The last 6 months' adventures include the following:
1) Band of Brothers (Nov-Jan) & XC Season (Mar): B participated in the 8th grade Band of Brothers and a short 2 week XC season culminating with a Jamboree at Summit Trail Middle School where he CAME IN FIRST PLACE!!!!!
2) Thanksgiving & Christmas | Methow (Nov/Dec): We spent the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday at nana/papa's house for the holidays. We enjoyed one day skiing at Loup Loup with Aaron and Justin Douthey.
3) New Years Eve | Montana (Dec/Jan): We flew to Helena and spent New Years Eve up at Great Divide watching a torchlight parade on the mountain. We did a scavenger hunt around town and had a really good meal at XXX near the ski hill. There wasn't much snow so we spent a lot of time indoors playing games as well.
4) Mid-Winter Break | Schweitzer): We enjoyed skiing in Idaho for a few days over break. It was a new hill for all except dad. B and mom skied 2 of the 3 days and spent the off day in between going for a walk, playing games, reading and just enjoying some 1:1 time and good conversations. Beckett slept on the pull out and sort of had his own little room. He felt SUPER tired the last day of skiing and was practically falling asleep on the lift but was able to pull it together to rally. There was an Int'l hockey tournament going on so we watched some of that in between playing games, etc.
5) White Pass "Ski Trip" (Mar): We booked a house in Packwood w Simons in hopes of skiing a new mountain in Washington. As we got closer to the weekend, the weather warmed up to the point that it no longer made sense to even bring our skis. So we still went to Packwood and hung out and walked around the town but there was no skiing. There weren't even tickets available as there was some kind of Spring Festival happening at the mountain. We might try to go again next year. We'll see....
6) Spring Break | Scottsdale (Apr): We just returned from Arizona where we spent a week in one of Gma's RCI properties. We had a great location with a view of the pool. We spent a lot of time next to and in the pool. We went to Top Golf, toured ASU, drove by where the Chambers family farm used to be, and went to a Diamondbacks baseball game. We had Mexican food a couple times, Portillo's, Raisin' Cane's, In & Out and sushi. Beckett ran the first two morning's with his brother but then started to feel some knee pain so took the rest of the week off. We played a lot of games and enjoyed some good R&R away from home and somewhere fun, comfortable and HOT!!
Beckett is now 5'7 falling right behind his dad at 5'8 and Hudson who is 5'9. We all think he'll be the tallest and is definitely going through a growth spurt so we'll see....
He still has braces and we're hoping at each appointment that they tell us, "next time he'll be ready to get his braces off".
We're all set to sign up for driver's ed in November and just waiting for a text from I5 driving school that we're clear to register after being on the waitlist for several months. We just miss the October session by 1 week since B has to be 15 by the first day of class. But this way, it won't interfere with XC season which is probably better anyway.
Beckett continues to LOVE sweets. His diet isn't great so we're trying to rein it in a little so that he doesn't form bad habits. He still doesn't eat breakfast before school, doesn't take a lunch with him and says that he's just not hungry. He remains curious about a lot of things and asks a lot of questions which can be exhausting but I hope is a sign of intelligence. He's got his eyes on Dartmouth but that will take a lot of discipline and stellar SAT scores so we'll see. That's quite a ways down the road.
We're still occasionally playing ping pong on the kitchen table and look forward to the warmer weather so we can hopefully play more pickleball or set up our badminton set.
It's hard to believe that in less than 10 weeks our little Beckett-boo will be in high school. I think it's been awhile in coming and he's excited w a healthy amount of trepidation. It will be a big year for B. Not only will he be in high school but he'll participate in his first HS sport (XC) and get to finally be in the same school as his brother again, get his braces off and complete driver's ed. WOW, times flies.
We love you Beckett-Boo <3
Beckett's Current Favorites:
Colors: Green
Book: Beckett still detests reading..."all books suck"
Song/Artist/Genre: Country
Breakfast food: Donuts or Beignets
Dinner food: Mexican
Number: 15
Best friend/Buddies: Tommy | Jace |Rithwik | Kabran | Xavier