Second Annual Ed Soladay Golf Tribute

Welcome to the 

Second Annual Ed Soladay Golf Tribute!

We had an amazing turn out Monday 

and doubled the amount of money raised for the charity this year.

Hold on for picture overload.

 I love the feeling of pulling into the club parking lot and seeing all the carts ready to go.

It really is surreal.

If you look in the upper right hand corner at the flagpole,

you can see the flag the hospital flew the day Ed's organs were donated.

It meant a lot to our family that the club flew it the day of the tournament.

We had some incredible sponsors this year.

Couldn't do the tournament without them!

My parents sponsored the boxed lunches for all the players.

All of our par 3's had prizes thanks to our sponsors!

This sponsor played golf every Saturday morning in the men's group with Ed.

Registration went off without a hitch!

This year we had a paparazzi cart that 2 girls,

daughters of one of Carol's friends,

drove around and took all the pictures.

Checking in to cover last minute details for we begin!

The announcement was made for all players to make their way to their cart.

My handsome husband said a few words.

And head to his cart with my brother.

Since it was a shotgun start,

everyone was lead to their first hole.

And the tournament began!

Carol played with one of the golf pros

and 2 of Ed and Carol's dear friends from New York.

I loved that so many women played!

By next summer I WILL be a golfer as Ryan and I are officially members now!

More on that another time.

Everyone had a great time.

These ladies are part of Carol's Thursday morning group.

Such wonderful women.

The 2 women on the right are from my girl's poker night group.

The First Tee set up on the 9th hole,

Gentle Creek's signature hole.

It really is beautiful.

They brought the same kids out from last year, and they were awesome.

With a donation, players could have them either drive the ball or putt for them.

It was a lot of fun.

Once tournament play was done,

everyone went back to the clubhouse for dinner, awards and live music.

Ryan's group was only 4 over the first place team!

While everyone ate,

Ryan and I made sure the awards and raffle prizes were ready to go.

Ryan played MC.

I am so blessed to be married to such an incredible man.

Award time is always a blast.

One of the guys Ryan used to work with won the iPad for closest to the pin.

One of our big sponsors had the winning raffle ticket 3 times.

She and her husband even ended up winning the obligatory flat screen television!

My beautiful mother

It was a great day...

We love you, Ed...

People stayed on the patio until 10:00 PM.

We had such a great time.

Just like last year,

Ryan and I collapsed in bed

at the end of the day exhausted but happy. 

We spent the day with family and friends

celebrating the life of a wonderful man.

It's bittersweet.

We love and miss you every day, Ed.

More Stuff

Hello, friends!

Everything is busy as usual.

Isn't that just the way it is?!

I started this post almost 2 weeks ago
but haven't had the time...or energy to finish it.
A lot has taken place over the past 2 weeks, so hold on for the deets.
Just act interested.

* Ryan and I had an absolute blast at Winstar a couple of weekends ago.

The Zac Brown Band was awesome.
Love this man!
Seriously.
A man that makes you laugh is a keeper.

* This whole new Blogger format is completely throwing me off.

Am I the only one?

I don't like change.

* My hubby is getting in shape.

Let me digress.

A few months ago he was recruited by a company to

develop and run their small business services,

and Ryan was thrilled as there is no travel involved (yay!),

it's back in the technology industry,

the possibilities for where this position will take him are endless,

and the company itself is incredible.

Win. Win. Win. And Win.

I am so proud of him.

The company headquarters is centered around being "green" and healthy.

Much of the building is powered by solar panels,

when food is brought in, you can expect to see healthy choices,

and the coolest part is the full gym located in the center of the building.

The owner hired a personal trainer to come in every day

during lunch for the employees.

Ryan is working out 5 days a week now.

He's down to like 6% body fat.

Really?

Totally unfair.

He's one handsome man.

* Lots going on here in the big "P".

Five students at the high school, 4 of which are out of district transfers, were arrested

last Monday for some pretty serious allegations.

I remember something extremely similar taking

place between students at the high school

I taught at in another district,

but because a professional athlete's son was involved,

it made national news.

Nice.

