All Saints Tournament Champs

Peyton's CYC team won the All Saints tournament.   It was fun walking in that gym, playing the same tournament I did as a kid, playing for Holy Rosary.  Peyton played against Sarah Dempey's daughter in the championship game which was another interesting twist.  I played all my years of Holy Rosary basketball with Sarah and her dad was the assistant coach.  So to sit in the stands with Jack and Sarah on the other side, watching our daughters play the championship game was fun.


Here is Peyton, guarding Sarah's daughter....

The end of Maddie's KJBL

Maddie's KJBL team finished their last season game while I was gone with Peyton in AZ.  The girls had another undefeated season....Maddie had a great time and loves playing with her friends that are a grade above her.  She has a lot of friends a year older than her in school, so it is super fun that they ask her to play so she can play with them!

Missing Each Other

Thing they missed each other while we were gone to AZ?  We got in super late so the dogs were already asleep....but this was their greeting in the morning!!

SLSG Elite takes on Phoenix

Peyton got asked to move up to the Elite team for the rest of the spring season.  She was super nervous about moving up, because Peyton gets extremely nervous about anything "new".  I couldn't really understand her nervousness, as she knows most of the girls.  She's played with several of them in the past, AND one of them is one of her best friend from school.  But, she went to the first practices in tears and scared, and by the end of the first few practices she was loving it.

Her first games with them were in Phoenix, AZ.  The girls played extremely well, extremely physical and fast!  Our last day there we had all day to do "other" things, as we had no soccer games and our flight wasn't until late that night.  We hiked Pinnacle Peak and went to Hole in the Rock Park.  Both of those adventures we had done on spring break the year before, but it was fun to do them again with soccer friends.

We shared a car with the Lorms', and Mr. Lorms quickly figured out that my sense of direction isn't exactly keen, and that his job as the passenger navigator would become very important.  We did fine, I don't think we ever got "lost"....,maybe had to bust a few U-turns, but that was it.

The temperature was FREEZING in AZ!!!  They had record setting temps when we were there....boo!!  We were looking forward to a little warmth in February, but no dice.  It snowed in AZ two days after we got home.  While we were hiking, it actually started sleeting.

We got home about midnight, and off to school Vita and Peyton went the next day......very tired, I'm sure!

Peyton and CYC

Peyton's CYC team off to another good start.  They play hard....really hard.....our hardest games are when we have ticky tacky refs.  If they call a lot of fouls, our basketball team full of soccer players, get into a little foul trouble...

Mike and Peyton continue to have a love-hate......at this given moment, it looks like she was actually listening and had her eyes on the clipboard and not in the top of her head.....ha!!

Jack + Chess.....Still going strong

Jack still thoroughly enjoys his Wednesday after school chess club.  It's now chess season, and he went to his first tournament.  He went 4-0 and his buddy Charlie went 4-0 also.  Jack ended up getting second place somehow, we don't understand the scoring, but he was happy!!

Update on Mom's chess abilities: Yeah, I still don't even know how to set up a chess board!!....but I love that he loves it!!

If you look really hard, Jack is in the back, middle....concentrating hard!!

Maddie's 100th Day of SCHOOL!!!!

It's a big celebration in kindergarten when they have reached their hundredth day of school.  The kids were to make a cape to wear to school that day and decorate it with 100 "things"......Maddie chose big sequins.  She lines every single one of them up and hot glued them on, all by herself!!!!  Anyone surprised that Miss Independent did it all alone?!?!  Yeah, me neither.