Lil' Daisies Soccer Game

Callie also had a soccer game this past Saturday. Unfortunately, they lost their first game of the season. The final score was 2-1. Here is a video of Callie....

'Lil Mavs Beat the Big Girl Team

Last Saturday's game was an exciting one. Some of the parents compared it to the Giants beating the Patriots in this years Super Bowl. The girls played the team with the 10 year old and did a great job on defense. The girls did a great job trying to pass the ball and trying to make many baskets. Maya had two breakaways and had great speed to beat everyone to the other side of the court to score two baskets. In between her baskets, the other team managed to get ahead of us with the 10 year old making a three pointer. So now the score was 7-4. Callie was able to get the ball and make a basket making the score 7-6. All of the parents were so excited in the stands. The girls managed to keep the other team from making any additional baskets and in the last few minutes of the game, Maya broke away again and made a basket to bring the score to 8-7, which was all they needed to win the game. The parents really went crazy this time. It sounded like the girls had just won a championship game! Here is a video highlight from the game of Maya making the final basket...

'Lil Mavs and Hot Shotz Tie

It wasn't a win today and it wasn't a loss. Callie was the star player today making 8 of the 10 points. Right after tip off, Callie took the ball and made the first basket. Then about 30 seconds later, she made another basket. The other team should have been scared at that point, but then their baskets started to creep up on us. Towards the end of the game, the other team looked like they were going to win, but then Callie saved the day and made a basket to tie the game during the last 30 seconds.



Here is a video of Callie's two baskets at the beginning of the game...

'Lil Mavs Win!

The picture says it all.

Last Saturday, the 'Lil Mavs won their second game. All of the girls did great. They are doing much better defensively and improving on rebounds. There are three games left in the season. Hopefully the team will be able beat the teams with the bigger girls! haha

Here is a new picture of the team...

Callie's Baptism

Sunday was Callie's Baptism! When she was picked up at school on Friday, she couldn't stop talking about her big weekend. She had expressed her excitement at school to her classmates and teachers and continued to tell everyone throughout the weekend. A lot of family came to our church on Sunday to support her as she expressed to the church family that she has accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and desires to live her live according to God's word. Kevin was able to Baptize Callie, which was very special.

After the Baptism we headed up to Spaghetti Warehouse at West End in Dallas. We had a lrage group there and everyone enjoyed their time together. Callie's friend Grace was able to come and join us as well. We were happy to have Kevin's parents and brother Steve's family as well. Here is a picture of the Abbott's that attended. We sure did miss Kelly, Kelly and Katy who are stationed in Germany!

Here is the video of Callie's Baptism. It was hard to tell when Kevin would begin since we were in the lobby and it was hard to hear where they were in the service.

A Day in Waxahachie and Ft Worth

This past Saturday, we headed out to Waxahachie with Kevin's parents while Callie went to a birthday party. We decided to go out to lunch and found a cute restaurant call The Dove's Nest. It was in a large building that included antiques in the front and then a tea room in the back. The food was wonderful and I tried their famous Orange Spice Iced Tea. It was pretty good. After lunch, we walked around the square and found that they were having a Mardi Gras parade. It was pretty fun and a beautiful day to spend outside.

After we picked Callie up from the party, we continued our adventure and went to Pappasito's Mexican restaurant on our way to Ft Worth. After dinner we made our way to Ft Worth to try and go to the rodeo. However, the tickets were sold out and we missed out on that. But, we were able to walk around and see some of the vendors. They had Elsie the cow and her calf there. Mindy thought it would be cute to take a picture with the calf. Little did she know that the calf would try to eat her hair! haha

'Lil Mavs Lose Again :(

Well, it was a loss again. But the girls did a great job. At the first tip off, Courtney made a basket (see video below). The girls are doing much better defensively and only lost 8-6. Callie had some nice assists and had the ball at the last 10 seconds of the game. She tried her hardest to get that ball into the basket, but then the buzzer sounded.