We started this month with picking up Kaylee's new glasses. Celebrated Millikan's amazing orchestra, band, and choir students at Music in the Air concert. Headed down to San Diego for the first of two competitions this month. Girls did amazing and had fun with the 70's funk theme. The Sklenicka's were even able to come up and cheer the girls on. The next day Clara and Paige came over for some movie making fun!
Cienna had an English project that required her to choose a major and interview someone within that profession. She chose Political Science and got the opportunity to interview one of Long Beach Mayor's advisors. They invited her to tour City Hall, the Mayor's office, and interview in the Mayor's main conference room. Such a cool opportunity she will never forget. Nailed the essay by the way!
After practice one night, within a couple of hours, the girls choregraphed and submitted a video to the the Y Nationals host team with hope of being selected to perform at opening ceremonies. Unfortunately they weren't selected, but the video turned out great and they had fun. Especially with the limited time they had.
Memorial Day weekend started off with replacing our 20 year old garbage disposal and that Sat. night we got to enjoy another LA Galaxy game thanks to the the Bakx and Stone's club soccer team. As expected, the Galaxy lost, but still great times with great friends.
Sunday we had ONE of THREE Kaylee birthday parties. She invited her besties Nicki and Adi over for a sleepover but started the day at the Weiner dog races in Huntington Beach. Definitely a unique experience to say the least. Nala (Cobi and Brie's Weiner) and Freya (the Bakx's Weiner) competed and did great especially just being pups. It was fun to see how everyone got so excited to watch Weiner's race. I'm giggling just writing this paragraph :)
After the race, we headed to the Bakx house for a quick swim before picking up Olive Garden for dinner. We finished the night with ice cream cake, movies, and TP'ing Jack's house. The next morning (Memorial Day), the girls had breakfast and more fun "bike-sledding," swimming at Roger and Lisa's, and laying out on the roof. We finished the day with a family Kan-Jam tournament and prepped ourselves for another busy week.
We were double booked that next Thursday night and had to split the time between Kaylee's Music Awards and Cienna's high school gymnastics banquet. The next day mom and dad brought Jamba Juice and Subway to the 7th grade lunch on the lawn for Kaylee and cheered her on as she received an award from her peers.
That weekend Kaylee completed another KiwiCo project projecting a laser that danced around with sound (so cool and thanks Poppa) while Cienna went off to her friend Julia's birthday party sleepover. They got "some" sleep before both heading off to competition number two in San Diego. This one (Y State) was a late one and started at 6:30pm on that Sunday night. Needless to say, we all wished we could have slept in the next day but it was on to work and school.
During the week, there was a senior ceremony where everyone celebrated Izzy and Alex as graduating seniors from gymnastics. We know they will do amazing things as they move on to college and pursue their careers. If there's one thing gymnastics teaches you it's how to be strong and never give up. Mom and dad ended the week hanging with friends at the Adam's house before starting another crazy weekend's of parties.
Saturday afternoon was number TWO of THREE Kaylee birthday parties where her gymnast friends all got together at the gym and had a nerf battle. Mom and dad laid out plenty of food and kept the nerf blasters loaded as they chased each other around the gym. The party completed with "do your best jump into the pit" and a baseball game on the floor. The next day prepped the house by moving cars, putting out games, and setting up for party number THREE. It started with Kaylee's friends meeting at the house, transporting them to Shoreline Village in Long Beach where they spent an hour trying to solve all the clues to "escape" in a mobile escape room. We ended back at our house for games, cake and a chocolate fountain we borrowed from the Ferrarios.
That week we celebrated Porter's 12th birthday, the last day of school which was also Kaylee's birthday - complete with Starbucks, Togos, and a pretzel, and the Nationals pre-party at the gym. That weekend, the Marshmans had the parents participate in a game night. The girls had some fun re-arranging Kaylee's room before we all headed off to Alex's and Annie's High School graduation parties. A little bit of VR and daddy attempting to do Cienna's hair before heading for the day at the Baxk for Father's day BBQ, pool party, cornhole and finally jamming in the garage with JB on drums, Roman on lead guitar, Franklin on bass, and daddy on the mouth harp!
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Stay tuned...up and coming after all that is a trip to Ohio for Gymnastics Nationals and Costa Rica with Poppa and The Marty's!
