Futsal 2015

Matt loves to play soccer, so when he brought home information about the Futsal season he asked to play. I agreed to let him and signed him up. The season was 9 weeks from the end of January to the end of March. He could hardly wait for it to start.
When he met his team for the first time he wasn't all that excited because he didn't know anyone, but soon made some friends. His team was made up of 5 boys and 3 girls.
It wasn't the most successful season with only 1 win, 6 losses and 1 tie, but it was exciting to see the progress the team made over the coarse of the season. The score of 3 of the loses was 3-2. It was disappointing that they didn't win more but each game they played hard.
Matt loved to play goalie and did a great job of stopping the shots when he would pay attention, sometimes he would get bored and hang on the net or get distracted where they would score. He played forward the best if you ask me because he didn't get bored and he wasn't afraid to get in there and kick the ball hard away from the other team. Matt ended the season with 8 of the teams 25 goals.  

Team Green Hornets from left to right: Kyler, Emily, Giel, Matt, Linus, Jake, Gwen, & Coach Karen

Playing hard

Matt got his shoe caught in the net a couple of times in one game, it was great.

Kicking it hard

He Shoots, He almost Scores

To celebrate the season the Green Hornet go to McDonalds

Dazzling Diamonds

Kylynn brought home a paper from school advertising the Dazzling Diamonds, she asked if she could do it. At first I told her no because it caused to much. She began to cry and talk about how I never let her do anything she wants. I thought about it and asked myself why I wasn't letting her do this when I was willing to spend about the same amount of money on the other kids to play sports. In the end I decided that I needed to let her do this to help her with her confidence  and self esteem if nothing else.
You may wonder what the Dazzling Diamond are, well it is a non-competitve program done in conjunction with the Miss Rexburg pageant. Kylynn got to attend several different workshops on Poise, self-confidence, and dance routines. He favorite workshop was the Glam session, where she got to have her hair and make-up done at Paul Mitchell and then have a photo shoot.
Kylynn worked really hard and looked forward to each activity, It was never a problem getting her to go, because it was something she truly enjoyed.
As the final event she was able to participate in the Miss Rexburg Pageant on March 21st. In total there were 13 Dazzling Diamonds. They performed a group dance number at the program. They also got so show off what they learned in there poise workshop and walk on stage modeling their own Evening Gowns and have a spot light read about them written by their parents.  The final time they were on stage was to escort on of the Miss Rexburg contestants on the stage for the Evening Gown competition.
Kylynn did wonderful and she looked so beautiful, thanks to Grandma Erikson, Aunt Cristy and Justine doing her hair and make-up.
When it was all over I found out that she got so much more out of doing this program then the $75 I payed for her to participate. I am so glad that she was able to do this.

Ky after Glam night

Hair that Grandma did before the performance

Opening number

Modeling Evening Gown

Escorting Darbi Bragg on stage with Katie Klingler

Winter Guard

Jessica loves to do guard (Flags). She was excited when Mr. Barton said that he was going to do winter guard after school. She was probably the first to sign up. They had practice each Monday after school for the months of January and February. She never complained on these day about getting home so much later because it was something she really loves doing.
Unlike last year, this year Mr Barton planned to have them perform the drill at one of the High School guard competitions.
They were performing to the song "Hard knock Life" from Annie. They were using brooms and mop along with the flag. It was a fun performance and Jessica did wonderful. As we were leaving the school Jessica turned to me and said" Next year I can do the solo competition." I'm so glad that she has found something she truly enjoys and I hope she does continue developing her skills.
I had wanted to record the performance but Delwyn was so tired from being up all night and day that he didn't realize it wasn't recording until the last 45 sec, then he started to record. But at least I took lots of pictures for her to remember it.