Walkout

Amity's participating in the "Girls Can Club" with the UVA Women's Soccer team. Terrible name, but awesome program where she gets tickets to all of the home games and the opportunity to walk out with the players before most weekend afternoon games. She also was paried with a mentor player who she got to hang out with after a game and also have lunch with. I negelected to get a proper picture of her with Kira, so instead here's a screen grab from her first walk out. Standing behind her in red is Laurel Ivory (Amity's goalkeeping idol), and we expect to see Laurel as well as some of the others in the NWSL in the very near future. Pretty great that Amity will have "known them when."

First Day of School: 6th and 11th

And we're back! Z's off to their junior year of high school, making this the penultimate back to school post for them of the K-12 era. I suppose I could ask them to send us a pic once they're off to college, but we won't dwell on such things right now. Meanwhile Amity's getting her first opportunity to actually middle school it up, i.e. she'll get to change classes and have different people in each of her classes... something that she missed out on entirely since she was cohorted for the previous school year.