MY OWN LITTLE KARATE KID!!! :)

SO I'VE BEEN MEANING TO WRITE THIS ALL WEEK, BUT I HAVE HAD A CHANCE UNTIL NOW. BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I BRAGGED A LITTLE ABOUT HOW MY BABY GIRL JASMINE DID AT HER FIRST KARATE TOURNAMENT. I WAS SO PROUD OF HER, SHE KICKED ASS. I REALLY SAW HOW COMMITTED SHE IS TO LEARNING HER KARATE. SHE PERFORMED WITH SUCH DETERMINATION. SHE WAS ENTERED INTO 5 EVENTS, STRONGEST PUNCH, STRONGEST KICK, FASTEST FIST, FASTEST KICK, AND THE ESCAPE DRILL. SHE CAME IN 4TH PLACE IN THE FIRST FOUR EVENTS, AND LAST PLACE IN THE 5TH EVENT. I WAS SO PROUD OF HER, SHE GOT A GOLD MEDAL FOR THE 4TH PLACES, AND A SILVER MEDAL FOR THE LAST EVENT. SHE WAS SO EXCITED TO SHOW OFF HER MEDALS TO HER DADDY AND BROTHERS, WHO UNFORTUNATELY DIDN’T GET TO GO WITH US BECAUSE IT WAS DOWN IN TUCSON.
WE TAGGED ALONG WITH A FRIEND FROM HIGH SCHOOL MELISSA, HER SON ANDREW (WHO IS ALSO IN THE SAME KARATE LEAGUE AS JASMINE) AND HER MOTHER. I AM SO GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR ALLOWING US TO TAG ALONG, WITHOUT THERE KINDNESS WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ATTEND. THANK YOU MELISSA AND ANDREW. I HAD SUCH A GOOD TIME AT THE TOURNAMENT ON SUNDAY AS WELL AS SATURDAY, TITAN MISSILE MUSEUM, THEN ON OUR WAY BACK INTO TUCSON WE STOPPED AT THE SAN XAVIER MISSION, IT WAS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH. I GOT TO LIGHT A CANDLE IN HONOR OF MY DAD THERE. THERE WAS SUCH AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF PEACE AT THAT CHURCH, IT WAS A WONDERFUL STOP ON OUR TRIP. I CANT WAIT TO RETURN THERE WITH MY WHOLE FAMILY SOMEDAY SOON.
THE WHOLE TRIP WAS A BLAST, THE KIDS GOT ALONG REALLY WELL. ANDREW DID REALLY GOOD AT THE TOURNAMENT TOO. OVERALL WE HAD TONS OF FUN, AND MY BABY GIRL KICKED ASS I AM SO PROUD OF HER!!!!

I will be posting the pictures from this trip sometime in the next day or so.