Our March was jam-packed with activities. And I took so long trying to write up our mid-month vacation that April is nearly over before I’m posting about March!

Maya on the soccer field

Maya and Ian both started their spring soccer seasons. Maya is on the same team she’s been with for the past two seasons. The coaches are funny and patient and overwhelmingly positive. Maya’s teammates are likewise a good group of kids. We are very fortunate.

Soccer Ian

Ian is trying out a new team. Last season’s team were like a well-oiled machine, and it often seemed like a machine that Ian didn’t fit into very well. This new team I think is working out better. The kids’ experience level is closer to Ian’s and so they’re kind of all developing together.

Ian practices one might a week, Maya two nights a week, and they both have games on the weekends. Between that and their instrument lessons and practice and the after-school groups they’re both involved in (on different days, of course), it seems sometimes we do little more than whatever activities they’re wrapped up in.

Ian – 2nd grade – spring

Maya and Ian had school photos in early March. This time, like during the pandemic times, they took photos outside. I love having their photos out in natural light and again I think they turned out so nicely.

Maya – 4th grade – spring

I have been having some progressively worse pain in my lower back, honestly for the past couple years. Finally, I have gone to see an orthopedist about it, and sure enough, an x-ray showed disc degeneration. The first thing to do is physical therapy and assuming physical therapy doesn’t fix it, then we do an MRI to see what other options there are. So, add to the soccer and the music and the school things a once a week visit at the office for PT and daily 45-50 minute PT sessions at home.

We all breathed a little sigh of relief when it was time to go on our spring break vacation to sunny Los Angeles, California wherein amongst many other things, Sean got to take us to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure! We have possibly too many photos and I certainly spent WAY too many words describing our trip, so that’s all in a separate post, which can be found here (and there are sub-posts within *that* to separate out the Disney madness).

Tolerating our photos, as usual

After vacation, we dove immediately back into our crazy schedule, but we did manage to carve out a little slice of time to go take photos of the kids in the bluebonnets. The wildflowers were absolutely incredible this year. Presumably because we had a decent amount of rain this spring even seeds that laid dormant during last year’s horrible drought managed to germinate. It was quite the showing.