BNG United Soccer Tournement '13

Acacia is on a new soccer team this year.  It's a team made up of girls from three different towns.  Belleville, New Glarus and Oregon.  They now play on a full regulation sized soccer field with 11 players.  This has been such a great opportunity for Acacia.  She is playing positions that for the past few years she was not able to.  They went to their first tournament and had to play up an age group (14 year olds).  They were also in a bracket of 7 instead of 4.  They came in second over all.  This was the first time some of these girls had even gone to a tournament so making it to the playoffs was a huge accomplishment.

I took a few photos of all the girls together at the award ceremony and in the soccer net.  I did not post them all here but if you want to see them click this link.  If you would like me to send you any files just let me know which ones and I'll be happy to send them to you.

Click here to see a slideshow of all the pictures of the team.

New Schools for Everyone '13

This year Acacia enters 7th grade.  Middle school!  She walks across the golf course to and from school!  She is still doing soccer, violin and the flute.  So far, even with her tween attitude she has managed to make a positive impression on her teachers and reports so far are stellar!!

Chris enters 5th grade.  In Oregon that means the Intermediate School.  He has no interest in any sport or music.  His passion remains in electronics and art.  But, he too is doing very well in all classes and is making new friends!  This is Chris' first year to have a locker.  They only get 3 minutes between classes.  This to me just does not seem possible.  But, it's working!