Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

December 19 we drove to Taos, NM for a three-day, pre-Christmas ski vacation. We knew that we were taking a gamble on snow coverage, and while there was barely enough to open a couple runs, we had fun anyway. We stayed in a little condo right next to the resort so we could ski in for lunch and then hike down the road to catch the lift (since there wasn’t enough coverage to ski out).

We drove home on the 23rd and Raine dressed for the unseasonably warm temps in Texas rather than the icy temps at Taos.

December 18, 2021

BYU played in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA so we drove over to watch the Cougar Football team end their season. It was cold and rainy most of the game, and BYU lost terribly, but we survived.

November 17, 2021 Southlake, 2-mile 15:12.0; 31st

11/18/21

November 30, 2021 Bedford, 2-mile 15:58.3 17th

December 8, 2021 Southlake, 2-mile 14:15.2; 37th out of 90.

December 14, 2021 Southlake, 2-mile 14.39.4; 46th out of 144.

*** UPDATED ***

January 12, 2022 GCISD District Championship, Cross Timbers MS, 2-mile 15:51.6; 22nd out of 64

* Note: the Southlake course was short, everyone’s times were a lot faster in Southlake than at the other courses.

December 2, 2021

Raine competed in the school spelling bee again this year (it was back in-person after being just a computerized test last year).

Raine finished in the top 10, but she wasn’t happy at all. She got out on Korea because she literally didn’t know what the pronouncer was talking about. Raine is TERRIBLE at geography, so when the pronouncer automatically gave the definition because it is a homonym, it completely confused poor Raine. I could see the confusion on her face and knew she was done for. Sure enough, she spelled it with a C because she thought it was in the Caribbean.

She was so mad afterwards that I had to pull her out of school and take her out for brunch before she could go back to class!

Interesting side-not: Raine wore the same shirt that she wore 2 years earlier when she won the school bee in 6th grade. Apparently it wasn’t a lucky shirt after-all!