Phoenix had a game at Castilleja School a couple of weeks ago. I rushed to get there at 5 pm and the first game was running late, again! This happened the last time I rushed to her 5 pm game. I thought it was fun to see her and Astrea comparing science notebooks/doing homework.
Her other teammates, which you can see in the back ground were watching the game of the older girls.
They finally started warm ups at 5:15 pm. You can see Phoenix about to shoot the ball on the far side of the court.
They ended up playing a good game and winning. Phoenix scored about 10 points, which was more than half of the total points. I think she was happy with her performance. We rushed to her swim practice afterwards and she managed to get in the water by 6:45 pm and swim for an hour and 15 minutes. Not bad, considering we had a 30 minute drive and the game didn't end until after 6pm!
On Thursday, I left for Windsor after getting Axel from school and dropping Phoenix off at practice. My mom, sister and I had a "girls weekend" planned. I was happy to make it there by 8:30 pm. We were able to chat a little bit before heading to bed. On Friday morning, after breakfast, we went for a hike. My mom doesn't prefer pictures, so she was protesting with a funny face. We enjoyed a nice 3 mile hike and then stopped by the store to pick up some food for the weekend. After lunch we went "thrifting" in Santa Rosa and had a blast!
This was the first time we didn't have any plans scheduled for our girls weekend, which was actually kind of fun to hang out without an agenda. So for dinner mom whipped up fish tacos and grilled sweet potatoes. We helped a little bit, but selfishly went for a short 20 minute jog/gym workout while she grilled.
Afterwards we put on silly face masks. I had never seen "masks" like this. When I purchased these I thought they were creams that hardened. It was quite the surprise to have the "ointment" on actual masks. We had a good laugh and enjoyed the relaxing day together.
While we were enjoying a relaxing evening, Keith was busy managing all of the kids Friday night. He had to get Rubix from school to take him to Phoenix's basketball game and then get them both to swim practice. Axel, luckily, found a ride home. Keith worked hard on Thursday night making posters for Phoenix's basketball game to help "cheer" her and her teammates on. He was extremely creative and made the following posters for Parshi, Zoey, Serena, Ally and Phoenix.
I was so proud of him for not only managing the drop offs/ pick ups, but to also going above and beyond by making these posters.
I forgot to mentioned that we rushed back on Friday from thrifting to watch Phoenix's 4 o'clock game. Harker live streams their home games, so it worked out well for me to be gone, but not miss her game. Here she us making a free throw.
I also took a picture at the end that shows Keith and Rubix on the court because I thought it would be fun for them to see themselves.
We had so much fun hiking on Friday morning we decided to do another hike on Saturday morning. We had planned another 3 miles hike, but it turned into a 5 mile epic climb transferring 1000 feet of climbing.
The first look out was beautiful, overlooking all of Windsor.
The second look out we couldn't convince mom to join in on the picture.
The third lookout, we have warmed up and removed our jackets.
After transferring some crazy mud we decided to turn around and head on another trail that we thought would bring us back to the start in a mile and a half. Well, as you can see from this picture, it was not a mile and a half and it was a lot of up and down!
It took us 2.5 hours to complete and everyone's knees were hurting by the end! We were glad to be done. We rested and had a nice lunch before we got ready to go to Healdsburg for more shopping and dinner.
This was lit up a pretty purple with lights, but you cannot see it in this picture. We had fun doing more Thrift store shopping before we ate out at Asahi Sushi and Kitchen.
We had delicious brussel sprouts and vegetable tempura, but the sushi was subpar. This was the only restaurant to have 4.9 stars, so we were very disappointed in our meal!
I left bright and early, about 6:30 am to rush to a swim meet that the kids were at. It was a very smooth drive and morning at the meet. We were done and headed home by 1pm, which allowed me to rush home and get Axel to the club for his exercise. I managed to make it back home and make our traditional super bowl food of giant nachos and other snacks before the superbowl started. I was a little disappointed in the blow out of a game, but we had fun as a family hanging out.
Phoenix had a great few days of creating and drew and painted many pieced of art work. She let me take pictures of the ones that she completed.
These Phoenix's will go on either side of her window. I just love what she did!
I had a lot of downtime and was able to spend time with the kids playing games. Here the boys and I were playing our favorite family game, Monopoly Deal. Rubix also helped me in the kitchen and started to learn how to cook and bake.
On Friday, Valentine's Day we went to PanIQ and broke out of "Atlantis" together. The lady working there said she was impressed at how well everyone worked together and how we didn't ask for any clues. We did have to ask for two clarifications, but otherwise we broke out of the room with 6 minutes to spare!
It was a lot of fun! Keith and I went out for lunch together and the evening and weekend was filled with swim practice and a swim meet for Phoenix. She seems to be doing better taking Zyrtec and we have discovered that she has been getting chest tightness when she is swimming hard, so we think we will start her on an inhaler. We just have to wait for our appointment with the allergist this Friday to go over her results. From what I gather, she is highly allergic to grass and some trees, which makes sense why she is always blowing her nose and sneezing.
School and work starts tomorrow after a nice 10 day break from work for me. Axel will start having track meets in a couple of weeks. So far he is doing okay running. He is having a lot of muscle soreness after trying some speed work, so hopefully his body is able to transition and the stress fractures don't dome back! We have the boys birthday parties scheduled and soccer officially starts this week. It is going to be a busy Spring with the kids doing multiple sports, but we are looking forward to longer days that arrive in less than 3 weeks with the time change! Spring is almost here!