It has definitely opened the door to some intense conversations with our oldest.

High school is very different than it was when Ryan and I were young.

Teenagers are over exposed to so much with the Internet and the media.

It's scary.

* Speaking of high school,

my 20 year reunion is next month.

20 years.

All that means is I'm getting old.

* We took the boys to a crawfish boil

in the neighborhood over Mother's day weekend.

They had never eaten crawfish before

but caught on very quickly!

Preston learned that it takes lots of concentration.

 LOTS.

 The next day was Mother's day, so we spent the day with my family.

Ryan and my brother joined the cousins for basketball.

 Carter spent most of his time pushing my niece on the swing.

The boys love her!

 Sweet Carter

 Our family...minus Trysten....we missed you, buddy!

* We are building a HUGE playground here in Prosper called

Windmill Playground,

and I say "we" because over 1,000 people have volunteered to help build it.

Last week was the first week of construction,

and all the PISD art teachers spent one day painting different

decorative pieces for the playground.

I was asked to make a sign for an area of the park

dedicated to a little girl who died of cancer.

Her name was Piper.

It was truly honored because even though I didn't know the little girl,

I am a mother, and I couldn't imagine what it must be like to lose your child.

I can't wait to see it when the playground is complete.

You like?

* This past weekend,
my boys were at their dad's, but Trysten was with us.
He still is with us,
and it has been so nice to have more time with him, to just sit and talk with him.
It was wonderful to see Ryan and Trysten spend some good father-son time
together while my boys were away.
Trysten went to work with Ryan on Friday and even worked out with him.
Everyone at Ryan's office loved T (of course) and called him Ryan's mini-me.
Insert huge smile on Ryan's face.
From there, they went to the movies, Dave N Busters
and finally I joined them for the Roughriders game.

On Saturday,
Ryan and Trysten played golf with Carol.
Trysten is such a natural.
We really hope he keeps it up.
The Soladays!

Speaking of golf,

only 12 more days until:

We miss you, Ed...

* This has been a great week.

Lots of family time.

Summer just on the horizon.

Our summer officially starts Friday at the Soladay house!

Cannot wait!

The kids can't either.

They've been a little wild lately.

For example:

* I leave you with one more picture.

I bought the boys some of those fake moustaches,

and this was the result:

Awesome.

Have a great rest of the week, friends!!

Stuff

Hello, friends!

Here's what's going on lately:

  

* Trysten and Carter made movies all.weekend.long.

I found this one on my phone before I made them switch to T's iPod.

{I do realize this might not be as entertaining to you as it is to me,

so feel free to skip viewing it.}

I need to figure out how to get the movies off his iPod.

A couple of them really are funny.

Trysten is a character.

I love those boys.

* I spent a lot of time over the weekend working on things for my art classroom for next year.

I made some posters for different artist studies.

Five down.

Twenty to go.

That's definitely a summer project.

 And some art work for the art room

I am seriously excited about my new venture and

can't wait to show y'all my art room when construction is complete!

* Ryan and I are headed to Winstar this weekend

for:

So ready for a weekend getaway.

Ryan bought 2 extra seats to sell,

so if you know anyone who wants to go on Saturday night,

he's selling them for $200 a piece, row A10 center stage.

* It's teacher appreciation week which means nonstop food.

Well, actually today we had food and a 15 minute chair

massage paid for by our PTO.

They are they best.

They give their time endlessly.

Tomorrow we're having a baked potato bar with all the trimmings.

Yum.

Bad timing since I have to wear a bathing suit for the first time this weekend.

Today the kids wrote their teachers notes of appreciation,

and I really wasn't expecting any since I'm just the long term sub for a third grade class while their teacher is out on maternity leave..

I was surprised and thrilled when the kids put them on my desk this morning.

I have the best job ever.

* I cannot believe we have only 17 days of school left.

I can smell the sunscreen already.

It's the best smell ever.

It means freedom.

It means no alarm in the morning.

It means staying up late, spontaneous family outings and weekend getaways with my hubby.

It means days by the pool and nights on the patio.

Love it.

Here's to 17 more school days 'til summer!

Have a great rest of your week!