Halloween 2020

As with everything else this year, Halloween looked different in 2020 - we stayed home!  

The kids had fun dressing up, painting pumpkins, making caramel apples, and watching "scary" movies.  We "trick-or-treated" indoors - with the littles going door-to-door in our home, and older siblings generously passing out candy.  At night, we had a fire in the backyard and roasted hotdogs and made s'mores.  (Plus we had Cross Country Regionals!)

It was great day together at home, safely social distanced :)

*Sunday, we get to celebrate All Saints Day!

Camp Young Lives 2020

 August 2020, we returned to our annual family summer tradition -  Camp YoungLives!!!

(Camp YoungLives is our summer camp, at home!)

Our bigger kids have such fond memories of Camp YoungLives from years past.  This year, the big kids helped to bring this tradition of a week of crazy-fun-week-of-summer-camp-at-home to their younger siblings.  I'm so thankful for their assistance in making this week special!

SPACE CAMP!

Transforming our living room into camp headquarters - with a space station, hanging solar system, and lots of stars - we had a week of learning about our solar system and God's perfect plan.  We had lessons and puppet shows, books and coloring, silly songs and scripture memorization, space costumes, camp crafts and fun snacks, and lots of outdoor games! 

meterorite mash

stomp rockets

light sabers

glow in the dark crosses

banana rockets

hula hoops (saturn's rings)

moon walk relay

comet crafts

sticker solar system

painted stars

astronaut obstacle course

comet baseball

falling stars

camp s'mores :)

 

XC 2020 - District Championship

 

The Eagles had been underdogs all season, but after their HUGE Federal League Championship win, they had high hopes going into this District XC tournament - held on their home course.  

The course was wet and the weather was cloudy and cool, but the boys were ready to run and looking ahead to next week's Regionals.  

The top 8 teams (of 24) and top 32 individuals (of 165) advance to the Regional Tournament.

 

Cross Country running is a grueling sport, mentally and physically.  So many factors can impact an outcome - and each person goes out hoping to power through to a personal best.  Every race is different. 

 

Tesfaye has had an incredible first Division I season in Ohio.  He's been running as the second runner on the Eagles squad and his PR time has him ranked among the top 100 runners in the state.  At every varsity race this season, he's been finishing among the top 10%.   

This race was a tough one for our boy.  With so many runners on the course all pushing the pace to earn a spot at Regionals, he got caught in the pack early on and had to fight his way through 3.1 miles.  He finished farther back than he had hoped, finishing 31st overall with a time of 16:52.97 - - - which was an immediate advance to Regionals as an individual!!!  

AND, while this was first race all season with no Eagle PRs, the Golden Eagles squad finished 6th overall - - - advancing as a team to REGIONALS!!!

We are so pleased to see these boys advance.  

They've been working so hard all season and they want it!

GO EAGLES!!!