Thursday, December 30, 2021

November 2021 - Part 1 - Tennis, UIL, Cinderella, Disney 5K, and more!

11-2-21 Jacen was asked to move up to Varsity Tennis for the day because of injured player.  They didn't win the doubles match that you see pics of below, but he did win his singles match!!!!
11-3-21 The first part of the week I spent time at the Texas Assessment Conference with our CIS team and our District Testing Coordinator!!
11-5-21 The FMS StuCo group went to the South Plains Food Bank for a service project day!
11-6-21 I ran the Virtual Disney Wine & Dine 5K and finished with a time of 29:12 seconds!!!  Then it was time for the double tennis tournament where Jacen and Joanna played as a team!
11-8-21 Jacen signed up to participate in UIL Science where he won 2nd place!!!!
11-12-21 Family night with Chinese food and a movie!
11-13-21 Jacen participated in a tennis tournament where was excited to beat one of the 8th graders on the FMS varsity team!  He is really enjoying tennis and making lots of improvement!
His girlfriend Mackenzie won a trophy at the tournament!
11-15-21 Kyle went to a conference in Miami, so this was one of his views at dinner!
11-20-21 Jacen loves Bahama Bucks!  For dinner we went to Holly Hop Ice Cream Shop before going to see Cinderella where Jacen's voice teacher was the lead!!!!

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

October 2021 - Part 2 - Another School Play, The Addams Family, Halloween, and more!

10-20-21 Jacen standing by his StuCo Red Ribbon Week poster!
10-21-21 Jacen filling in as Horatio in another class's play because they had someone who was sick!
10-22-21 Kyle had bid over the summer for backstage passes to a Moonlight Musicals play and won, so we were able to use them for The Addams Family!!  The director Mr. Sallee was awesome at coordinating our backstage experience.  We arrived early, ate dinner, had a tour of the stage, backstage, and the booth all before the show even started.  He allowed Jacen to come up after intermission and do one of the light changes.  Then afterwards we got to get a picture on stage with the whole cast.  Then we got to go backstage again and see how a show is shut down for the night.  It was an awesome experience!!!
10-23-21 Practicing tennis with Mackenzie again, dinner at Rosa's and silliness in the car!
10-24-21 Yum Box from Indonesia and a special Halloween box where we played a game with candy from around the world!
10-26-21 Another tennis match!  This week Jacen and Gavin were partners and won their doubles match!  He also won his singles match!!!  Then he hung out with Coach Reid and Mackenzie watching the other players and then a fun double pair up with Coach Reid and Jacen against Mackenzie and Emery!
10-27-21 Halloween event at church!!!  Mackenzie came and helped Jacen hand out candy!
10-29-21 Dress up character day at school, so they went as Harry Potter characters!  Then that evening we helped with the monthly Fiesta Friday (special needs parents night out) at church where they do trick or treating, so Jacen and some friends handed out candy!  Then they played some sort of ping pong game at the end!
10-30-21 Early Saturday morning Jacen had his singles tennis tournament for the fall.  He won his first one, but lost the second match.  
10-31-21 Jacen was invited to go Trick or Treating with Mackenzie so he dressed up in his Slytherin costume from Harry Potter!
We ended the night giving him candy from us!