Week of 2-3-19

CHARITY'S BRACES OFF!

Charity finally got her braces off!!  It was a very blessed day for her!  Much anticipated for the past month and a half!  She was so excited to have them off that she missed that they had left a bracket on!  She noticed on the way home, her back molar still had a bracket on it!  Kinda nuts.  She had to wait til later in the day to get it off.  Kinda funny, mostly annoying :).  But we're so happy for her!  She looks beautiful still and really loves the way her teeth look now!  :).  2-6-19

Molly's cute new shirt :).

BRAD WRESTLING
Well, it's really real- we put in all of Brad's paper work and fees and bought his shoes and head gear for him to be on the wrestling team!  He's been working his little butt off with all the conditioning every morning at 6:00!!  I've been so proud of him, getting himself up and ready to go on his own!  It's been fun to see him have something too.  I am nervous about it, because it's the unknown of course, but really excited for him!  Can't wait to see how he does with it.
 2-6-19

VARSITY!!!
Kelly made the varsity team this week!  It was a long three days of tryouts which slowly progressed from "I did so good today!" on Monday to, "I'm not going to make it!....  I really don't want to be on JV... I'm going to be with all the dumb little girls!" on Wednesday.  I was never really able to talk her off the cliff she was sitting on Wednesday night, but I can't express my joy when I got the texts during my Presidency meeting, from her and Nate, that she made Varsity!!  Pretty cool!  I never worried about her making it until that last day of tryouts because of her weird attitude and stories about them pulling girls out and asking them if they would prefer to be Varsity or JV, but she did get me a little concerned!  All along though I've known she would make it!  She's so good!  Plus, they had her on varsity last year for a couple games!  It was a no-brainer!  SO anyway!  Go KELZ!!!  2-6-19

BOOKING HOTEL ROOMS
So as soon as we found out Kelly was on the Varsity team, we were invited to the Best of the West Tournament and told that we needed to book our room by midnight that night- I got this email at about 11:30!!!  It ended up not working to use the team rooms, but with Nate's charisma we were able to book a room BY the team, using Nate's government discount it ended up costing the same as the team discount :).  SO that was nice :).  We're going to Vegas!!  In two weeks!  Pretty thrilling :).  2-7-19

GIRLS BASKETBALL
Erika and I went to Kelly's game this week, with church ball.  It's pretty funny to watch our little team.  I say little because they're all under 12 basically.  With the exception of Kelly and Cameron Last.  Well, usually they have Charity too, but she was on her day date, which I should probably document but I might just have her write about it.  ANyway- It was fun to sit and chat with ward members, and they did make a few baskets- Kelly made a bunch- but overall, it's pretty cute!  The little girls are so little!  They try so hard and do so well with what they can!  The opposing team this week was WAY bigger than them.  So that was a bummer, but they actually did pretty good considering.  2-7-19