Last weekend started a very busy few days for us! Tara and Sydney got to our house sometime after we went to bed Friday night and Tara and I got up Saturday morning to meet Terri, Taylor, and Jordan and David, Autumn, and Danika for breakfast at Cracker Barrel. We left Syd with Brad while we were gone and evidently she goes berserk when Tara isn't around. So that was a LONG couple of hours for Brad. Normally, I would never entertain the idea of Sydney staying at our house but when we were at Tara's last month and I saw how old she looked and when I think about how much Tara and Lacy love her, I just had a momentary lapse in judgment found a soft spot in my heart. I was mostly worried about what Spatz would think of her but she didn't really mind her at all. (Sidenote-Tara tried to make up for how Sydney acted by letting Spatz sleep with her one night when we were gone....she had Syd on one side and Spatz on the other. Bless her heart.)
After breakfast, Rusty and Jennifer picked us up to go to the races in Hot Springs. It was really crowded but lots of fun.
And it was a beautiful day!
A couple of festive horses in their St. Patrick's Day green.
I usually win a few times when we go but I didn't win at all this time. I think it was too crowded for me to concentrate on which horse to put my $2 on!
We had dinner back in Little Rock with Rusty and Jennifer and Tara, David, and Autumn. After dinner Rusty and Jennifer went back to their hotel and the rest of us went to Big Whiskey and had a really good time. It was so crowded downtown because of St. Patrick's Day but we found a table in the back and were able to hear each other. I don't know David and Autumn all that well but they were hilarious! They have a two-month old baby so I think they were just happy to be out and didn't care that it was with their sister/sister-in-law and her old friends!
Sunday morning I went to church and then hurried back home to get ready for Brad and me to go to Mountain Home for a few days.
On Monday, Tara and I played golf at Cooper's Hawk in Melbourne. I have been looking forward to this for weeks! It was SUPER windy but other than that the weather was perfect and by about 3:00 I think we were the only ones on the course! We had the best time! I played way better than I thought I would (since I always scramble with Brad) and we laughed so hard we almost cried a time or two. Or three.
I love this old barn!
Tara keeps score when she plays but I always trust Brad to keep score so I never really pay attention to how many times I hit the ball. I'm not very competitive so I really just couldn't make myself keep score. We ended up playing most of the holes by ourselves but a few we scrambled on. And a few I just picked my ball up after maybe 2 shots. I figure we were out there to have fun so why stress about the score. Maybe I'll ask Brad to let me try to keep score the next time we play so I could start to get into the habit. Since I wouldn't have to go so high on most holes (I say 'most' because I did get a legit bogey on one hole and we got two pars!).
I was so proud of these two shots! My first shot is the one at the bottom of the picture. It was with an 8 iron. The shot on the right is with my 9 iron. The tee box is right next to that little building and completely across water. For me to get not one, but two tee shots on the green on this hole is awesome!
Tara lining up her putt. How's that working for you, Tara?? :)
We got par on this hole! Maybe lining up really worked!
This shot proved to be a little dangerous. When I got up there to hit, I hit that tree dead in the middle and before I knew what had happened, it was whizzing past me at about a million miles an hour. Tara was laughing so hard I thought she would lose her breath before I even realized what had happened!
We got another par on this one! We used my tee shot but we clearly DIDN'T use my putt. Seriously. WHERE am I aimed?? I wish Tara would have politely mentioned that the hole is where that white flag is.
The restaurant was closed but luckily Tara knew a guy that worked there and he offered to make us a sandwich. Which was way better than what we could have gotten from the restaurant!
We didn't get to play the back nine because they were aerating those greens so we had to play the front twice. This barn is on the back and I've always liked how the cart path goes through it.
I wish Tara and I lived closer together so we cold play more often! And I hope Brad and I can get back to Cooper's Hawk to play soon. I had forgotten how much I liked it! And its one of Brad's favorites too.
