Saturday, October 31, 2026

Halloween weekend!

Halloween is here!  Yesterday Anna came home from school and we went to the high school football game and she was very excited to see friends!  And Matt and Mason headed to Rancho Santa Margarita for a volleyball tournament on Saturday!  Today we did some errands to get things she needed and she carved her pumpkin so we had pumpkins from all the kids!  Can you guess who carved each?
And in a sweet surprise, Anna saw what I was wearing and we twinned!  From the same shirt and jeans, to pink ribbon pins, pony tails, and black sneakers!  Love our girl!  
Mason's team played really well and he got 9 aces!  Yes 9!!!  Here is a fun video mix of them!

He didn't just get aces, he had a lot of great play!
And they had this really great rally!  
There is a little break in travel for a few weeks for volleyball which will help the team to keep working together to get ready for the next one, this time in the bay area!

And here is the team photo before they headed home!

Matt and Mason got home in time for dinner and we ate together (my favorite!) and handed out candy!  Olivier and Sirena dressed up!

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Keeping up the busy weekends!

This weekend was another busy weekend for the boys with the high school band competing in Anaheim which made for the first overnight trip for the band since 2015.  And Mason had another club volleyball tournament.   

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Exciting Long Saturday!

Yesterday we took a road trip!  Olivier (and the school band) performed in a parade competition in Selma which is close to Anna in the morning.  She met us (Matt, Mason and I) while we cheered on Olivier and the parade block!  We were super impressed by their drum majors salute and how great they did with their march and music.  Olivier is in the second row and is the second one in!  I kind of like how these photos ended up being almost like a flip video of images.   











And here is a video of them!
After the parade we said hi to the band and headed to lunch.  Anna then showed Mason around campus, and he got to pet a few horses.  This one seemed to like Mason!
We then headed over to watch the field show competition!  They did great and we really love how you can tell they continue to work on it and are getting better and better!
It was a great day cheering on Olivier and spending time with Anna!  We all were very tired and thankful for a good nights sleep!

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

I spy Cheese!

Cheese was being silly tonight and was hanging out in the sleeve of Olivier's sweatshirt!  

 

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Make your own parents weekend!

This weekend was supposed to be parents weekend and that got cancelled (hopefully just postponed to the spring) but Matt kept his plans to see Anna!  And they started off by doing mosaic art projects!  


When they were done with phase 1 of their projects they headed to the stadium!  
It was a great game!  Fresno lost but I think it was much closer than expected!  And they got to see a drone show after!  
On Sunday they finished their projects!
The finished projects!

First tournament of this club season!

This weekend Mason had his first club tournament of the season.  It is always a bit of an unknown because the team has changed a bit from last season and they shuffle the roughly 150 around to see how they should rank.  The first three games were in Seal Beach on Saturday afternoon.  

I am glad I got this photo of him setting and up in the air!
Early Sunday morning we made the rainy drive down to San Juan Capistrano for the next three games.  The gym had a strange layout and I had this view of Mason when he was getting ready to serve.
Here are a couple of his serves!

Finished with a really solid win!  Should be a great season!