Go Tacos!

Emily is still playing soccer from the fall season.  Her team, the Toxic Tacos, won the Area championships today!  They already won their Region by winning all their games.  They have continued their undefeated season in the round robin tournament leading up to the championship games today.  They were both nail biters.  The other team scored first in both games but the girls kept up their attack and scored 2 unanswered goals and won 2-1 each time.  They play with such team work and are so supportive of each other.  They are a blast to watch.  Just as amazing to me is that the coaches are both volunteer college students.  Kelly and Chloe have given so much of their time and talent to help a group of girls that they had no connection to at all at the beginning of the season.  The girls found out that they will get to walk on the field of a Galaxy game some time and get cheered for their accomplishment.  They are super excited about that!

Getty Villa

Our Christmas present this year to our parents was a day at the Getty Villa.  The girls got to have a "Family Field Trip" day.  They walked to school then almost immediately got signed out.  We got the earliest reservation time that we could and it was a good thing.  What we thought would be a couple of hour thing turned out to take all day.  We went on several of the tours that were offered.  The docents were amazing.  They knew so much about their topic and were great story tellers.  They kept us all interested and taught us so much.  The first tour was the architecture tour.  We learned about what the different rooms of the Villa represented and the history of it.  The edible garden tour was a lot of fun.  John and the girls even sampled a dried berry from the garden.  Emily picked the world's largest radish.  We did a touch demonstration about the glass art with recreated pieces.  At lunch we brought out a picnic and had gourmet sandwiches.  We still had time to go back and look at a lot of the art we saw in passing on the tours and the girls got to play in the Family Forum. 

Happy New Year!

We had a fun New Year's Eve party with neighborhood friends.  What a treat to not have to drive on New Year's Eve!  The Kim's picked us up on the way over to the McCarthy's.  We brought our little red wagon along with all the stuff we had.  Emily L and Noah had a ball building Legos.  The rest of the girls did crafts and ran around doing whatever it is that 8 year old girls like to do when they are together.  Since the McCarthy's have access to New York time TV, we watched the ball drop over Time Square at 9:00 local time.  there was champagne and kisses for the adults, streamers and Martinelli's for the kiddos.  By 9:30 we were walking home and by 10:00 I was asleep!  It was a perfect night!