2nd Place, U12 Indoor Soccer League

The Flames girls team came in 2nd tonight out of 11 teams in their division. Madison's team won the semi-final game 5-0 tonight but lost against Middlebury in the championship with a score of 1-0. We dominated the whole game, one mistake cost us a goal though. Shucks! Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. : ) Her team has lost too many championship games over their years of soccer. They did get a huge team trophy though... the girls quickly decided the Lucchese family should try and display it at their restaurant and Gabby's parents graciously said they would find a place for it. Lucky them. The girls got silver medals. They played really well and have nothing to hang their heads about. (How do you like this intense parent picture? haha) Another Indoor season comes to a close....

Basketball Games

This afternoon Quinn played 2 games at the Sports Center. We won 1 and lost 1. We were happy with that because they tend to lose more games than win. He is number 5 in these pictures. He hustled a lot and I even managed to catch a really nice shot of his on video. I need someone to show me how to post a video on Blogger. : )

Sorry to be on a blogging drought lately. There hasn't been much going on other than Sports Center basketball and soccer for both of the kids. I know that is 4 teams going right now but it just hasn't seemed as busy. They each practice only one night a week. Indoor soccer is over for Quinn now. They have played at 7am or 8am each Saturday morning. His team lost in overtime in the tournament yesterday. Madison's soccer tournament is coming up next weekend. Her team has won all except 1 loss and 1 tie. Hopefully they will do well in their tournament. We've enjoyed a much more relaxing pace in January and February. I really enjoy winter. I know I'm in the minority but I enjoy the beautiful snow and am thankful for a cozy home in the evenings.

Have a good week everyone!

6th Grade Girls Basketball

Madison has been playinging on a 6th grade basketball team at the Sports Center this winter. They usually play 2 games on a Saturday and the season lasts just 4 Saturdays I think. The girls are from both Elkhart and Concord schools and are made up basically of her friends, or friends of friends who are now her friends too! (Was that enough of the word "friends" in one sentence?). In the bottom right picture, she is guarding Taylor. Madison and Peyton have grown up with Taylor at church. She is a very good basektball player. We lost this game by 1 point, when Taylor made a free throw with 6 seconds left. Madison is a very good "scrappy" player. I bet she had 15 steals or tip aways during these 2 games. She is fun to watch! Even though we don't win a lot of games, it's fun to watch the girls improve each week.

ISSMA Band Contest

Last Saturday Madison and her good friend Alexa (and the rest of the Beginnning Band) took their "March Time" song to the ISSMA (Indiana State School Music Association) contest which was hosted at Elkhart Memorial High School. It was a several hour long process for a 3 minute long song. They were happy to get gold medals. In the process, we heard some pretty amazing muscians! It was for all school age kids. The highschool students are amazing!