MARCH 2019

On the 10th of March, Talen had his second seizure.  It was so weird.  I'm not even sure what brought it on or why he had it.  I had been sitting next to him to try to calm him because he was a little tense.  Then all the sudden, he just changed somehow.  I hadn't been home to witness the first time he had a seizure, but the second it started I knew what it was.  I yelled for Jay to come in the room and of course, the kids followed.  We had them leave the room while Jay and I tried just held Talen and tried to talk him through it.  It probably only lasted 30 seconds, but it seemed like forever!  Afterwards, he was completely wiped out.   Other than being sent out of our room, the boys barely even noticed that something had happened.  Kennedy, on the other hand, was having a hard time with it.  I don't know if it was because it reminded her of how scary the first one was (because she was the one here helping Jay and she had to call 911) or just because she knows that the more that Talen does things like this, the more his health declines.  Either way, after a good little talk, Kennedy was much better.  It is sweet and heart wrenching to see how much love she has for her brother, especially when he is struggling.  Man, I sure love these kids of mine - and I really love how much they love each other.  

The weekend of the 22nd - 23rd was a big one for us.  Kennedy had a volleyball tournament up north and the boys had a state BMX race in Salina.  So, Cathy happily agreed to watch Talen for us so I could be with Kennedy and Jay could be with the boys.  I don't recall exactly what place Daxton took, but he didn't get a trophy, so it was 4th or less.  Carter managed to get 3rd and he took home a trophy.  The best part of their little adventure was the hotel that I booked for them.  I was just going off of the reviews that they had online.  Well, the website said that they had a pool.  But, when they got there, the pool was very different than what they expected.  It had been filled in with dirt and was growing grass!! (bad advertising, very misleading, hehehe) Between their races, they did a little exploring and managed to find some silos that had been turned into huge soda cans.  The boys thought that was pretty neat.  All in all, it was a very adventurous weekend for the boys!

The only other thing that happened in March was the letter in the mail telling us that Kennedy had been accepted into the Success program.  This is a program put on by the college/high school that will allow Kennedy to graduate with both her High School diploma and her Associates Degree.  You could say that we were all really happy that she got in!!  (It was a lottery draw, so we were thrilled when we got the news!)  I am so glad that Kennedy is so aware of her future and doing everything now to try to set herself up for success.  Love our KiKi!! 

Kennedy's 3rd GSL Tournament

   This weekend, Kennedy, Whitney Thomas, and I went to Kennedy's 3rd GSL Volleyball Tournament (but it was the first one that I have been able to go to).  This one was a 2 day tournament so it worked a little differently than the previous 2.  On Friday, they played a pool play of 4 teams - so they played 3 games.  The results of Friday will determine where they are in the pool play on Saturday.  Then after the pool play on Saturday, that determines if they are in the gold, silver, bronze, or copper tournament.  Anyway, on Friday Game 1, they won both the first (25 to 6) and second (25 to 20) set.  In Game 2, they split the sets - winning set 1 (25-19) and losing set 2 (24-26).  They only play 2 games per team, so if there is a tie, they go to points - which means that Kennedy's team won!  In Game 3 they again won both set 1 (25-7) and set 2 (25-13).  In the first set of Game 3, Kennedy honestly served the last 11 points, mostly aces!  The best part of Friday was between games when Kennedy's team was in charge of ref-ing for the other games.  Kennedy was the line judge and she was so bored that she decided to make it entertaining my "over-exaggerating" her calls - it was hilarous!!  Oh, I forgot to mention that my parents drove down to watch her play too.
   The results were pretty descent for Kennedy's team, but I was a little disappointed because I thought that they would have been better.  Granted, Kennedy said that they were playing really bad this tournament, but I was still not very impressed.  Not it Kennedy though, I thought she was doing great.  However, she has less playtime this year than she had with SUVA.  Guess that's what happens when you change teams and coaches.
   On Saturday, Game 1 Set 1, Kennedy again did awesome at serving and earned the last 7 points for her team (25-19).  Set 2 was another win for Kennedy's team (25-22).  Game 2 was against another GSL team from the Salt Lake area.  They won Set 1 (25-20) and Set 2 (25-9).  The other GSL team was not very good and Kennedy's team really didn't start even playing them until the second set.  Now I am not sure what happened at this point, maybe the girls all ate too much lunch or something, but Game 3 was TERRIBLE!!  They were finally playing against a good team, but they could have easily competed if they would have stopped making such ridiculous mistakes.  They lost Set 1 (6-25).  Now I must mention that it doesn't help when the coach won't sub in players when the ones on the court are obviously not having a great day.  (But that's what happens when the ones who aren't doing well are the coach's daughter's best friends!)  Anyway, Set 2 wasn't much better, they lost again (14-25).  This is where things got a little crazy.  Me, Whitney, and two other mom's of girls on Kennedy's team where just sitting there chatting.  For no reason at all, Kennedy's coach walked over to us and says, "Well, I can honestly say that all your daughter's sucked that game!"  I was flabbergasted!  Who says that??  Granted, her coach is hot headed and she was mad that they lost, but that was totally uncalled for.  But the craziest part about the whole this is that the three of us that she was reprimanding are the 3 whose daughters where not even on the court the majority of the game.  In fact, one of the girls didn't make it onto the court at all that game-either set!  It was just ridiculous.  And honestly, if I didn't need Kennedy's coach to carpool her to and from practice, she would have gotten an earful from me, but I need her help, at least for the rest of the season.  I'm still hoping that one of the other two mom's say something to Warren (the owner of GSL), but that's just me being spiteful.
  Anyway, Kennedy's team ended up in the Silver tournament (which was probably good because they would never have lasted 1 game in the Gold tournament).  Anyway, for the Tournament, it is single elimination.  Kennedy's team replayed one of the teams that they had played on Friday and again, they won both sets (can't recall the scores, but the other team only made it to about 15 points on both set 1 and set 2).  The next time they played was the final game for the Silver bracket.  Kennedy's team won (again, I don't remember the scores, but the other team was just about like the first, only scoring 15 or so points).  So, they ended up with the win - another Silver medal.  It was a long weekend, and a long drive home, but it was fun spending time watching Kennedy play and chatting with the girls all the way home.     

Kennedy channels her inner Dwight

Kennedy was trying out one of the face mask things that she got for Christmas, but all I could think of when I saw her was the episode on "The Office" where Dwight Schrute cuts out the face of the dummy and puts it on his face.  I think she nailed it!! hehehe