After realizing a few weeks ago that we would had a free Saturday in March due to Ella having a gymnastics meet on Friday and no practice on Saturday, I bought tickets for our family to go skoarding to White Pass together. However, a few days ago, I received an email from the girls' theater announcing that Ella had a last-minute, mandatory, Annie rehearsal scheduled for the same Saturday. As frustrating as this was to find out about this rehearsal last minute, I was grateful that Lia opted to stay home (to get homework done and be ready for her Mean Girls callbacks the next day), so that she could drive Ella to and from her rehearsal. So, I sadly cancelled Lia's and Ella's tickets, and sent Emmett home with my mom yesterday, so that Ron and I could still go up to the mountain with Logan. It was a fun and unusual day to have Logan all to ourselves. We got up early again and left by 6 a.m. to get to the mountain in time to find parking close to the resort. We then spent the morning and afternoon skoarding around White Pass with Logan. Logan has gotten to such a proficient level at snowboarding, that it really is so fun and pleasant to skoard on the top of the mountain with him. It was snowy and windy most of the day, so like last time, I was actually grateful that we didn't have Ella with us as she struggles so much with skiing all day long in cold weather. Overall, it was a nice day and I am so grateful for the chance that we had to have some one-on-one time with one of our middle children who rarely gets this kind of time and attention!
In The Hartland
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Skoarding Day with Logan
Friday, March 8, 2024
Update on Ella's Gymnastics Meet Season
Since this school year has been so incredibly busy, I decided at the beginning of Ella's gymnastics meet season to not create a post after each of her meets. As a result, I decided to do a quick recap of the four meets that she has competed in since her first one in Bremerton on January 19th. Since then, Ella has competed in the following meets and received the following scores:
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Love and Laughter Musical Review
Since Ella and Lia are still part of the Matilda company cast with NWTL until May, they were required to participate in their second, musical review this weekend. Although it is the beginning of March, it was a Valentine's themed review, titled "Love and Laughter." Like the Holiday Jukebox in December, the company kids performed in only a handful of numbers. Both girls performed in an all-group, opening and closing number. In addition, Ella sang a darling version of "The Ladies Who Lunch" with three other young girls while Lia sang "Forget about the Boy" while dancing and tapping (for the very first time) with the older girls. The entire group finished off with the appropriate, closing number of "Fools Rush in." Overall, it was a darling evening and I thoroughly enjoyed watching my two girls perform while singing these classic songs with the other company members.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Logan's Last Basketball Game
Logan wrapped up his 6th grade basketball season with his last game today. Although this is not Logan's favorite sport, he was a trooper and willingly went to his practices and played in most of his games the past 3.5 months. Although Logan didn't make a basket, he improved quite a bit from last year and hustled as much as a he could and handled the ball several times during each game. He enjoyed being on the same team with three of his friends from school (Bennett, Benton, and Grayson) and being coached by Bennett's dad, Ben, who Logan knows very well from previous soccer and basketball seasons. Although Logan will officially be transitioning to running next school year with cross country in the fall (through a running club since it isn't offered at school for boys) and track in the spring with his school, I am grateful for all of these many winters that basketball has gotten Logan out of the house and moving around on the court.