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 We survived the month of April!  With soccer, track, piano and girls on the run, our schedule was very carefully orchestrated.  I can only remember one hiccup where I had to call Nate while at GOTR because a pop up storm canceled Evelyn’s track meet.  The bus was returning to school early and who was going to be there to pick her up. Wednesday night at goalie training, the dad of one of Jameson’s friends offered us tickets to the Fort Wayne Football Club’s home opener at their brand new stadium.  With no plans for Saturday night we were pretty excited. The stadium is not finished and the section our seats were in was not open. None of the rows were labeled and the seats weren’t numbered so we kind of guessed what seats seemed appropriate.  A few people were frustrated by the situation but most people were in good spirits and just tried to find seats in the general area of their ticket.  It was a fun night.  Fort Wayne scored the opening goal but ...
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Fun recap

 It was a busy week! But we survived.  Girls on the Run started. Indoor soccer ended. Middle school track started. Lip sync was Wednesday night. Jameson’s class performed Golden from K Pop Demon Hunters.  Saturday was AIMs (achievement in music). I stayed with Jameson as he went to all his stations. He did, I thought, a great job on his repertoire pieces. We could hear Evelyn’s second repertoire piece through the door and it sounded great too. We went straight from AIMs to FAME (festival of art and music education) because we wanted to hear the elementary school choir.  We knew a good number of kids singing and a bunch of their older siblings were around for Evelyn to hang out with. Jameson even saw two soccer friends. Sunday we finally made it to a Komets hockey game. It wasn’t a super exciting game as the Komets scored the only goal early in the first period. But it’s always a good game when your team wins. 

La Liga

Introducing Jameson’s La Liga team. He was asked to play goalie on a futsal team for Fort Wayne’s La Liga winter season.  It was all boys from his soccer club but not boys he often plays with. The final tournament was today. The boys easily won their first game. Jameson had some awesome saves.  Second game was much closer. They lost 5-7. Jameson had another great game. It was tied and then one goal went high and he jumped but couldn’t quite get his fingers on the ball to deflect it. The other was a PK which is so hard to defend. The boys were of course disappointed. But Jameson really played his best games as goalie. He was locked in and even took two shots on goal.  Nothing wrong with second place. I don’t know their final record but they only lost two games all season.

Basketball city championship

 Middle school basketball tournament play started last week. Evelyn’s team had a record of 11-1 so they had a bye on Tuesday. They played Wednesday and won. Semi finals were Thursday and they won.  City finals was Saturday. It was a tight game in the beginning. The girls had beat this other team in the regular season so they knew they could do it again. In the second half they settled down a bit and were able to get ahead and stay ahead. They won 38-19. Evelyn played in all four quarters and had 4 points. 

HBD Evelyn

 Evelyn turned 12 on Tuesday!  I am finally getting around to posting pictures because the week was so busy. It’s hard when your birthday is a weekday and no 2 hr delay like Jameson got. She asked for donuts for breakfast so I go up early to run to Jack’s. Which is worth it because they are good donuts. Then off to school and basketball practice.  Leftovers for dinner because Jameson had soccer practice (birthday dinner finally happened tonight).  At last, time for cupcakes and presents!

Basketball

 Kids have been out of school since Friday. Everyone’s feeling a little cooped up. We have left the house for some things but when we had the chance to go to a Purdue Fort Wayne women’s basketball game last night we took it. Kids were free and it was national girls and women in sports day.  We picked up Evelyn’s friend Daphne on our way. We just got upper level seats. It’s not a big gym so there’s no need to pay extra for lower level seats. We weren’t there very long before the emcee came over and offered us 5 court side seats. We figured it was because we brought the only two girls in the building. We didn’t take anymore pictures but some of us did show up on social media. Court side seats are pretty awesome. 

HBD Jameson

 Jameson turned 10 yesterday! It was a fairly normal Tuesday except there was no basketball game or soccer practice which was a nice change of pace. He asked for cinnamon rolls for breakfast. I was only able to make them in time for school because they had a two hour delay. After school and dinner out it was time to open presents. Evelyn got him a new board game based on the tv show survivor. She played it at a friend’s house and thought Jameson would like it.  He also got some fun treats - pop, candy and chips.  Finally time for cake!