What a good boy!

I saw that if you put a picture in Chat GPT, it will change it to look like it's from Polar Express. So, I tried this out with a picture of Milo. It turned out so cute!

Six

We went into the city on Friday night to see Six the Musical. We grabbed dinner at The Marq before the show. The food was good and we got in/out in great time.

Avery was showing off her manicure at dinner... she did this herself - so cute!

We were in the mezzanine section in the first row, which was great.

We all loved the show! I'm glad we made the trek to the city!

(Just for future reference, we had Mezzanine-Right-Aisle 12-Row A - Seats 10/12/14/16)

State Finals

Morgan's team played in the consolation bracket on Thursday night for 3rd and 4th place. They let the girls out of school early at 2:30, so we could get on the road. The last 30 minutes of our drive was in snow! My Dad was able to come to the game because he was heading up to Downers Grove for the weekend to help Ross out with the boys while Erin was in Rochester.

I didn't get many pictures, but here are the girls warming up before the game.

In the second half, Morgan got taken out by a girl on the other team. She hit the ground hard! The refs called it a flagrant foul and Morgan got to shoot two free throws by herself. She was able to shake it off and move on with the game.

The girls couldn't pull off a win, but finished in 4th place in the state for 4A 7th grade. Such a great accomplishment and so proud of how hard these girls worked! A lot of these girls have played together before on their travel teams, but this was the first time Morgan has played with most of them.

The drive home was a little dicey! For most of the way, it was snowing hard straight at us and there was snow on the highways! It had snowed the whole time we were in the gym. We made it back to Downers Grove, where it hadn't even snowed at all. Go figure!

I'll just lay right here

Avery was sick and relaxing on the couch and Milo just came up right under her feet and laid down! Good thing she saw him or she might have stepped on him! :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

 

State Championship - Round #1

As I mentioned, the Herrick 7th grade girls basketball team made it to the State Championship this year! We are in division 4A. IESA Sectionals (7-4A) The top 8 teams played on Saturday, December 6th. We drove down in the morning (a little over 2 hours) and grabbed a quick lunch at Panera before heading to the Morton Junior High School gym. My parents drove up from Rochester to watch the games.

Even Twinkle Toes was cheering for Morgan! :)

Herrick played against Mahomet-Seymour at 1:00 for their first game. The girls were really nervous!  They were making silly mistakes and rushing things. This was their first truly tough game and it took them a little time to adjust. Morgan ended up playing almost all of the game, except for the last 45 seconds. She was tired! They ended up winning 20-13, so they got to move on to the next round.

We watched a little of the game after theirs because that determined who they would play next. Then, we met up with the rest of the team at a nearby place called Season's Gastropub for some food.

Herrick's second game was at 6:30 that same day. They played against Washington Central. Morgan got to be a team captain for this game! :)

This was a really tough game and the girls just could not pull ahead. They started off really bad and got down 21-7 at halftime. This is by far the hardest team they have played all year. They did manage to get back within 5 points (26-21), but that was short-lived. They lost 38-26. It was disappointing.

Morgan loved that Grandma and Grandpa could come to the games!

They made these plaques for the girls to have as a souvenir.

We head back to Morton on Thursday night for the 3rd place game against Mt. Zion. Good luck girls!

(Oh and they are wearing the old Herrick uniforms that have the numbers centered on the front, so no technical foul this game - yay!)

Spartans team picture