cheered for "Jimmy" at all the soccer games after this :)

Next the big boys played basketball with some other players.

And more table tennis.  Carter with Forrest Lasso and Rylan with Danny Vitello.

Meanwhile, Gray got to meet has favorite player, Ropapa Mensah!

The players also took turns sitting down to sign autographs.  The boys all brought mini NSC soccer balls and we also had a poster with all the players pictures on it signed.

The players weren't supposed to take pictures during the signing but Alan Winn asked the boys to step out to take a picture with him :)

The boys with Michael Reed (who sadly missed the second half of the season when his ankle was broken during an ugly tackle in a game).

The boys with Carter's favorite player, goalie Matt Pickens (who is pretty awesome!).

And a group picture with Daniel Rios.

NSC is becoming a MLS team this coming season and only a couple of players from this team will be on the roster.  We are sad that we won't be seeing these guys play regularly anymore, but we are excited to see the next caliber of soccer!

Elf on the Shelf 2019

Our elf seemed came with a little attitude this year!  There were many times it felt like he said, "If you can't beat them, join them!".  You'll see what I mean ...

December 1st

Mr. Elf arrived and brought the boys an advent calendar.  This year was a Playmobil hockey one.

December 2nd

This is what I meant ...

December 3rd

December 4th

The battle between Mr. Elf and Batman begins ...

December 5th

December 6th

December 7th

I threaten the boys with having to share a shirt if they keep fighting.  It looks like it works!

December 8th

December 9th

Sometimes Mr. Elf is just mean!

December 10th

We got a little snow this day, but Mr. Elf was hoping for way more!

December 11th

The boys finally got tree skirts for the Christmas trees in their rooms!

December 12th

Rylan had a great indoor soccer game the night before and Mr. Elf must have heard us talking about!

December 13th

Mr. Elf decorated the boys' bathroom mirror.

December 14th

There was a Star Wars event on Fortnite this day.  Mr. Elf must have heard Rylan talking about it the day before and asked to participate!

December 15th

December 16th

We had gone to the Vanderbilt basketball game the night before and someone behind us caught a parachuting polar bear and gave it to Gray.  Mr. Elf must have wanted to try out the parachute and crashed into our Christmas tree!

December 17th

December 18th

December 19th

December 20th

December 21st

Again, if you can't beat them, join them!

December 22nd

We had given the boys a bunch of Fortnite characters I'd found on sale the day before and they must have started fighting Mr. Elf overnight.

December 23rd

December 24th

See you next year, Mr. Elf!

Winter Break Pictures

We have been really lazy this winter break but have been trying to get out to do something each day.  There has been a lot of disc golf and geocaching but that's not it.

We've been to the Adventure Science Center ...

And did our annual visit to Opryland on Christmas Eve ...

Today we went to Topgolf and then walked around 12 South to find some geocaches and see some murals.

1st Day of School 2019

I never posted this one ...

August 9, 2019

Carter - 5th Grade

Rylan - 3rd Grade

Gray - Pre-K

Geocaching

We had a stretch of really warm and dry days this winter break.  We tried to get outside as much as possible and enjoy it before it got cold again so we did a few rounds of disc golf and some geocaching.  On Friday we tried out a new course at Two Rivers Park in Nashville and then did a few caches near the bridge over the Cumberland afterwards.

Some murals on the tunnel under the highway ...

The sunset was beautiful that evening!

We also found one of our favorite caches hidden in the bridge.  We've hidden a few but none have been creative so far.

Gray - Soccer

Gray is playing his first season of soccer with the Y.  He is on a U6 boys team and Brian is coaching.  The kids play 4v4 but somehow we only ended up with 5 kids on our roster (most have at least 8).  We have 2 kids that have played one season before and 3 (including Gray) that have never played before.  Because of how early they start the kids now, this is the 5th season for some of the other kids in the league.  And since the teams are formed based on parent requests, the teams are very lopsided.  At this point we are lucky to even have 4 show up for a game on Saturday.  We've had some games we've been blown out, one that was even, and one we blew out the other team.

This past Saturday we only had 3 players.  The other team was good enough to give us 2 of their players so that we good have an enjoyable game.  The other team provided us with some aggressive players and I think that motivated Gray to get more involved (as well as the promise of a new Paw Patrol toy).  Gray tends to watch a little more during games.  He's got some good skills when alone with the ball but doesn't love getting in the middle of the bunch when several people are just kicking at anything they can.

I got a few videos of Gray on Saturday, including one where he almost scored and one in which he was one of three that fell and pushed the ball into the goal :)