A friendly game...

...of tennis. Emma was aptly dressed and comes from a long line of those who like to look good and have the best gear when playing sports (hi dad :).

Of course, between Carl and I- sports are never that friendly.  Always a bit of competition heating up.

Okay, maybe there wasn't much competition. Carl played in high school and college...he pretty much smoked me.

However, I can talk trash with the best of them (under my breath of course).

 

The girls were only slightly disillusioned with the fact that "real tennis" is much harder than tennis on the Wii.  They both proved to be pretty good.  Look at Hannah's hops!  At least a 10" vertical don't you think?

 

Laurel gave up on us collectively and set off to pursue other forms of athleticism. 

Teaching kids a sport that we can all play together for a really long time is so much more appealing to me than driving everyone around to a different practice for a different sport that they won't play past the age of 18. Tennis (along with golf) is one of those sports that you can enjoy your entire life.  I'm into that you know?