Happy birthday to Grandma Ruth!

We celebrated Ruth's birthday on Saturday night at our house. She requested pork chops, so Matt made a delicious dinner for her! And we had cupcakes for dessert. :) The girls put together a dance and performed for her! :)

Fun with cousins

On Saturday, we hung out at the Wilkens for a bit. Morgan got to play basketball with Grayson and Hunter, while Avery helped Grandma make a cake and cookie for the Easter party the next day. Later, Morgan stuck around to help dye Easter eggs.

Friday off school

The girls had Good Friday off school. Morgan was already bored by 8:30AM, so she went with the boys to the Y to shoot some hoops.

When she got home, Milo needed some attention! He's such a baby!

Avery and her friends had planned a little Easter party where they did a "Secret Bunny" Easter basket swap. Of course, they all already knew who got their names because they are terrible at keeping secrets!

Avery got Caroline's name and this is the basket she put together for her.

They swapped baskets at Katherine and Elise's house.

Bianca brought fizzy lemonade for the girls to drink!

They also had an Easter egg hunt outside and played volleyball. Avery had a blast!

We wrapped up our Friday with piano lessons and duet rehearsal for Avery. Matt got to chauffeur Avery around, which I took Morgan to her soccer game.

Morgan's team lost 4-0... very disappointing. 75% of the game was played by our goal, so Morgan got a lot of action when she was goalie in the first half. They scored on her twice, both great plays by the other team. She had quite a few saves and defended a lot of corner kicks. We were down a few players and only had one sub. And our team was just not as fast as the other team tonight. This is our first time playing in the NPL, which is a step up competitively compared to our last season. So, we weren't expecting to win a lot. But, I think now we're just hoping the girls win at least ONE game! Ugh. Morgan and I grabbed dinner at Weber Grill on our way back into town. It was nice to spend a little one-on-one time with her! :)

When you want to play, but you are just soooooo tired!

You got clipped!

Apparently, there's a TikTok thing where kids are putting clothes pins on unsuspecting people that say "u got clipped". At Morgan's soccer tournament, we were walking into the bathroom and I noticed Avery had one of these on her ponytail. Ha!

Soccer tournament in Rockford

Morgan played on the G2011 Select team for a soccer tournament in Rockford this weekend. The G2011 team is short a few players again this season, so the G2012 girls fill in as needed. The G2011 team now has a dedicated goalie, so Morgan doesn't have to play goalie for them (which she is happy about!)

They had a game on Saturday, but Avery and I had to skip it because Avery had a dance team photo shoot. And we were also going to see Beckett in Annie, Jr. (he did awesome, by the way!). But, Matt and Morgan went and took Nora with them. They won the game and then stopped off at IHOP for dinner on their way home.

On Sunday, Avery and I came along. When we left the house, I thought it was going to be warm and sunny. Boy, was I wrong! I didn't even bring a coat. Ugh. It was cold and windy. They had a morning game, which they won. Afterwards, Morgan and I went to Jax's pub for lunch with the team. Matt and Avery stayed back at the fields. They had a restaurant there and the kids Avery was hanging with (Nora and Ellery's younger siblings) were playing the VR games.

The second game was in the afternoon. They had to score 3 goals to win the tournament since they were undefeated so far. This was the only picture I took of the games. Oops. Their team ended up scoring 4 goals and winning the game! Morgan scored one of the goals!

And wouldn't you know it, the sun came out just as their game ended and the weather turned nicer!

Cousins!

Avery went with the Wilken's to watch Beckett in Annie, Jr. while Matt and I were at Morgan's soccer game. Can't believe how much older all the kids are looking these days!