Thirteen

Kali's birthday started with her waking up an opening her presents from us and her immediately changing into her new Office t-shirt. Then, we went to pick up doughnut holes for her last day of school. 

 After school I picked her and two friends up and then they had her favorite cheese and fancy crackers from the Fry's cheese counter. They did some 3-D printing and hung out until the party started.

 Her party was next door at my parent's house so the kids could go swimming.

 the theme was "Frappe Birthday" so we had Kali's favorite Starbucks tea to drink. Her other favorite things were my homemade brownies with melted chocolate topping, muddy buddies, popcorn, snowcones and Barro's pizza.

 it was a windy today so the girls flew a kite

 they played ping pong and took pictures

 it was a good night

Happenings.....

Francis and I forgot to celebrate our anniversary so 3 weeks later we finally found the time to go out for a delicious dinner at Flemmings. Seriously, I had the best lobster mac n cheese EVER!

 I met up for a girl's day with my good friends from high school and we had a nice lunch and headed over to watch a chick flick. 

 Kali got her hair done professionally for the first time & looks SO grown up! She will be a teenager on May 22nd!

 There is a teacher walkout right now so no sub jobs for me and no school for the kids. Kai went to a soccer camp for one of the days.

 some of his teammates were there and they had a good time. Kali went to wet n wild with a friend that day too.

 Kora and I went to Costco and watched the boys for a little bit.

 Kora has been LOVING her soccer season! She scored a goal in each of her last two games. She is a great defender and is not afraid to knock a person off the ball. We are so proud of her.

 And, last but not least.,,,,,,Francis' soccer team won the SUASL (Scottsdale United Amateur Soccer League) 40+ Championship. This is a BIG deal because this has been Fran's goal for 2 1/2 years now. After coming in 2nd place 4 times the team was SOOO happy. This is such a great group of guys on and off of the field. Go Sand Dragons!

Random

Kora has been drawing the cutest little pictures of us. I love her art.

 Kali is getting so big! She playing basketball at the community center again and going back to swim team this week. She's a very busy girl.

 Kai is playing with the older '06 boys in the President's Cup tournament and also playing futsol at Phoenix College so he's keeping busy too.

 Francis hurt his back and has not been able to take Kai to soccer so I've been driving him downtown and I get cute pictures sent to me of these two at home.

School stuff

Kora likes to do pretend homework while Kai works on his. Kai was tested for the gifted program and got in. He is not very excited about extra work, ha!

 Kali is still enjoying 7th grade. Basketball, student council and STEAM are keeping her busy. She also enjoys not wearing warm clothes when it's cold out. This is  a pic of her when I told her it was going to be a high of 58* 

Watching Basketball

A childhood friend of mine coaches the Shadow Mountain girl's varsity basketball team so we went to watch them in the semi-finals at Grand Canyon University with my parents. It was a such a fun night and we got to see a little bit of the boys game after. Kali LOVED it!

 Kali's season is almost done and her team is 6-3 and headed to the finals at Moon Valley High School this weekend.

 Aunt Mel, Grandma Kathi and cousin Caige came to her game last week. Go Kali!!

Lady Eagles

Kali has been having a fun time playing on her school's 7th grade basketball team. We get up very early on practice days because she has to be there at 7:20. 

 She has one or two games a week  and her team is doing pretty good. 

 They had their first home game and big win last week. 

Go Lady Eagles!!!