Stretched

Katharine had another competition this weekend and picked up some nice awards for her solo tap dance number.

Hamilton!

This show's arrival in Dallas was announced two years ago, and we finally got to see it tonight.

The kids already knew the soundtrack by heart, and all I can say is that the smiles were even bigger walking out of the theater.

Potter, Wave 3

Keira and Kassidy are the latest kids in the family to become obsessed with Harry Potter. Both are reading the books in the series for the first time, and are running around the house with pretend wands and spells.

Here are some maps that they drew at church today. 

Kassidy's is on top, Keira's is on the bottom.

Another Classic Season

Lennon's team finally finished up Classic League this weekend, after around 15 of their games were canceled/rescheduled because of bad weather over the course of the season. That must have been a record.

Anyways, they finished in the Top 10 and qualified to stay in Division 1 next year. It was a hard fought battle, as they were in 16th place as late as February. 

Lennon scored his team's only hat trick of the season, and had a handful of additional goals and assists.

Now the summer tournaments start up, and then the team moves on to 11x11 play next year- which means longer games, bigger fields, bigger balls, more players, and bigger goals. 

Should be fun!

The Three Easter Egg Hunts of Easter

Lots of Easter Egg Hunts this past weekend!

Friday

The Gearbox Easter Egg Hunt was held on Friday afternoon. I like this one, as they always serve free drinks and gourmet pizza. That is my producer Allison in the bunny outfit- she always wanted to be a Disney theme park character but has too many tattoos to qualify. Now she is living the dream.

Saturday

The Martel Easter Egg hunt had some serious money in play- but Keira had the $20 dollar golden egg snatched out from in front of her reaching hand by a younger kid. Everybody is dressed in orange for Brian's birthday.

Sunday

Our longest Easter Egg Hunt tradition is at Grandma Donnas house. The kids always love it, because there is such an abundance of eggs that everyone can fill their bags to overflowing. They were still finding some eggs about hour after the initial start.

On to the egg counting!

Group and Solo Sessions

Homeschooling at the Doeschers this morning.

Keira and Mercy

Keira's dance friend Mercy came over for a few hours yesterday. It was her first visit.

Nice to meet you, Mercy!

Easter Nativity

Introducing Hermione Granger

Keira just started reading the Harry Potter series, so of course she is walking around as the Hermione character most of the time (which is actually a pretty good fit for her). Here she is in her Gryffindoor colors this morning, walking around with her magical beasts notebook.

Bur don't worry- she still breaks out her bonnet and plays in the pretend prairie.

A Tale of Two Beds

Competition Season

Spring is here- the season of new beginnings.. and dance competitions.

Keira and her Pace dance group won a platinum trophy for their Mary Poppins dance, and 8th overall in her age category. Their jazz number won an elite gold.