April 2022

April 2022 

            April always includes both girls’ birthdays, so let’s just start there.  For Sarah’s birthday, she enjoyed taking a cookie cake to school and going to softball practice and enjoying ice cream with her friends.  That evening, we got take-out from Flamme Burger.  Her favorite gift was a new bike as she had gotten too big for her old one.  For Allison’s birthday, she took cupcakes to school and went to track practice.  That evening, we had Papa John’s pizza for dinner.  Her favorite gifts were softball gear, books and a makeup kit.  We had a few different celebrations as we went over to the Dodson’s for a small gathering in early April and had a party at our house the later in the month with Randy Anna, Kathy, Mark & Chris.   

 

            Sarah & Allison were asked to be flower girls in Jackie & Adam’s wedding this month.  They enjoyed the entire process of sizing their dresses, hanging out with the bridesmaids on the big day getting their hair and makeup done, and riding on the trolley to the church for the wedding.  The wedding was at the same church that Debbie and I got married at and the girls did a great job.  They enjoyed the reception and dancing the night away.   

 

            Deb had trained with other moms from school since January for a 10k in early April.  The race took place in Carmel and this is the longest distance Deb has ever run.  Despite some snow and rain during the race, she completed 6.2 miles. Afterwards they got home and enjoyed a little time in a hot-tub to celebrate their accomplishment.   

 

            We had a fun time celebrating Easter this month.  We started the day by going to mass with the Dodson’s and came back to our house for an egg hunt and breakfast.  All the girls played well together and had fun looking for eggs and dividing up the candy.  That evening, we went over to Tom & Tracy’s for a fantastic lamb dinner.  Brandon, Diane and Ben were also there and after dinner I kept looking over at Tom and he was consistently opening a new bottle of wine every 10-15 minutes, which is a sign of a really good time!   

             

Sarah’s Things of the Month  

            Sarah has been playing two sports this spring, softball and kickball.  She has had fun playing kickball with a majority of girls from the grade above her.  She has shown some significant improvement on the softball diamond this year.  She rarely strikes out and usually gets on base. When playing defense, she has caught a few pop flies and seems to know where to go with the ball in most circumstances.  She has even turned on the TV to watch college softball.   

 

Allison’s Thing of the Month  

             Allison has been running track and playing softball this spring.  Due to her birthday, she is playing on a team with several of Sarah’s classmates (Sarah was too young to play).  She is having fun being the starting pitcher and usually playing infield.  At track, she has been working on long jump and is pretty good at it once she figured out her steps and how to not foot fault.  She has also continued to participate in some basketball voluntary practices at Chatard for incoming middle school girls.  Allison also went on an over-night field trip to Camp Tecumseh with her classmates and had fun learning about how life was like for the pioneers.   

 

A few more items from this month: 

• Kathy came to town for about a week and was able to go to a kickball game for Sarah and some softball games for both girls. She took Sarah and I out to dinner at Sahm’s one evening during her visit.   
• Randy & Anna came to town for an extended weekend and were able to see Sarah play kickball and softball and Allison play softball.  Anna came with us to Allison’s track meet at Chatard.  
• I traveled to Orlando for a conference for work.  Our company operates on EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and the conference was for all of the leaders of those companies.  It was a quick trip where I left Indy on a Wednesday and got home Friday evening.