Spring Break

This year for spring break we went to Pompano Beach, Florida. It's a few minutes from Ft. Lauderdale, and we go there every summer. Our grandparents own two condos there, so that's where we stayed.

But before we flew down there, we visited family in Illinois. We stayed at our grandparent's house and visited two of our new cousins, Elizabeth (Elly) and Nathaniel (Nathan) on Saturday. Then on Sunday we drove to our aunt and uncle's house. We visited our cousins Cassidy and Gavin (we like to call him "G"). Cassidy loved playing with Ethan (she called him "Guy" -- no clue why) and we ordered in Thai food for dinner.

We got to Florida on Monday afternoon and left Friday morning. For a lunch/snack on Monday we got Stinger's pizza, our favorite. Then we went to Aruba's for dinner. I (Kelsey) got sesame-crusted salmon, which I LOVE! Ethan tried something new and got Seafood Alfredo.

On Tuesday we went down to the beach, looked for shells, swam in the pool and ocean, read by the pool, and got tan/sunburned! For dinner we went to Gianni's, another family favorite. We love their garlic-y rolls! I got pizza and Ethan got stuffed shells.

On Wednesday the waves we bigger so we got to do some boogie-boarding and skim-boarding. For dinner we went to Sea Watch, yet another favorite place. I was seafood-ed out, so I got a bacon cheeseburger. Ethan got a steak. Then we decided to go get ice cream from Maggie Moo's.

Thursday was our last full day, so we enjoyed our last of the warm weather. We went to Bonefish Mac's for dinner, which we'd only been two once or twice. Everybody got either a burger or a sandwich. We finished our Yahtzee tournament (we played each night) and I won! The first night I did horribly, but the other nights I got really lucky! My high score was 309. Friday we flew back and we hung out the rest of the weekend at home.

Battle of the Saints

On March 20 (Ethan's birthday!) we had the fourth annual Battle of the Saints game! The Battle of the Saints is a basketball game played by the dads from St.Lawrence versus the dads from St. Boniface, our rival school. Our dad was on the team this year, along with some of our friends' dads, plus some others. Ethan sat with the fourth grade on the St.Lawrence side, and I (Kelsey) sat with my friends above the sixth-graders. All the seventh-graders who were there and went to St.Lawrence last year stood on the St. L side. We also had some former St. B students stand with us because our science teacher was offering extra credit points for cheering for St.L (her kids go to St.L too)! Our dads got off to a rough start, but they started coming back and were suddenly winning by about ten points! They kept their lead and won 54- 39. The first year the dads tied, the next year St.B won, and St.L has now won twice in a row!!

Ethan's Pinewood Derby

A couple weeks ago, I (Ethan) had my school-wide Pinewood Derby race for Boy Scouts. My car was purple with a yellow stripe and was designed to look like a lightning bolt. Me and my dad worked on the car together. There is a practice race track that we tested our car on. I got third out of about 30 overall. Then I went to the district race.

In the district race, I got second in my heat out of eight. I won my first and second races. On the third race, I lost and went down to the loser's bracket. I won the next race and went to the championship. I raced the same person I lost to in the third race and lost to him again. During the fourth race, my car flipped over on a piece of popcorn! They had to clean off the track and redo the race. I had a good time racing and making my car.