Katy is continuing to love diving. This was one of her last classes for the first level that she was in. She has since moved up to a higher level with only girls 13-18 in it. She really does seem to like it. We found out that there are 2 other girls on the high school diving team, they are looking forward to having her join them next spring.
As things slowly get back to normal, we had an Easter celebration. Again, the Easter Bunny hid way too many eggs. The kids had a good time hunting them all over the front and back yards. I am sure that some were never found.
We celebrated Katy’s birthday. It is hard to believe she is 14. High school next year. We celebrated at the Springer’s.
We had Sam’s birthday party for the family in the hospital. It actually turned out ok. Special Patient Services provided us with a private patio and drinks and ice cream. We provided the cake and pizza. The Maxfields also came. Shortly after the party, Sam, Katy, and Margaret all got to go see the Life Flight helicopter. I’ll post a few pictures when I find my camera.
Margaret had a surprise party today for her birthday. I am not sure how surprised she was, but she seemed to be having a good time.
Grandma Pat and I went to see Katy dive today. She has come along pretty well. Here she is doing a back tuck off the 1 meter board. It looks like beginning in March, she is going to move up into “Level 5”. Basically, that means she will be officially in the diving program as opposed to just in the beginning to dive class.
Correction: Katy has told me she did a back dive tuck, not a back tuck dive.
Today, Evan and I went to stand out in the cold rain and hail and watch some skinny guys go by us quickly. The blurry guy in front in this picture is Levi Leipheimer. He will probably win the whole thing. The blurry guy in the back in this picture is Lance. I had never been to see a race at this level. It was interesting to see these people “pedaling in anger” even though it was such a miserable day today.
Margaret turned 10 today. Double digits. With all that has been going on with us the last few weeks, it was nice to celebrate her birthday. She was at school and girl scouts most of the day and then went home with her grandparents for a sleep over, but the little we did see of her was nice.
No pictures (yet), but today we went to see the Van Meter production of “Snow White and the 67 Little People”. Margaret has been working hard on crew the last few weeks, making sets and various other things. This afternoon was the last showing.
Sam’s class did a Rosa Parks play this morning. Sam was “Narrator 2”. It was very cute, a bunch of lilly white kids pretending to be Rosa and MLK. They all did very well.