JBQ Meet #3

 Compass Kidz

 4 members in the top 10 for last meet and this meet. #1 and #2 spots were the same with Joshua in 2nd.

 His two 2nd place ribbons for meet 2 & 3.

Me and #2

Joshua and his team had their 3rd meet of the season today. They came in first place and went undefeated in 7 rounds of quizzing. They are undefeated all season so far. They had 2130 points as a team. The 2nd place team had 455 points. No contest. They have knowledge of the questions but aren't quite fast enough on the buzzer to interrupt and beat the A league teams. They have more than 900 points over the 1st place team in "A" league but they don't buzz in as quickly. Once they go to State, they'll be competing against A teams so they'll suffer losses then-probably. But for now they are enjoying their success as first time quizzers.

Here are the results by round:

Round 1: 290-0

Round 2: 320-0

Round 3: 310-0

Round 4: 245-60

Round 5: 330-0

Round 6: 330-0

Round 7:295-20

Amazing! While a part of me feels bad for the other teams, the other part of me knows our kids are working HARD to memorize their questions. I can't help it if the other teams don't put in the amount of time & effort to learn the questions/answers. All "B" teams are 1st time quizzers. Actually, some of them did compete in the Pee Wee league so they knew how it worked AND knew the 10 point questions.

We went out for pizza with the team afterwards. 

Hannah has her 4th meet in February. She also started theater last week so she's a happy girl.

Spelling Bee

 A quick picture from TBQ Meet #3

Hannah and her Spelling Bee trophies.

Hannah was in the spelling bee a couple days ago with our homeschool group.She came in first in her group and then had to spell against the winner of the other age group. She came in 1st in that too. She could move on to District,County, and Final (State, I think) BUT when checked out the Final date, it's the same day as TBQ State. TBQ takes precedence so we gave her spot to the 2nd place speller. I guess we could have had her go as far as she could and bow out of Finals if she made it that far but it just seemed more fair to give that spot to someone who knew they could make all the dates. Joshua is contemplating doing it next year after he saw the trophies. Hannah will be too old which is too bad because she's a great speller. 

Joshua has his 3rd JBQ meet coming up. Hannah starts theater next week. Everyone's looking forward to Grandma & Grandpa visiting later this month. I'm looking forward to seeing the Blackhawks play here in February!

TBQ Results Meet #3

God's Girlz had meet #3 this weekend. 

Here's the stats:

Team Stats:

Hannah's team (God's Girlz Grace Keepers) went undefeated at 8 wins/0 losses. Woo Hoo!! Just so you don't have to scroll back through old posts to remember their total record over 3 meets, I'll tell you they are now 22-2. They are in 2nd place overall after 3 meets. How can they be in 2nd place with only 2 losses you ask? Well, the 2 losses were to the same team who is in 1st place and that team has 195 more points than us. But 22/2 is an amazing record, dontcha think?

Hannah's sister team, God's Girlz Kingdom Seekers, went 5 and 3 at meet #3. Overall they are in 5th place with a total record of 14/10. 

There are 9 teams in the "A" league.

 

Now for some individual stats:

Hannah had 930 points on the day. She was the 3rd highest quizzer of the day. The top quizzer of the day was her team mate on the sister team and the 4th highest quizzer was her team mate! So that's 3 God's Girlz in the top 5 on the day. 

Overall, Hannah is in 3rd place for individual points with 2510 points. Her team mates are also right around her in 2nd & 4th place overall. 

There are 31 quizzers in the league.

Now she has a little over 1 month to memorize 1,2,3 John. The 4th and last meet before State is in February. 

Next up-Hannah is in a Spelling Bee & Joshua's JBQ meet #3. Oh, and Hannah is counting the days till the spring semester of theater starts. She's super excited to have 4 shows this May. FOUR!!!!

New Year's Eve Eve.

Hannah and friends had a New Year's Eve Eve party ay a friend's house. They played games and ate snacks. I played a new game with them that Hannah loves called Telestrations. Although there is drawing involved (yuck) it was still pretty funny.

Pin collection

Here's our new way of displaying all of the kids' pin (Todd's too). Now we can all enjoy them as we walk down the hall instead of them hanging on a hook or in a drawer. Uncle Fred might recognize a few he bought the kids in Hong Kong.

