Father's Day 2026 - Toca Social

The girls left for camp this week, so we decided to surprise Bryan & celebrate Father's Day early. He had been traveling for business last week & he didn't fly home until Saturday morning so when he got home, we surprised him with brunch. His favorite of course - cinnamon rolls & bacon! Last year we spent the day together & went to Pop Stroke so this year we decided to try somewhere new, which happens to be very relevant to what is going on in the world right now:

Have you ever heard of it?! It is a bar/restaurant/game experience, kind of like Top Golf, but for soccer instead. I know both of the girls like soccer & I figured they would be playing all of the world cup games & they were. Everyone has soccer fever at the moment!

We got set up at our booth upstairs & they ordered fun mocktails & can nachos to snack on:

Then we got to work! You upload your picture on the computer & build your profile. You even get to choose beginner, intermediate or hard. They have several games to play so we took our time working through them:

Basically, you kick the ball at the screen & you score points for hitting objects. I was horrible at it! Literally, I have never played soccer a day in my life. I have watched a lot of soccer over the past 10 years & I can pass the ball & do a few skills, but I haven't really kicked the ball & it hurt! Clearly, I was kicking it wrong because my toe was hurting. I may have switched & started picking up the balls & throwing them at the screen instead. Ha! This girl dominated & showed off for all of us:

In fact, she won most of the games. You'll notice Bryan & I didn't even make the board!

As we were walking out, Sophie was so excited because her name was at the top of the leaderboard for one of the games for the whole venue:

Overall, it was a fun afternoon! I really liked the venue - the ambiance, the food & drinks, etc. I would totally go back with friends or with a team, but next time I'll just cheer for everyone else while they play. 

Summer So Far.....

We love the beginning of summer! Some people like to travel right away, but not us. We just got out of school, the weather isn't too hot yet and everyone is excited to be at home swimming, playing and being outside. Plus, our high school has all of their summer camps the first month, so the girls have already been to volleyball, basketball and socer camp:

They even attended vacation bible school at church! I am telling you, the first few weeks have been busy. Sadie took the first semester of summer school online and she has been diligently working hard trying to get ahead before we start traveling soon:

Sophie went to watch the boys play summer ball with her friends:

and they went to Hawaiian Waters one afternoon after camp:

with a sleepover afterwards, of course!

Sadie had a pool party with her small group from church:

We love baking in the summer & treating ourselves to cool treats when it's hot:

and our new NCL year started June 1 so we have been volunteering while we are home too. We love Watermere & have been there several times for bingo & happy hour:

We met several new friends at Feed the City when we volunteered with Sophie's new group:

Finally, their cousins came to visit from Colorado, so we had fun meeting them somewhere new we had never been before:

It is definitely different than I was expecting but the girls still had fun running around & checking it out:

This was my favorite room - it was all neon & blacklight and even my toenails glowed:

Thank you, Sherry, for treating us to a fun afternoon - we are so glad we got to spend extra time with the girls:

See You Later Gator - 7th Grade Here She Comes!

As Sadie's time at Griffin comes to an end, Sophie's is just now starting! I loved having them at school together this year, but you don't get to do as much in 6th grade so I feel like next year is when Sophie will really get to shine! They had their academic awards the last week of school & to our surprise, she got one of the top awards in her grade:

Parents are only invited to the awards ceremony if your child receives an award, so I had a heads up the week before that she was getting something, but we didn't know what. Turns out she won the service award, which they gave to 1 boy & 1 girl in their grade:

A few of her friends received awards also, so that made it even more fun:

Of course she got pictures on the last day of school also:

She left school early because her group of friends had a pool party:

The boys conveniently had their pool party nearby at the same time, so they all met up:

We also had a first for Sophie - one of the parent's threw a co-ed boy/girl pool party. Apparently, they started out separately & by the end of the night, they were finally co-mingling. Ha!

I have a feeling 7th grade will be a whole new world for this crew: