Celebrating Sophie's 11th Birthday
Well if there is one positive thing that the pandemic gave us it's Madden has joined his first competitive sport. Had the pandemic never happened I never would of met Coach Mindes who runs his own smaller competitive soccer club and Madden never would of tried out and made the team. So I don't like to to say anything positive came out of the pandemic but this is definitely one thing that did.
Madden had his first ever soccer tournament in Coachella where his team played 3 games. Being Madden's first time playing against such high caliber players he did a great job. Our team didn't have the best showing but the team is still very young and have only been playing together for a couple months. Out of the three games we only scored 3 goals and Madden happened to have 2 of the three.
He is loving every practice he gets to go to and his seeing his skills improve every week is so awesome. We are really looking forward to seeing what more Madden has in store for when it comes to soccer.
February was a big month for Skylar and Madden at school.
Madden was awarded the Citizenship Award. Here is what Madden's teacher wrote about him:
"Madden takes his education seriously and is an active participant. He is always engaged and genuinely interested in every subject we are working on. I am impressed by his wealth of knowledge at this age and his positive attitude to share it when applicable. He is a team player and will help out any peer when the occasion arises. In the old days, we called this being a "go-getter!" In Nebraska we say, "get 'er done" and that is exactly what Madden does in school. Keep up the great work Madden."
For Valentines Day this year we took the kids down to our old stomping grounds...Pacific Beach. It was a beautiful day so we loaded the bikes and my roller blades into Jakes truck and we went down to the boardwalk and rode all around the path. We all had a really nice time and Jake and I loved seeing all the old sites.
