Lyla Turns 12

On March 8th, we celebrated 12 years of Lyla!  I can’t even believe that we’re a year from teenager with this one.  Time has flown by, but she’s still our sweet, funny, active girl.  On most days you can find Lyla wanting to play outside, hunting for snacks, possibly sneaking candy, heading off to soccer practice, spending her game time limit on Roblox, and asking for a horse.  There’s rarely a dull moment with her around.  She keeps us laughing and sometimes raises our blood pressure, but she is always an irreplaceable part of our family who is loved so much!

Even though her birthday was on Daylight Savings Time, she was till up early and ready to open presents first thing.  Her soccer team was in a local tournament that weekend, so we let her open gifts and have her special breakfast of donuts and scrambled eggs before she had to leave for the game.

 

Later that evening we got to celebrate her birthday some more.  It’s a tradition to have Uncle Bo over on 3/8 as it’s his birthday as well.  We always enjoy celebrating these two together.  

The tournament was a tale of two completely different weather days.  Saturday was very cold and windy for the team’s first two games.  Sunday was warm and sunny, but since they didn’t play in the final, we only had one game on Sunday.   We didn’t know then what we would later develop in the days that followed, but with COVID-19 shutting down all activity, this tournament was the first of their games for the spring season, and their last for at least the next month (hopefully not longer). I’m hoping the spread of the virus will slow with all the “social distancing” but we will certainly miss our activities.  Sadly, Indoor Nationals was canceled for track as well which was very disappointing for Nina.  She was scheduled to participate in hurdles and high jump, and while it was very upsetting for her, the obvious concern about the safety of thousands of people holds priority.  These things are disappointing, but if activity restriction helps to slow the pandemic, it will be well worth it in the long run!