Swimming and Honor Roll

Lily has been slowly recovering from her sprained ankle and has begun to participate a bit more with her high school swim team.  She appears to be enjoying it for the most part. She was recognized for a strong swim team debut and has managed to shave some time off her entries.  She also received her report card and I am happy to report she made the honor roll again!  She's actually taking her first college-level course through Frederick Community College in her CTC program.  She had to take an entrance exam and did very well.   Very exciting!  She's maturing into a very responsible and level-headed young lady!

December download

Typically December is a time of crazy schedules, but an unexpected sprained ankle in one of Lily's early December soccer tournaments unfortunately has slowed her down.  She sprained her ankle in the last few minutes of her travel teams game sidelined her for the rest of December.  In some ways, I think she was disappointed, but in other ways, I think she welcomed the break.  She was also doing high school swim, so that got put on the back burner as well.  Her ankle appears to be doing better so hopefully, she will be able to participate in both sports come January.

Soccer Tournament Damage

Swim team photo

We had a very enjoyable and busy Christmas season.  Lily and I went to see the movie Frozen at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra.  We also went to see Wicked with Kathy and Rudy at the Kennedy Center as well.

Lily in Georgetown

The kiddos at breakfast

Kennedy Center at the holidays

We also did our first-ever gingerbread competition with Tia Elaine and Ms. Emily.  The girls against the boys (Ashton, Mr. Ernie, and Daddy.  We asked people to vote on Facebook and the girls won by one vote!

Christmas Eve, we had a wonderful party and a lovely Christmas day.  I was so thankful we were all healthy this year after last year Covid canceled our plans.  Lily had a wonderful day.  She had really wanted Burberry Her perfume and Santa Mom delivered.  Christmas night we enjoyed our typical Chinese food dinner with the Rinkes family.

The coveted perfume!

The day after Christmas Lily headed on a magical trip to Walt Disney Land in California with her friend Emery.  They had an amazing time!

When Lily came back she enjoyed a short visit with Bubby and Luis Miguel.  We spent the day down in DC.  We invited her boyfriend Raymond because it was his 17th birthday!

We spent New Year's Day catching up on sleep!  We enjoyed seeing the boats down at the Carroll Creek Promenade and today we enjoyed a hike with Abuelita and Hombre Sin Nombre.  Happy New Year!