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

The kids missed 4 days of school, but at least we had power this time!

January 14 – Carter was back on the basketball court

Raine played with the Young Women team and scored some points!

January 21 – Carter had a great game; here are the highlights:

January 27 – Raine played in her first High School Varsity soccer game. She had a great game, unfortunately, the rest of her team wasn’t as great.

Here’s a highlights video from the first half. I had to leave at halftime because Daddy and I had tickets to see the Lion King musical.

January 28 – Carter had another basketball game.

January 2-7, 2023 we joined several other families that we know through soccer on the first ever Colleyville Ski Club ski trip to Snowmass, Colorado. We stayed at the Snowmass Mountain Chalet which was right on the slope so we could ski-in and ski-out. The kids skied 3 days and DJ and I skied 4 days.

January 2 – our original flight into Aspen was canceled the day before we were schedule to leave so they re-routed us through Houston (rather than Denver). The flight was later than our original booking, and then it was delayed another couple hours, so it was late when we finally arrived.

January 3 – we rented the kids’ skis/snowboard and hit the slopes. It was too cold and snowy for me take any photos beside this one of Raine on our way back from the ski shop next door to the hotel.

January 4 – Raine took too long to get ready in the morning, so we skied without her for the first couple hours.

The snow was perfect.

Raine was eventually ready so I skied back to pick her up.

January 5 – we all headed out together and had perfect weather.

Carter snowboarding down a blue run.

Raine skiing down a blue, then a black diamond.

That night, all the adults went to a nice dinner at Little Mammoth Steak House. Before we left, we took a group photo in the hotel lobby.

January 6 – Daddy and I skied all by ourselves in the deep powder on the black runs. It was exhausting!

That night, we down to the Snowmass Village to eat crepes for dinner.

January 7 – We didn’t have to leave for the airport until 3:00, so Raine and Daddy went to ride the mountain coaster while Carter and I took the bus over to Aspen to look around.