Underclassmen Awards Ceremony for Daniel and Jonny

We are so proud of Daniel and Jonny! They have worked so hard and I love seeing that rewarded for them.

Great job, boys! We love you and we are so proud of you!

Andrew's Track Meet: Queen Creek High School

Andrew ran a great race today and got a personal record! He won his heat and he was so proud of himself and we were proud of him, too! 

The coaches have a tradition that when you PR, you get a pickle so we did that and got a cute picture. 

Then we took him to lunch at Olive Garden.

Great job, son!

Andrew's Track Meet: Hohokam Invite at Westwood High School

Andrew ran a great race at the Hohokam Track Invite at Westwood High School! 

After the race, I took him to the new Andretti Indoor Karting. Daniel and Jonny didn't sound excited about it, but Andrew really wanted to try it out and it was so cool! He had so much fun speeding through the course!

International State of the State

Michael and I went to the International State of the State event at the Phoenix Art Museum tonight. Mike Patterson invited us and it was a really cool event. There were multiple mayors there. I shook the hand of the mayor of Scottsdale and I sat next to the mayor of Paradise Valley. 

It was cool to hear from Governor Katie Hobbs. 

They had some cool exhibits, like this Barbie one. Most of it was blocked off, unfortunately.

Promposal Answer

Andrew invited Natalie to prom, and this was her way of saying, "Yes!"

Andrew's Track Meet: Rattler Booster at North Canyon HS

March 16, Saturday

I got ready for the day and I left for Andrew's track meet at about 11:30 AM. Andrew said his event would be between 1 and 2 PM and it was closer to 3 PM but that's OK. It's almost an hour drive to get to North Canyon High School. He was in the first heat of his 300 M hurdles and he did amazing! It's hard for me to see who is who from the other side but as soon as he went around the curve, I could see that he was doing well and I was so proud of him. He got a personal record. I think his best score so far was 50.97 and today he got a 50.38. He kind of passed out on the field afterwards for a little bit but he was also pumping his fist in the air and I know it was because he was proud of himself for beating his own record. It was awesome! When he got up, he looked up at me from the field and I waved to him like crazy and he saw me in the crowd and we both gave each other a thumbs up. That was a fun moment. 

We checked out with his coach and went to go get a bite to eat. He wanted to go back to that Comix restaurant. They brought us our food pretty quickly. They were supposed to bring us an appetizer of a pretzel but they brought everything at once and the pretzel was hard as a rock so I told the waitress that and they took it off the bill. Our food was actually quite good otherwise. 

I told Andrew there was a cookie shop I wanted to try so we stopped there. It's called Urban Cookies bake shop. There's another location in Phoenix and I didn't know they had this one right off the 101 that's way more convenient and I'd always wanted to try it. We got a few treats and they were delicious. We stopped by the school so Andrew could get his car. He went to get the pizza for me and I had to get some gas, cash, and the mail. I did some chores on the computer and the boys played their video games for a while. Then Andrew and Daniel watched Young Sheldon with me. It was about that time that Michael came home. He had driven home from Anaheim today. Michael, Andrew, and I all watched Crocodile Dundee together. I'm so proud of Andrew and so glad I could be there at his meet. He has worked hard and improved so much!

Expo West

March 14, Thursday

I flew into Orange County Airport last night. Michael left a little before 8:30 AM for a meeting. I walked to the Anaheim Convention Center and picked up my badge. At the booth, they were serving mocktails made with strawberry kiwi Water Drops. 

Jorge came over and I spent quite a bit of time talking to him. He wanted me to do a video so we did a couple videos and he put them on his Instagram and tagged me and showed me how to put them on my Instagram story. 

Later, Michael and I walked around a bit. Michael had some more meetings. I stood by the Water Drops we were giving out for free and talked to some people. Michael and I left around 5:30 PM and headed back to the hotel. We walked over to the Mexican place and got a ton of food and came back to the room to eat it which was perfect. It was a nice day.

We saw this cute booth as we were walking around outside the Convention Center.

March 15, Friday

Michael and I slept in and we made it to the convention center just before 10 AM. I spent the next three hours talking to people about our Water Drops and other products. Jorge came by again and we took a couple more pictures. Michael had a couple of meetings. We served some alcohol-free Mojitos made with mint, lime, and our coconut Sweet Drops. 

We also went to the hot products building but I didn't have a lot of time because I still needed to go to Downtown Disney. I said goodbye to Michael, went upstairs to try some cookie dough, and then walked over to Downtown Disney. I talked to Emily on the phone while I walked. I stopped at Marceline's Confectionery and got about six bags of English toffee, some peanut clusters, churro toffee, and peanut butter bars for Michael. It was pretty heavy to carry all that stuff to the hotel. I had to walk to the other side where the Disneyland entrance is on Harbor Boulevard. It was kind of sad walking past Disneyland and California Adventure without being able to go in. 

By the time I got to the hotel, it was after 3 PM and my intention had been to leave the hotel and be all packed by 3 PM but it worked out fine. I got into my Uber around 3:45 PM or so. I got to the airport a little bit after 4 PM, got through security, and had plenty of time before the plane started boarding. My original flight was for 4:20 PM but I had found out this morning that it was delayed till 5:05 PM. They actually left before 5:05 PM which is weird. This is why you can never be cutting it close for a flight but I got lucky today. The boys did great while we were gone and they had checked off all the things on the instructions so I appreciate that. It was a quick trip, but I'm glad I was able to go.