New Beginnings

     While Lizzy's schooling is winding down, Teddy's is just starting. I got him all set up for the coming school year. It's the weirdest thing, having my baby going to school, having an empty house during the school day. I'm not sure how to feel about all of this, but he is so ready.

Lizzy got to help with the wrestler's fundraising event.

    Lizzy had an awards night for her GPA. They served dinner in the cafeteria and had the Jazz band perform. It was fun.

    Pi Day! I texted our family and made a billion pies! It was fun. We played some games afterward. 

Making State

     Lizzy headed to State this year with 4 other qualifiers. Daniel, Teddy, Lizzy's friend Rosilee, and I went up on Friday to cheer her on. 

Rosealie had brought her a candy bouquet as well as a real one.

Lizzy was excited and ready.

Both our girls won their first matches. Look how pleased Lizzy is.

    After her match, Lizzy was caught in her opponent's legs. She tapped her to get her to let go; unfortunately, her opponent had blacked out. Luckily, Lizzy's knowledge from watching the Pitt and her quick thinking revived her by rubbing her sternum. The medic was impressed with her.

They had to take her out on a stretcher.

That was the end of the first day. Her old coach came to cheer them on.

On Saturday, Emily and Charles joined us in the cheering.

We stopped for lunch at Murray's, a jazz restaurant with a great grilled cheese. I mean, look at this cheese pull!

This was parked outside.

Lizzy ended up taking 6th place! We are so proud of her!

Lizzy and Aubry!

We had 4 state winners, JP took first, Aubry and Arron took 5th. 

It was a great weekend, and we are so proud of her accomplishments.

Just for Fun

     Charles wanted to go to the park, there's a park near where he is doing his pt. I took Teddy there, and he joined us to show off his climbing skills. 

    Lizzy had a board party for her activity night. Everyone brought a different themed board. Lizzy chose fruity candy. There was a fries board, a chocolate board, and a regular charcuterie board. I think hers turned out so pretty!

 

    Emily finally got her chance to shine, the rescheduled Spiro competition finally took place. It was fun to cheer her on. I have no idea how they score these, so it was difficult to know how good a job they did. We had 2 teams this year, and the second team won and is going on to state. Emily was sad not to go, but she's happy for her friends.

Later that night, Daniel, Lizzy, Emily, and I went back to the high school to see:

    I have loved the books and the original series, but I had never seen the play before. It was well done, but I missed the bits they had to overlook due to time. They had period concessions too. Emily particularly liked the raspberry cordial. It was fun. 

    Since Lizzy is going to State this year, she had to make good on an old bet. She and Aubry had to dye their tips purple. 

    I hosted book club, and we were discussing Persuasion, so I made a cream tea for our discussion.

It was a fun night with great discussion. It was fun bringing out the china.

Discovering New Things

     On Tuesday, I took Teddy and the girls to Burr Oak to play. It was a bit too cold to walk the trails but the center is quite fun. Teddy and Brandy had a great time.

    Then Jessica demonsrtrated the "correct way" to eat Nerds. Apparently you need to lick it out of the box like a kitten lapping milk until the the box dissolves. 

    Daniel observed that he was meeting Brandy for the first time at the exact age he met Charly for the first time. That really took me back. Jessica had to leave the next day. Charly and Austin came to take her to the airport. It was bitter sweet to say goodbye, but I get to meet up with her in a few weeks. Luckily having Charly closer means we may see her more!

    That evening Daniel and I went to see Matt Dinnamin and Jeff Hays. Matt writes the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and Jeff does all the voices for the audio books. It was hilarious and a lot of fun. We were way up in the balcony.

The people in the third row kept turning people away due to the sound box blocking the view.

From the instagram post from RainyDay Books, were in the red circle.