Bridgette and Rooke's basketball teams were still in full swing as March started. They are both the tallest players on their respective teams, so the games typically started with Bridgette or Rooke doing the tip.
Bridgette's fan club, cheering her on during the All-Stars game, which she was selected to play in.
Meanwhile, if Rooke's not practicing or playing with his team, he's usually playing with friends in the neighborhood. This photo cracks me up! He is big, but the perspective of this photo makes him look like a GIANT!!
Teenage boys make me laugh!
March Madness family brackets (spoiler: Bridgette won!)
We celebrated Bridgette's 11th birthday!! Ryan and Bridgette have a tradition of getting cronoughts together for birthday breakfast - yum!
Bridgette wanted to go to a trampoline park as a family after church on her birthday. She held her own for a game of bouncy basketball.
Fun friends joined us for a birthday party! Girls came over for games, a craft, make-your-own-pizza, and german chocolate cake.
The science fair at Granite was better than expected. All three of the kids participated with their respective projects/experiment. Bridgette had a very elaborate Rube Goldberg machine that she demonstrated. Gretchen presented her experiment with a poster board on how much sight affects taste. And Rooke used a slideshow to explain his experiment in testing electrolytes of different energy sports drinks.
They are growing up SO fast - ah!
Catey is one of my dear friends, and Bridgette goes once a week to be her "mother's helper." Catey kindly gifted both of us a pair of these fun sunglasses for our birthdays!
Gorgeous Gretchen getting ready for a school dance! She went with a big group of girls to the dance that our homeschool co-op hosted and had a wonderful time!
Just trying to walk through the kitchen with my 6'5" son hanging on me.
Bridgette and Rooke participated in Teen Pact for the first time. Part of Bridgette's homework was to write to her senator. She took the letter seriously!
Teen Pact has a strict dress code, but nothing the thrift store couldn't help us with. Bridgette went for a one-day class with friends.
Rooke's class was four days long.
And, thankfully, with all the Teen Pact, basketball, babysitting, youth group and other activities going on . . . Kaye K and Big Daddy came for a short weekend visit and were a huge help with carpooling and cooking and bringing the fun! Kaye K gave Bridgette an Exit game for her birthday and they got to figure it out together.
What a treat to join Mom and Dad in seeing Uncle Steve perform as the lead role in "Ben Butler."
Dad had never seen the cherry blossoms in bloom in DC. What?! The three of us snuck away on Friday morning for a walk around the Tidal Basin and caught the beauty of the blooms as they were starting to blow away.
