Soccer Seasons

Great day today for our teams.

This morning Lukas scored a goal as Blitz won 5-1. 

Lennon got 3 assists in his team's 5-0 win.

And FC Dallas (the MLS team) kicked off their season with a 2-0 win tonight.

Good times.

Fastnachtskuechle, Kaesekuchen and Charcoal Drawing

Today being Fat Tuesday/ Shrove Tuesday or Fastnachtsdienstag had me making a special, once a year only eaten treat: Fastnachstkuechle. These delicious, in cinammon sugar rolled, diamond shaped little doughnuts are made only once a year, the tradition going back to when people would clear out their pantries before the start of Lent or Fastenzeit. Growing up, my Oma made these for about 4 families every Fat Tuesday, along with apple sauce or a compote of prunes, dates and figs (doesn't sound appealing, but actually tasted really good). This year, I decided to reinstate the tradition and make them myself, sans the compote. We served them with strawberries, homemade vanilla whipped cream, maple syrup and powdered sugar instead.

Keira rolled all the treats in cinnamon sugar.

I have been meaning to bake a Kaesekuchen for a few days now, but didn't get around to it until today. Oh, I also made the weekly loaf of bread.

 Katharine produced this charcoal drawing today. she has been going to a portfolio class at a small but very good art school for the last few weeks now. The teacher invited her to drop in in one of the adult classes in the morning to get some extra instruction from the teacher. All the adults in this class are working artists. I think Katharine held her own, especially as  she just started  working with charcoal less than a week ago.

Team Travel Time

Lennon and I are heading out for his first soccer travel trip ever this weekend.

Lennon has been playing top division club soccer for around 5 years now, and has never played outside of Dallas. He has friends who have played in Las Vegas, San Diego, Colorado, Austin, Orlando, England, Germany, Brazil- and we are going to.. 

Houston

It isn't the most glamorous of destinations, but it's a first step :)

Here is a nice free kick of his from last week (into a pretty strong head wind).

Katharine Art

Here are some drawings from last week's figure drawing session.

Keira Art

 

Kassidy Art

Here are some recent drawings from Kassidy.

 

I like the swirly trees.

 

 

Lap Cat

A few shots of Sophie as she followed my lap around the house tonight.

Frousin Fun

It is another Martel weekend.

The kids spent most of Saturday together and will be sleeping over tonight.

I expect the fun times to continue..

Performance Awards 2020

The annual Performance Awards show was today, and it was great to see Keira return and Kassidy perform in it for the first time.

Katharine no longer dances in these shows, but we remember her performing the same routines when she was younger.

The Doescher Gazette (1st edition)

Keira wrote and printed out the first Doescher Gazette today.

She is also trying to build a printing press that uses block letters. She printed a "K" this week, after a little trial and error.

Great start!