Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
A few weeks ago Samantha had book character dress up day and went as Pinkalicious!
She was definitely pretty in pink! She always turned in this masterpiece for the Expressions art contest.
She didn’t win anything but I thought it was great! Meanwhile, the 6th grade volunteered a Rise for Hunger to make meals…
Maxwell looks good in a hairnet!
On Saturday of President’s Day weekend we got up bright and early to drive to Auburn for the day so Maxwell and his teammates Forest could compete in the VEX State Robotics Competition. They had a 3rd teammate, Luke, but he unfortunately decided to go on a family trip that weekend instead of robotics.
We knew more of what to expect this year v. last year. The boys got their robot inspected…
completed their interview…
and then started the competitions! They had 9 different matches on the field and their robot did exactly what it was built to do each time! Can’t ask for better than that. There was some drama throughout the day with several teams getting disqualified for various things – the judges were being very strict.
Of course the spectators were good sports and found ways to entertain themselves over the 8 hours we were there!
The Gigachads ended up ranked 43 out of 75 teams. I’m very proud of them and I think they are proud of themselves! I love all that Maxwell has learned through the robotics program and glad we got to go to State again!
Mr. Roboto!
Like last year, Maxwell has been on the school’s robotics team. He built a good robot this year and, as the only 6th grader on his team, really stepped into the leader role for his team, the Gigachads!
The 6th graders in Robotics (minus Jack who bailed about halfway through the season)…
Of course Robotics is more fun when one of your good buddies is doing it too. Thankful Gray was also in Robotics at his school!
They went to all of the tournaments throughout the season and did pretty well at a lot of them.
While they came close, they never got that first or second place to automatically earn a bid to state. However, at the end of the season their skills score got them a bid! Hooray! Maxwell was pretty excited and proud, as he should be! Domo Arigato!
We had a great Valentine’s Day! The kids got some treats that morning before heading off to school…
and they all had fun at their class parties and came home with tons of candy!
I loved Spencer’s bag he made at school to hold his valentines.
I even got to be the Valentine Queen at tennis!
A LOVEly day all around!
The kids had fun class parties for Christmas. I got to go to Spencer and Samantha’s and loved getting to see them with all of their friends!
PJ day for Samantha!
School parties are fun…but being out of school for Christmas is more fun!!