Tacos, Tennis, Tots and...the Library

Saturdays are busy with morning chores, family fun time and Tennis Academy.  Up until now Kalen was going to Senior Academy on Saturdays.  But, Gwyneth made it one of her goals earlier this year to test into Juniors at the Los Gatos Tennis Academy.   So not only did she test but her brother and side kick, Reece, tested too.  They were both accepted with flying colors.  More on that below.

Since Junior Academy is from 4pm-6pm, I made dinner early and whipped up some tacos.  We haven't had this meal for a long time.  It was so good.

Most of my family like their tacos pretty plain, just the basics.  Meat(ground turkey), cheese, lettuce and tomato.   But, as you can see I put lots of other options out as well, which is basically for me.

The tacos you see in the picture are homemade.   Well, homemade into the taco shape that is.  Usually you fry corn tortillas but once I did flour and my husband loved it so much, it's all I'm allowed to make now.  But, they are so good, flaky and buttery.

I like tacos.  But I LOVE taco salad.  This is what my dinner looked like.  There are black beans under there,  you just can't see them.  It's chips, black beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, cabbage, avocado and a dollop of Greek yogurt.  With plenty of hot sauce all over it, and a tad bit of my normal salad dressing.  So good.

This is Summer or Tumsy.  She was helping me make the tacos.  See how she dumped out all of the measuring spoons so I would be able to choose the ones I needed more readily.  She's very efficient, I must say.  And so cute.

Shane likes his tacos plain, like the one above.  But, he is only two and eating a taco, so not too shabby.

 

The kids are getting ready to go to Academy and make their marks.

Reece told us he wouldn't go if Gwyneth wasn't going to test also.  We said to him, "well, what are you going to do in other situations when Gwyneth can't be with you?"  He said, "I don't know?"

 He and Gwyneth love each other so much.  They truly are friends.  It's so special to see.

Here are the two friends, sister and brother, and team mates for LIFE!!!!!  That's what I tell them...when they aren't best friends.  Yes, they have their moments, very few of them, but they have them.

After coming home from testing Kirk and Kalen said Reece dominated when they played Gladiator at the Academy.  The game is played by holding your side of the court until someone knocks you out when you can't return their hit.

Kirk said the ten year olds that Reece was beating didn't look so happy.

When the big kids go off to tennis I"m left with the "tots."  Georgia is five, isn't that still considered a toddler. No?  Well, she hasn't started school yet, so until then she's getting grouped with Shane and Summer.

She is creating with her brother Shane and our next door neighbor Marissa.  That was nice, but it didn't last long until they wanted me.....

to play with them.  When the big kids are gone, they automatically turn to mommy to play with them.  So play I did.  Candy Land is the name of the game and it's so cute to listen to them say the same things I did when I played this game as a little girl.

Things like, "mommy I wish we actually lived in a candy land."  To which I replied, "well, if that candy land is a chocolate land then I'm right there with you Georgia."

We managed to squeeze in a trip to the library before taking Kalen to Academy at noon.  This looks like so many books.  But, it's actually one of our "lighter" trips.

It was a great day.   Productive, fun with good food, a pretty perfect day.