This year was Margaret’s turn to go to England with her GrandMa Susan. She took LOTS of pictures.
Category: trip
Susan, Margaret, Sam, and I (and the dogs) hiked up to and beyond the f tree. It was absolutely gorgeous above 8000 feet at the end of our canyon. I felt like singing “The Hills are Alive” the whole time I was up there.
We finally all (except Katy) made it back to Tahoe for the first time in a very long time. After the first night, we thought we might have to go back down because Elizabeth’s feet up to her knees were swollen. Fortunately, a walk through Page Meadows fixed that. The dogs had a good time as well. Margaret took all of the pictures. This may be the best one.
Katy and Margaret had their end of the year piano recital. Luckily, we went to the wrong church the week before and then finally to the right church when we figured out that we were a week early. We knew where and when this time.
We went to school today to see Margaret as part of the 4th grade wax museum. Each student was someone famous. When you pressed their “red dot” they would tell you about who they were and what they did when they were alive. Margaret was Eleanor Roosevelt.
Susan has been taking one child at a time to see the opera in San Jose over the last few months. It is a big day out with the opera and supper at a fancy restaurant and all. Well, she decided to take all 3 of them to see Carmen. They all had a great time and when they got home, Elizabeth was here to meet them as a surprise.
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.
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.
The end of the FLL season is here (for us). We had the tournament today. Again, the kids did extremely well and they had a great time doing it. We got 5th place in the robot challenge and probably about that overall. You can find a video of one of the runs here.