5/3 Carter at the CMS Color Run

5/4 Chainsmoker’s concert

Carter was not impressed.

He was more interested in eating than watching the concert so I found a table next to the windows so that I could watch while he ate!

5/7 Raine finally got her learner’s permit! She had to go to court with me in the morning so that we could go straight to the DMV when I was done. Then we waited an hour and a half before we were called back.

I made her pump the gas for the first time on the way home!

5/12 Mother’s Day

5/17 Carter’s 8th Grade Celebration

5/23/2024 Last day of middle school

5/2 Carter’s school soccer game, he had some great saves.

Even though it looks like his hands on are on the wrong side of the ball, he snatched this one right out of the air in a great save.

5/4 Raine’s soccer game

5/7 Tornadoes

Raine’s team scored 2 goals directly off of Raine’s first 2 corner kicks.

5/11 Carter scored 8 points in his basketball game

Highlights from the 5/5 and 5/11 games

5/11 Raine’s last soccer game of the rec season. It was against a really terrible team, so our starting line-up had our defenders playing striker and our strikers playing defense. Raine scored fairly early in the game so Coach Grant made her play goalie! I believe that this is the first goal that Raine has ever scored that wasn’t off a corner, penalty, or free kick.

After the game, we had an end-of-season party at the Londoner.

Raine was awarded “Player of the Season.” She scored 3 goals this season on top of all of the countless assists and defensive plays she made.

4/4 Carter’s school soccer game

4/6 Carter’s rec soccer game

4/6 Raine’s rec soccer game – she scored a goal off an indirect free kick. The goalie touched it when she tried to stop it, so it counted as a goal.

4/11 Carter’s school soccer game

4/13 Carter’s rec soccer game

Raine was working as an assistant referee on a nearby field so I ran over to take pictures of her during Carter’s half-time.

Carter receiving his trophy for last season’s 2nd place finish.

Raine’s rec soccer game. They were winning 7-0 with 5 minutes left in the first half, so we left in order for Raine to get ready for prom.

4/18 Carter’s school soccer game

Raine’s rec soccer game

4/25 Carter’s school soccer game

Immediately after the school game, he had a rec game.

4/27 Carter’s rec game

Carter had to leave at half-time in his soccer game in order to get to his basketball game. He played great in this game.

2 points

Stuffed

Raine’s rec game

4/5 Raine’s Spring Fling dance at school

4/8 Total eclipse. We weren’t sure how much we would be able to see due to clouds, but fortunately, the clouds were pretty spotty where we were so we were able to see all of the different stages. Totality was beyond anything I expected. It wasn’t like a shadow, it was eerie, and all the street lights came on.

Carter stayed home from school but Raine went and watched the eclipse from the TCC campus. Fortunately someone took photos of her because I didn’t even think to take photos of us on the driveway watching it.

4/10 Youth temple trip

4/13 Raine went with Adam Sturgeon to his Keller High School Senior Prom. This was technically her first date, too. He had asked her to go to Mormon Prom back in March, but it was on a Friday night so she had a school soccer game and couldn’t go. She thought that was the end of it until he contacted her at about noon on Friday asking if she would go to his school prom with him. By some miracle, we found a dress and shoes Friday afternoon. And by some other miracle, we got her from sweaty soccer player to prom-ready in under two hours.

4/19 Raine found an injured bunny on her way to the bus stop. She wouldn’t leave it, so we had to take it to the animal hospital.

4/24 UIL Soccer Banquet. Raine was nominated 2nd Team All District

4/26 Boots and Beauties Daddy-daughter Dance

This photo was from Raine’s school newsletter. I believe it was taken on 4/26.

3/1 School soccer game.

Raine was named player of the game.

3/5 Last home game of the school soccer season.

3/8 Last school soccer game of the season and Raine had the best game she’s played all season.

3/10 – Carter’s basketball game

3/23 – Raine’s soccer game

3/30 – Carter’s basketball game

Easter weekend at the cabin

3/31 – Easter Sunday

February 2 – Raine’s team had their first regular season game in Decatur. They played much better than last year.

February 3 – Carter insisted on playing in the game even with his broken thumb still in the splint.

February 5 – Carter’s last middle-school basketball game

Will, Connor, Rigley, Carter, Fallin

February 6 – Raine’s first home soccer game of the season. She ended up going off early because she got tackled from behind and scraped all the skin off her knee and butt.

February 9 – Raine’s soccer game in Bridgeport. Her team is so much better this year than last.

February 13 – Raine’s soccer game at Castleberry. It was such a close game but they ended up losing 2-1.

These two photos were in the school newsletter.

February 16 – Raine’s soccer game against Lake Worth. Regular time ended in a 0-0 tie and we won in penalty kicks. This is the varsity girls’ first district win ever! My cousin Angie Badger and her daughter Finley were in town for a gymnastics meet and they came to watch in the windy cold.

February 17 – first rec league game of the season, a scrimmage against the Tigers where we won 3-0. Carter had a game at the same time at a different location so I missed his game.

February 17 – Carter’s basketball team made it to the playoffs and won their first game. Carter put up 2 points, had a rebound, and a bunch of assists.

February 18 – Carter’s team went into the championship game as the underdogs but managed to end the game just one point behind. It was a tough loss, but they have improved a ton this season.

Raine and her friends had a Galentines party.

February 23 – Raine’s school soccer game.

Collegiate Academy Varsity Girls Soccer Team

January 4-6 Raine played in the Springtown soccer tournament. Her team actually won their first game EVER! Unfortunately, she was injured in the Saturday morning game and unable to play in the afternoon game for 3rd place and her team lost in penalty kicks.

January 8 – Carter’s school game

January 14 – Carter’s club game

January 15 – we got a little bit of snow so Carter and his friends decided to go sledding at the elementary school. It wasn’t enough snow to sled on more than one or two runs down the hill and on Carter’s last run, the sled stopped in the grass while Carter kept going. He broke his thumb on his left hand and sprained his wrist on his right hand. Looks like that may be the end of his basketball season.

January 19 – Daddy and I went to the Ft Worth Stock Show Rodeo

January 23 – Raine’s team handily beat Western Hills again (the same team they beat and then lost to in the tournament)

12/24 Christmas Eve pajamas

12/25 Christmas morning

Christmas family photo

12/26-27 Riding e-bikes on the trails at the cabin.

12/4 Carter’s school basketball game

12/9 Carter’s club basketball game

12/16 Raine’s end-of-season soccer party at the Londoner where the Tornados received their 1st place trophies, even though we got kicked out of the league halfway through the season.

Carter’s school basketball pictures

8th grade C team, plus the practice squad players

December 1-3

We went on Thursday instead of Friday because I got tickets to see the taping for the Late Show. Unfortunately, production was cancelled because Stephen Colbert’s appendix burst a few days prior. We were able to find some last-minute tickets to the Michael Jackson musical instead.

NY Public Library

Christmas Market in Bryant Park

We took the subway down to Battery Park and as we were walking around, we found Dewey street.

Dinner with all our friends at Quality Meats

Rockefeller Square

Everyone else went to see Hadestown because we told them it was so good when we saw it last year. Since we had already seen it, we went to Kimberly Akimbo.

We met up with the Sweeney’s afterward for some cheesecake.

The next morning we walked around 5th Avenue until the Sweeneys called asking if we wanted to go to lunch at a Jewish Cafe. We ran into everyone else on our way.