Christmasy stuff

 Some people do the "Elf on the Shelf". Our family does things our own way. Over the month of December, either the Hobbit Lego characters or some Disney characters got into mischief around the house. The Hobbit & dwarves are snacking on our gingerbread house while Gandalf plays Santa. They have also surrounded the pizzelles,used Todd's cell phone,climbed his phone charger,watched "their" movie, and visited baby Jesus at the manger.

 Here's some treats I made for a Veggie Tales Christmas movie party at church. Cool, huh?

 See, Woody & Sulley were playing Uno. Buzz & Woody also tried to use our phone and plunge the toilet.

 Christmas Eve day we stopped at Montezima Castle & Montezuma Well on the way to Strawberry. We got a "school day" in on this little field trip.

 Montezuma Well

Hannah and her gifts.

 Joshua and his gifts.

We stopped by the Strawberry Schoolhouse and couldn't resist a picture by the outhouse. Todd needs to go....just kidding.

Here are some pictures from December. Most of the captions tell the story. We've got 2 Bible Quiz matches this month and then a visit from grandparents.

Hannah's 14 year pictures

 #101

 #102

 #103

 #104

 #105

 #106

 #107

 #108

 #109

 #110

#111

Here they are! They're good, I know:) I put the numbers under each picture as they are on my disk. Pick your favorite (s) and tell me the # and size of each one you want. I'm deabting between 104 & 111 for my wall picture. Decisions,decisions!

Sneak Peek at Hannah's 14 year pictures

Just a sneak peek at Hannah's 14 year pictures. She had them done a few weeks ago but the photographer (who is a friend) isn't done touching them up. I picked up a cd of partially done pictures. His wife thought they were all done:) I should get the finished cd next week. This dad from the homeschool group is a professional photographer and we traded his picture taking skills for future babysitting of his kids. Beautiful?  I think "YES".

Cheaper by the Dozen part 2

 Lillian,Mrs Fitzgerald (the maid), & Miss Brill (the teacher)

 Lillian in "her" chair.

 Friends (all Bible quizzers) and their director.

 Todd & his little girl

 Some of the cast.

Here's a few more pictures from the 2nd show of Cheaper by the Dozen. This was after the long morning/afternoon of quizzing at TBQ. Hannah was exhausted afterward. We made it to an impromptu get together at In and Out Burger with some of the cast after tear down but by 11:30 Hannah asked to go home because she was so tired. The official cast party is later this week. I know there was a professional photographer at the 1st show so I hope we'll have an opportunity to buy those pictures-then I can post those. I'm sure if that happens it will be a few months before I get them.

Enjoy!

Cheaper by the Dozen-Opening Night

 Hannah's picture & bio on the cast poster

 Being silly with friends after the show.

 Hanging on the set with little brother.

 Family shot

 With Grandma

This last picture is when I took Hannah and a couple friends to go watch the other cast perform on Friday night.

Hannah performed in Cheaper by the Dozen this past Thursday & Saturday. Of course I think she was amazing. Here's a few shots from after the Thursday show. We saw the other cast Friday night. Then we had a TBQ meet Saturday AM and her last performance on Saturday night. She's sad it's over, as usual. At least she doesn't have as long to wait for the next semester as when the Spring show is over. I'm sure the first day of class will sneak up on us as it is just next month. She'll be split from some of her friends though as she's choosing the high school class. They'll be performing Godspell.

I'll get some more pictures up from the play from Saturday next.

TBQ #2

Just one picture from the 2nd TBQ match. It was a crazy day with one girl from each team needing to leave early to get to their call time for their afternoon theater performance. They had to leave before the lunch break. Here's a picture of Hannah and her team. They went 7-1 while their sister team went 4-4 on the day. Hannah is in 4th place overall after 2 meets. Three of the top 5 are God's Girlz. Joshua was an official scorekeeper for the first time. He made only a couple small mistakes-much less than some of the adults I've officiated with. 

We were at quizzing from 8:30-2 and hurried home so Hannah could shower before HER call time at 5pm. Cheaper by the Dozen pictures coming up next.