Chase's Senior Soccer Season

 Chase had his last basketball game on Friday and then went straight into the soccer season the next week. (March 8th).  He made the soccer team!  There were 6 seniors on the team:  Izzy, Gabe, Enoch, Keyjun, Josh and Chase.  Jesse E was the head coach.  It was a brutal season!  They lost every game!  Three games went into over time.  They just couldn't pull it off.  I was so proud of our boys for not giving up.  Chase played every game with all of his heart!  He fought so hard even when they were getting blown away.  I had a couple of parents comment on how even in the last three minutes when they're losing, Chase still gives it 100%.  This was a really tough season to keep their heads up.  Four out of the six schools in our region are in the top 10 in the state for 4A.  We have a really hard region.  I'm hoping that one day our school will be able to have a good program.  The other schools have 100 boys trying out for 30 spots.  We have 30 kids trying out and everyone makes it.  The other schools also play soccer year round and it's the only sport they focus on.  That makes it really hard to compete against.  But I was so proud of our boys and how hard they fought at every game.  Jesse did a great job of communicating with the seniors and valuing their input.  Chase has fought so hard to come back to sports after two torn ACL surgeries.  We didn't know if he'd every be able to play sports again.  We're so proud of his dedication.  We're so thankful that he was able to play basketball and soccer without any major injuries.  

Another fabulous cake!

 Cake by C posted a strawberry Biscoff cake.  It called to me because I finally broke down and decided to try to make it.  The cake was a Biscoff cake that you cut in half so you have four layers.  I did two layers of cookie butter/Biscoff frosting and then the middle layer was strawberry frosting with small pieces of strawberries.  The outside frosting was a strawberry buttercream that was amazing!  I thought it was too thick at first so I thinned it down.  But then when I frosted the cake it was too thin and wouldn't stay up in some places.  Then I crushed some Biscoff cookies for the top.  The cake was amazing!!  I shared some with Jen and she was impressed.  The cake was a lot of work but it was delicious!

Matt's Knee Scope

 Matt started having knee pain in his left knee.  It got to the point that he couldn't do any activity without the pain really bothering him.  He had a MRI which showed a meniscus tear.  Dr. Bitner did a knee scope at BR hospital to clear up the tear.  He scheduled it so he could recover during his week off.  He recovered really quickly.  His knee stayed swollen for awhile but Dr. Bitner said that's common.  Hopefully this will help Matt feel better.  

School Projects

 The second semester has ended.  Chase finished up his last art class.  He brought home some of his projects and showed them to us.  He did a great job on his projects.  I had no idea he is such a great artist.  He really has some talent.  

Tanner wrote his first Spanish paper.  "Me gusta pizza.  Me gusta casa.  No me gusta bananas."  He read it to me.  "I like pizza.  I like house. I don't like bananas."  He is loving the dual immersion program.  His teacher has been wonderful.  It was a rocky start but I feel like they're finally making some progress.  

Ardell and Charlene sweet moments

 Charlene's Alzheimer has been progressing steadily.  Her stoke unfortunately exacerbated the Alzheimer.  We've been trying to spend as much time with them as possible.  We invited them to come up and eat dinner with us.  After dinner, Matt and Chase asked Grandma and Grandpa A some questions about their childhood.  Matt recorded it.  It was such a sweet moment hearing about their childhoods.  Chase asked them how they met.  Matt took the sweetest picture of them sitting on the couch together.  Afterwards, Tanner brought in one of his books and read to Charlene.  She loves to listen to him read.  

Skiing at CP

 When we went skiing with the W's last time, I realized that I had lost my skis at CP when we went the first time.  I was giving Tanner a piggy back to the car and set my skis next to the van.  I totally forgot about them and drove off and didn't realize it until the next morning when we were at NV.  I called CP and they said that they didn't have them and most likely they were stolen.  I was so sad!!!  A couple of weeks later, we went back to CP and my skis were in the lost and found!!!  My prayers were answered!  

Our Saturdays have been so busy with games that the boys talked me into pulling them out of school again to go skiing.  I asked Nick's mom how she felt about Nick missing school to go with us.  She was great with it.  So Bridger invited his friend Nick to come with us.  Nick went with us one time last year and he was improved so much!  Bridger and Nick went off on the harder trails while Tanner and I skied together. We met up for lunch and ate our sandwiches in the car.  At lunch time, we took off half of our clothes off because we were sweating.  We stayed together after lunch because Tanner had improved so much.  He was able to stay on the blues.  We love having Nick with us.  He's such a great kid and a great friend to Bridger and Tanner.  The weather was beautiful.  It was a perfect day of spring skiing.  (The resorts could use more snow is my only complaint).