Wade's 2015 Flag Football experience

Flag football was great this year.  Wade moved to the final division, ages 12-15, and had a fantastic team and coaches.  The Bears had Coach Robinson and Coach Ron, who were upbeat, positive, and fun.  And Wade had some good friends on the team--Nick Speredelozzi and Ben Washburn!

Wade played mostly defense positions and pulled a lot of flags this year.  The icing on the cake, besides the fun, was going undefeated the whole season! Cool!

The jury is out whether Wade will play tackle football next--he is definitely thinking about it!

Way to go, Broncos!

Well, the Denver Broncos choked in the Super Bowl, but Wade's Broncos flag football team had a lot of fun this season.  Wade had some great coaches, Coach Chris and Coach Wes, who taught the boys some fun plays and were very positive and upbeat.  Their team only won a handful of games but never got beat into the ground on the losses, either.  Way to go, Wade!  He liked playing linebacker the most.  It was a fun season that ended too quickly!

Some big "firsts" today

It's been a happy, busy Saturday!

Jason and I got our P90X3 workouts in.

I took the dogs for a good walk.

Wade (with a little help from Mom) got his science project board completed.

We went to Game Stop and cashed in a gift card from the Round Rock Sheens (thanks, guys!!!!!!!!!!!)!

Rhiannon had a blast at her second-to-last volleyball clinic class.  She said they worked on a lot of defensive moves today.  She'll be sad when the class ends next week and asked me if we could get a volleyball so she could practice some of the things she's learned in the backyard.  :)  I love that she's having a good time with it.  Besides tennis and swim lessons and one season of soccer, she hasn't tried anything else "sporty".  She said she could definitely see herself wanting to do volleyball again--here in town they offer this particular clinic to kids all the way up to age 19--yay!

Wade scored his first-ever touchdown in his team's flag football game this afternoon.  It was a pretty exciting moment, the first time he's done that since he started playing flag football a few years ago.  We'd never seen him run that fast, ha-ha!  We asked him how he felt when he got the ball in his hands, and he said, "I felt like I was on steroids!"  Adrenal kicked in and got him to the goal line!

And then tonight the kids joined me in the kitchen for their first official "Cooking with Mom" lesson of the year.  Last year I failed in my goal to teach them 12 meals.  This year I said we'd do 6, and we got off to a great start tonight.  For the first time ever, both kids cut up raw chicken (and survived).  They read the recipe, got all the ingredients prepped, and then made the meal with very little help from me.  They learned 3 cooking tips:  be safe, be clean, and always get your ingredients together before you start (so that you know you have everything!)  It was cool, and the "Angel Hair Pasta with Chicken, Broccoli, and Carrots" was tasty!  Good job, kids!

For their reward, I told them I'd take care of kitchen clean-up for the night.

Which is why I'm procrastinating and blogging right now, HA! :)

Happy Saturday!

No joke

These were the conditions for Wade's first flag football game yesterday.  Apparently the city league only cancels games if there is lightning....so they suffered through it bravely!  Hats off to the boys on Wade's Broncos team, their coaches, and the total of 7 parents who were out on the sidelines for both teams.  Everyone else stayed in their cars and honked when there was a touchdown!

Welcome to Ridgecrest, folks! 

Update on the week

It's hard to believe the weekend is here already!  This week has F-L-O-W-N by for us!

Jason finished up his birthday celebrations and then had a business trip to Tucson Tuesday through Thursday.

Rhiannon had a band trip on Wednesday and travelled to three different local elementary schools to do concerts for 4th and 5th graders.  Luckily for me, I was subbing for a 5th grade class that day and got to see the band perform--it was fun!  I love it when things work out that way.

Wade will finish up the flag football season this weekend.  He's had opportunity to show good sportsmanship on his Vikings team.  They're a younger, less-experienced team in this new division, and they've only won a single game so far, but they've come close on others.  I'm proud of Wade for playing hard every game, no matter what, often against kids MUCH bigger and older!  It's hard to keep going sometimes when you look at the scoreboard, but I think there are a lot of life lessons to learn, too.  Coach Nick and Coach Kevin are great guys who've taught Wade new skills and plays.  And, after a pep talk from his dad early in the season (I think Jason's exact words were, "Wade, all I want for Christmas is for you to get a flag!"), Wade started to grab some flags, too!  YAY! :)

Bring on the weekend!

Good day for the Cushing kids!

Good day for the Cushing kids--Wade scored a 2-pt conversion at his flag football game and helped his team to their first win, and Rhiannon nailed her Christmas piano recital (Carol of the Bells, followed by...Phantom of the Opera!) Woo-hoo!

Of course the game and recital were at the same time, so Jason and I had to divide and conquer.  He covered football, and I covered piano! :)