Basketball games today

Today Jaydn and Kole had their Basketball games. Jaydn's team had not won a game yet this season and they were getting anxious. He plays with all fifth graders except he and one other boy who are sixth graders...and most of the other kids have not played ball before. Today they stepped up their game and brought home a win!!! Jaydn scored 8 of their 25 points! He was playing some really heavy defense and shut down the other teams drive almost every time. Way to go Jaydn! Kole's team won their game as well, I should say they literally killed the other team, poor boys only got one basket in the whole game, not for lack of trying. Kole put in two baskets of the 40 points scored, every teammate got at least one basket this game, they really showed good team work.

Leavi went to a friends house today where they practiced for their quartet ensemble. They are playing Hungarian Rhapsody by Brahms. It is quite difficult, the timing is off for 2 of the girls so they have to remember to come in on the off beat. It slows down and speeds up a lot and is 8 pages long. Leavi has her part memorized now as do the other girls, it is now a matter of fine tuning for them. The performance will be March 1st. I will try to get a recording of them together, they also love to play Carol of The Bells and a couple others so maybe we will get an "album" of sorts.

Robert and I settled on plans for our chicken coop and beehives today and now that that is done we can proceed with the construction. Come summer we should be beekeepers and egg handlers! Our neighbor has tons of fruit trees so we are setting the hives close to his property so he can reap the benefits of our natural pollinators and we can get some top quality honey. We are going to involve the children and have them in charge of extracting the honey and bottling it. Maybe they can sell the extra and earn some college money?