Well, we’ve had a pretty eventful month and I guess I’ll start out with the youngest child and work my way up.
Ellie had her school track meet earlier in the month competing with the 7 Elementary schools in Spanish Fork. Following the expected pattern, she performed spectacularly. The events she selected to run were the 50 meter dash, the 100 meter dash, and the standing long jump. As we hypothesized, she took first place in every single one. We obviously weren’t surprised, we expect high excellence from our children and are rarely disappointed.
Moving on to the next little beam of sunshine, our lovely daughter Miriam. She also had a few noteworthy happenings recently, quite a funny story actually. She had a little spell of illness for a couple days, during those days she had a soccer game. Like the little trooper she is, she still wanted to play in her soccer game, she started playing, but after a couple minutes, she felt too sick to go on. After watching the game from the car and witnessing her team being mercilessly crushed by the opposing ten year olds. She decided to give it another shot (literally). She jumped back in the game and proceeded to score three goals in a matter of minutes, tying the game at 3-3. Sadly, the other team got in a lucky shot and won the game by sheer happenstance, but they will forever remember the day they faced Miriam.
Enoch similarly has a story involving soccer that he wanted to share, his team played a game in four inches of snow, they won 8-2. Obviously, the other team didn’t stand a chance.
After Natalie’s ACL tear, she hasn’t been able to play soccer, but this last month she was finally cleared to practice with her team. She has also been involved in track, she's getting faster, pretty soon she’ll be back to her old speedy self.
Isaac just had some pretty big track meets, the BYU track meet, the region track meet, and next week he has the state track meet. At the BYU track meet he performed very well making us exceedingly proud. He placed 13th overall in the state in the 400 meter (regardless of division) and 8th in 4A. In the 200 he placed 10th overall in the state, but we aren’t sure what place in 4A. At region he placed 4th in the 100, although he should have taken 2nd but he got jipped. His fourth place time was 11.12, the third place guy also got 11.12, the clock having to measure to the thousandth place. The second place runner ran a 11.11, meaning our beloved son could have literally stuck out his tongue and taken second. As you can see he is quite sore over the matter. He took 4th in the region for the 400, and although seeded 2nd, he had a bad race and placed 5th overall at region in the 200. His 4x400 team, which happens to have the fastest time in the state, also ran terribly and took second at region by inches. So, they are looking for redemption at state.
Our eldest daughter Auriana just took a trip to Las Vegas with her cousin Rebekah and Bjorn. Bjorn going to a convention, Auriana tagging along to work at the convention and earn some money.
