July 6, we caught a 6:00 a.m. flight from DFW to San Juan then drove about an hour out to El Conquistador Resort.
July 7, after breakfast on the patio, we took the resort shuttle-boat out to Palomino Island for some snorkeling.
June 23-24 we met up with Aunt Sarah’s family in New Braunfels and hung out for a couple days.
The first day, Carter and Daddy went with the Jolley’s to Schlitterbahn water park while Raine and Mom went shopping at the outlet malls. We all met up for dinner that evening.
Saturday, we floated the Comal river.
Afterwards, we had lunch, then drove home.
Saturday we took Daddy to the Go Ape ropes course in Arlington. It was hot, but we toughed it out.
After the ropes course, Daddy and I did a scuba refresher course, but I don’t have any photos of that.
Sunday, Raine made dinner while I made a cake. Then we gave him some presents.
May 6
Highlight video:
Back: Fernanda, Cadia, Coach Grant, Ava Henesy, Grace, Jordan, Shinali, Kaitlyn, Katherine, Raine
Front: Olivia, Emma, Anna, Maya, Lilly
May 17 – Awards Ceremony
Raine received 2 academic awards at the awards ceremony. The first for AB Honor Roll (she got an 89% in Drama, her first college class; that was her lowest grade). The second was an award from her English teacher for her perseverance.
May 13 – Raine’s last game of the season was a 5-0 win
Highlights video from the game. Raine called me from school Friday afternoon super sick — fever, chills, sore throat. I took her straight to the urgent care to get all the tests run — strep, flu, COVID. Everything was negative, so they diagnosed her with an upper respiratory infection. I wasn’t sure she was going to be able to play on Saturday, but she pulled it together. You can tell she wasn’t in top form though.
May 20 – Anna Petchesky’s Bat Mitzvah at Congregation Beth Israel and Paradise Cove
May 29 Memorial Day
May 30 while Raine was attending to her leadership duties at Camp Collegiate, Carter, Daddy, and I went to Benny’s Cafe.
April 1
April 6
April 10
April 11 – Soccer banquet. Raine received a certificate for being on varsity as well as one for being nominated first team all district!
April 15
April 22
Raine took her first corner kick and she dropped it perfectly in front of the far side of the goal. Unfortunately, her teammate didn’t connect to put it in the goal.
April 29
Lane, Eli, Hayden, Luke, Weston, Aaron, Will (squatting), Benji, Jack, Blake, Carter, William
Highlight video of Raine’s kicks during the game.
I forgot to take my camera bag to her game on 4/27 and she scored a goal off a corner kick– it was beautiful! So on 4/29 she made sure that DJ had the camcorder so that he could film her corners. Unfortunately, she was kicking into a stiff wind (26 mph with gusts of 38 mph) so they didn’t go as far as usual.
And just for fun, here’s a link to a post with a video of Raine’s first corner kick.
April 8, we watched the US Women’s National Soccer Team beat Ireland down in Austin. We went down the evening before the game and our hotel was only two blocks from the stadium so we walked over with plenty of time to take pictures and buy merchandise before kickoff.
#13 Alex Morgan
Our hotel was right between the stadium and a high-end shopping district, so we did a little shopping the evening we arrived, after dinner, and Carter found some chocolate bars.
March 3 – Raine’s soccer game
March 4 – Deacon’s basketball tournament (Carter was key to their 2nd place finish)
March 10 – Raine’s last soccer game of the season. Grandma and Grandpa Anderson came to watch.
March 12-14 – Lake Palo Pinto, Spring Break with Grandma and Grandpa Anderson
March 26 – my Sunbeam class
Paxton, Jones, JB, Steel, Leola, Tom, Clara
February 4 – I only took video of Carter’s game and never got it cut into a highlights video. But at least I got a group photo from Raine’s YW basketball game.
February 7 – Raine’s freezing cold soccer game in the rain
February 10 – Raine’s soccer game
She had some serious turf burn which eventually produced enough blood that she got sent off the field.
February 14 – Raine’s soccer game
February 17 – Raine’s soccer game ended in a tie and went to penalty kicks. Raine was the only one on her team to make it!
I was screaming so loud when she made it that I had to delete the audio on the video!
February 18 – Carter’s basketball team, the Hawks, placed 2nd in the end-of-season tournament after taking 3rd in the regular season.
February 21 – Raine’s soccer game
February 24 – Raine’s soccer game
February 28 – Raine’s soccer game
